Posted on 06/22/2015 6:33:19 AM PDT by ShadowAce
bkmrk
PCLinuxOS is Ubuntu based and made to look like Windows.
Switching was no problem, Gimp, Firefox, an a full Office Suite is included.
Put it on a system, and in less than a day, anyone will be up and running, and never need MS or Mac again.
I put Ubuntu on a small PC and love it.
It was a cheap little name brand desktop and windows just slugged it out.
It’s a spare PC that I keep in my studio and it runs great.
Ubuntu is user friendly, free and has a great app store (a LOT of free stuff)
While I’ve never used it, I’ve heard good things about PCLinuxOS.
Been a ubuntu convert for 12 years. Will never go back. No viruses...no hacks...no ID theft.
And more CPU cycles to use, since you're not running AV.
I have several hard drives for my laptop. Ubuntu on one, PCLinuxOS on another . PCLinux is much more stable, and that is with both systems kept up to date.
Ubuntu has memory leaks and tends to overheat the video card, PC does not.
Most PC users couldn’t use the command line if that had to, so no point in fearing it.
In my experience, the vast majority of people have no idea whatsoever of how their computer works, and really understand no more than rote incantations to accomplish certain tasks.
I've got a fellow who I set up on Fedora 12 several years ago. He's happy, in that his computer is stable, it does what he wants and is relatively pain free. He won't let me upgrade him to a more recent version though. At the moment I'm pretty much OK with that. As long as everything is working for him, it really doesn't matter how far back he is.
I’d love to stop supporting Microsoft but Linux still isn’t there yet. I’ve tried to run Linux about 3 times over the past decade. Two things consistently happen for me:
1. With no changes to the hardware or software, it (Ubuntu) can one day just refuse to fully boot. It goes to a purple screen and I have to find instructions to modify some config file to boot it up.
2. It still doesn’t work well with any video card I’ve ever owned. With some cards, it didn’t use the full resolution. With others, it runs the fan 100% of the time.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
It is getting easier, but yes it is hard. The biggest thing is you'll hear..."Oh did you install this program it's wonderful for doing XYX".
So you run off to get said program. Oh wait it's not available on your build of Linux. So now you have to either change your build of Linux or compile the program youself.
While working at IBM, I have used Linux as my laptop OS (Red Hat Enterprise) for the better part of 3 years. My duties had me traveling globally, and generally speaking, I performed my own pc support. In those three years, I never had a problem. I did have 2 apps that I had to run in a VMware player instance for Windows - Visio and Project. Other than those two apps, everything ran in Linux.
I am now back on Windows due to both role changes and policy changes. I have had 5 instances of a total lock up requiring a forced power cycle in 3 months. I also have countless other little Windows “features” that have caused me no end of hassles.
I would love to go back to Linux.
That's kind of a scary place to put yourself in. I see this a lot with the Apple folks too. Honestly, how to do know you have no viruses, malware, sniffers, etc if you have nothing watching for it? It's like taking all locks, alarms, and cameras off your home and then proudly stating that you know it has never been broken into. How do you know that no one has walked into your home, made some toast, cleaned up after themselves and left?
I watch Apple users take this same approach, get a malicious add-in on their browser, and then wonder why their system runs slow. Granted, the majority of the bad stuff is focused towards Microsoft, but that doesn't mean it can't happen on other systems. At all the hacker conventions, EVERY OS gets hacked. On Linux, you are safer than being on Windows, but you are kidding yourself by doing nothing.
Browser get hacked but the Unix OS’s don’t get hacked unless you have a really easy root passwd.
As along time veteran, compiled Linux systems manually, just for fun, had a Mac at work for a while, I simply have no need to use anything other than Windows. It works fine for what I do.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
compile the program youself
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