Linux users of MSE

Richie-from-the-Boro

weegie.geek wrote: »

Ubuntu and Debian on various remote machines, VPS and dedicated. All windows at home though. They both have their place, but this thread will descend into fanboyism no doubt.

- Go to a party get sat next to that reall ll ll lly boring sod, no one knows him, no one wants to know him, sad.

- Truth of the matter when he's left the party he knows he has to find somewhere new, he won't be welcome there any more.

So jimmy~no~friends posts a sad-sac question here to try to find a new friend in a new area where no one knows him, but does so in the same old boring evangelical way and guess what happens.

I use Linux every hour of every day and as ' weegie.geek ' says they have their place, in fact Linux is priceless I would be lost without it. Linux Fly's [ like Mac users ] trawl the interweb in droves looking for a thread where they can slither under the radar to preach, and convert others, but all fly's attract others.

In this case he gerrymanders a thread in a group which caters for people who are ' self confessed ' non-computer-literate on Windows.

I make no apology to the group for my response, if you can't make a PnP windows work for you and your kids, you won't be able to use Linux.

As Captain Mainwaring said,

Stupid Bhoy

fermi

Mandriva on this laptop and ubuntu on the other.

gaming_guy

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kabayiri

As PCs and laptops have become more powerful, I can't really understand why virtualisation hasn't become a more mainstream item.

Admittedly for my job, I mostly use debian or ubuntu on the desktop, but there is always a windows session running in a virtual machine.

You tend to become platform agnostic then. I use whatever feels right at the time. The ability to pick up the Virtual Machine and move it to another machine is also useful.

I've no problem with people who prefer Windows or Mac OSX, but we have all come across the type of person who will slag off Linux/Windows/OSX mainly on the basis of what they have heard from others / read online. This reflects a closed mind in my view. Much better to have an open mind and embrace and try new ideas.

fermi

kabayiri wrote: »

As PCs and laptops have become more powerful, I can't really understand why virtualisation hasn't become a more mainstream item.

I have a couple of Windows VMs set up to use if need be on this laptop. Very easy to do nowadays.

They are often used though.

Owain_Moneysaver

Ubuntu and Xubuntu here.

Windows started getting more complicated about the same time as Linux started getting easier, I think they're about even now.

A friend is getting trained up on using a PC For Beginners, on xubuntu, and complained that the computers in the library were difficult. They're Windows.

From an MSE perspective you think I'm paying for MS Office?

Esqui

Fedora on the laptop, Jolicloud on the netbook. And the boyfriend has Ubuntu on his desktop and laptop

HO87

As kabayiri says, open-mindedness is the thing. Its a matter of horse for courses. If you want a machine that has "all the latest software", allows you to do what you want, don't want to involve yourself in what goes on under the bonnet and have relatively deep pockets then MS is probably the way to go, with a smattering of OS X. If however you either can't afford to constantly upgrade hardware/software or are less concerned with brand involvement then there are now perfectly viable open-source alternatives.

We're very much in the latter category. 5 machines in the house; 1 desktop (G4 MDD) and 1 Mac Air (both 2nd hand) running Snow Leopard; 2 home-build desktops and a Dell lappie running Linux (2 x Lucid, 1 x SuSe).

S0litaire

Ubuntu on my Laptop (day-to-day work) and Desktop as a low-power HD Media center running XBMC (I dual boot it with Win7 as there's a few things / games that only work in Windows rather than VM / WINE)

Esqui wrote: »

Fedora on the laptop, Jolicloud on the netbook. And the boyfriend has Ubuntu on his desktop and laptop

What's Joliclould like? I'm thinking of trying it out...

Mr_Oink

Running Slackware - have been for years. Love it. Occasionally dig in with Ubuntu/Debian/Cent.
I still keep an XP box around for 'those' apps I need once in a million years (Flash, SoundForge, SAW+,Vegas) but it's just so slow and flaky compared to Linux :-)