Moneysaving PC Setups

cyberbob

Aliktren wrote: »

I, I have used Linux and it's just not for me,

I know you don't want to talk about linux on your PC but just wanted to point out that saying you don't like linux is a rather silly statement. Its on the same level as saying I don't like sweets when in fact you just dislike boiled sweets but love chocolate

There is really no such thing as just linux there are lots of differnt forms of linux (distros) each one very different for different reasons.

If you dont want to use a linux distro fine but you can't really give a blanket statement that you don't like it unless you have tried all distro's

busenbust

Agree. Linux distributions come in all flavors nowadays. Ubuntu often gets very good reviews by experts - and novices

busenbust

Very nice thread this

computershack

cyberbob wrote: »

I know you don't want to talk about linux on your PC but just wanted to point out that saying you don't like linux is a rather silly statement.

No it isn't. They don't like it and its a perfectly reasonable statement to make.

Its on the same level as saying I don't like sweets when in fact you just dislike boiled sweets but love chocolate

My son is autistic. He doesn't like any sweets of any kind. No different to the OP's view on Linux.

There is really no such thing as just linux there are lots of differnt forms of linux (distros) each one very different for different reasons.

If you dont want to use a linux distro fine but you can't really give a blanket statement that you don't like it unless you have tried all distro's

Rubbish. All Linux distros share one common thing - lack of hardware support, poor power management, lack of mainstream games, lack of a cohesive constant GUI and keyboard shortcuts across all applications in a distro and the need to use CLI.

computershack

busenbust wrote: »

Agree. Linux distributions come in all flavors nowadays. Ubuntu often gets very good reviews by experts - and novices

Only because they either:

1) Don't know better
2) Its the best out of a bad bunch.

Ubuntu might be "quite good" but it has a lot of issues which seem to increase due to Mark Shuttleworths obsession with 6 month releases. Quality control in Ubuntu has gone down the toilet in the last two years. Only 4 months to wait to see what the next release breaks.

spaceboy

I use:

Foxit Reader
WinRAR
Avira AntiVir Personal
Photofiltre
Foobar 2000
CCleaner
Burrrn
ImgBurn
uTorrent

spaceboy

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

Theres a website, which for the life of me I can't remember, that would hold all the useful program installers, so upon a reinstallation you could install all your useful programs in a sort of windows update type fashion... Gimme a minute.

Edit - Found it!

http://ninite.com/

Will it give you the UK version of Firefox?

busenbust

computershack wrote: »

Only because they either:

1) Don't know better
2) Its the best out of a bad bunch.[sic.]

Ubuntu might be "quite good" but it has a lot of issues which seem to increase due to Mark Shuttleworths obsession with 6 month releases. Quality control in Ubuntu has gone down the toilet in the last two years. Only 4 months to wait to see what the next release breaks.

Poppycock! :rotfl:

computershack

busenbust wrote: »

Poppycock! :rotfl:

Smileys noted. Well we did quite well this time around. 8.10 broke Windows network browsing and prematurely killed hard drives. 9.04 broke Intel drivers which was a big problem for 90% of the laptop users. They didn't do that this time but instead broke 3g dongles which again, is a problem for a great many laptop users. However, this time they also used EXT4 as the default filesystem which has known data loss issues with large file movements.

bat999

busenbust wrote: »

Very nice thread this

Not any more it isn't.
It's morphed into another 'Linux sux' thread.
Boring.:cool: