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Comment on Linux Is Too Much Hassle by gunja

gunja — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:56:27 +0000

Weird this story in some ways, as I have been struggling like hell to install windows over USB to a PC (the CD don’t work for some reason with the windows CD I got).
Faffed round for hours trying to get it to work, and gave up and shoved Vista on. Well this took forever for the updates (over 12 hours of windows updates, on a 50mbit net connection). Eventually got there, but getting latest software, etc is a PAIN in the arse.

I have installed Linux a few times on the same box, (debian and ubuntu), and boy is it so much quicker and easier, all software kept up to date with apt (ALL software, not just the OS), and it supports my scanner, and webcam (which the latest versions of windows dont (Vista and 7 64bit)!) I am soooo close to dropping Windows 7 on my main PC for debian or ubuntu, but it’s just using Libre/Open Office I’m scared of (not that I do much with them), and getting used to the Gimp instead of Photoshop, otherwise the mail clients integrate better with google (for contacts), and other bits and bobs.

Yes your experience with old hardware is true, and probably the case, but saying “Linux is too much hassle”, probably needs to be changed to “Linux is too much hassle for older hardware”. Christ I’ve just shoved 2 2.5TB harddrives in a linux box, which some windows versions can’t handle! I would suggest that with newer hardware, linux is actually easier than windows in a lot of cases, and is up2date from install! Getting used to some of the apps (Gimp/Libre office in this case), might take some time, but only cos your used to something else… My dev tools are all available in linux…

Though after saying all that, when I make the switch I wonder if 2 months later I’ll still be using Linux as my main OS, time will tell!

Comment on Linux Is Too Much Hassle by admin

admin — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:27:43 +0000

Its irrelevant if MS or Apple offer a USB system thats comparing them to Linux, I didnt once do that. What i was getting at was it could be easier to do it that having to type commands into a console, it wasent, their failure at user experience MS and apple dont come into the equasion.

Yea thats the prob it became dormant which is pretty much as good as useless ongoing.

I’m sure stuff works on windows and not on linux as visa versa, to be fair its not really all that legacy if its a 3 year old laptop, you’d expect that would be covered in most driver packages. I was getting at how complicated it is to try and rectfy such a problem and even when its sorted, its not sorted owing to performance issues … … = hassle. I’m not saying its not a great OS etc etc i’m saying if you install it and there is a problem its not worth the hassle if ye not a linux pro.

Comment on Linux Is Too Much Hassle by David

David — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:40:11 +0000

OK, so a basic knowledge of maths & probability will allow you to deduce who will comment on this post.

OK so you had fun with the whole USB set-up, but how would you install any other OS on the laptop? Does MS provide USB installers for any version?

The advantage of a highly tailored distribution for a hardware platform is that it (should) do everything with ease. And after you installed it it did, however the support for the distribution finished when the project became dormant. This is a problem with a very platform specific distribution, perhaps a standard Xubuntu offering might be easier as that is still supported and should manage the network etc…

All I can say is I have some legacy hardware that you can’t use with the latest versions of windows due to no support which still works with modern Linux distributions.
Look at apple and removing the “Rosetta” feature in the latest OS X (making people have to buy the latest versions of many applications that they have used for years).
I’m not saying Linux is better in this sense, I’m saying that these things are problems in all OS/hardware environments. Legacy hardware is always a problem.

“become a bearded sweaty Linux guru” <- I have known you to be two of these :-p
I on the other hand believe I am two of those (Note I haven't had a shave lately and work with Linux ).

Comment on BMI is Bollocks by Bex

Bex — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:58:58 +0000

The BMI thing winds me up – everytime a TV doctor mentions it, I want to stab people…

Comment on World Eaters Rhino by Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:57:28 +0000

Very impressive. How long did this take you to put together?

Comment on World Eaters Army Tour by admin

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:55:17 +0000

correction, 2 daemon princes.

Its not that beardy, very few troops so all they have to do is hunker down on objectives.

Comment on World Eaters Army Tour by Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:56:29 +0000

Two land raiders, a defiler, and a daemon prince in a 1,500 point army. Your opponents are going to just LOVE that.

Comment on 118118 – Got your number, you’v also got my money too! by David

David — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:42:07 +0000

I have a Samsung Galaxy, 5 mega-pixel camera. Small form, touch screen, Android. I’d recommend it as a smart phone. If you have no issue with google owning all your life.

Comment on Malteser Addiction by weezy

weezy — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:40:47 +0000

yo seriously i got it the worst if i dont have at least 3 packets everytime i visit the convenience store and i do that at least 2 times a day i cannot sit im actually in this new craving for em where i gotta melt them a lil then eat em just ups the enjoyment 10 fold( sorry folks if u were plannin on quittin dont taste em melted)

Comment on Malteser Addiction by admin

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:40:12 +0000

haha yea, there is something about them that just makes you want to eat more and more… kinda like the chocolate version of pringles!