Posted on 06/24/2005 11:41:30 AM PDT by freedom44
After using Firefox for almost a year, and playing around with Knoppix in DVD boot for a short time, this week I completely switched over to Linux. Both feet first, no dual booting.
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Good luck. Am currently in a just-Linux mode, and have been discovering sadly, there are some things you simply cannot do in Linux. Such as running Yahoo music service, iTunes, and some streaming video applications such as online television broadcasting.
Yes I know about Wine, and have used it for a lot of applications.
I’m going to set up a dual-boot. Linux just by itself is simply not adequate in a world where 90% of the rest of the world is on Windows.
You still need that capability, IMHO.
“Cute, a bunch of these aren’t even necessary on non-Microsoft operating systems.”
Yeah, Macintosh is crappy that way.... someday they’ll get those expensive machines to work..
Bookmarked.
Thanks.
The post you’ve responded to was written over two years ago. It turns out that I’ve been content to happily live without Windows in that time. YMMV.
I was given a fairly new Dell with XP Pro but am prompted for a password when starting up. Is there a utility that will enable me to get around this or do I have to rebuild the disk?
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