Same here!
Posted on 03/21/2013 2:06:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“And (hallelujah!) STEAM has started porting games to Linux!!!! I was playing Half Life last weekend without using Wine.”
I need to do this.
I used Ubuntu.... not as nice and friendly as adds say..... I suggest you try out Mint (Cinn is pretty... Mate is better if you don’t care about eye candy... but KDE is complete control, with accessibility)...
Chjeers, and exactly... only gripe I have about Mint.. is NO encryption ... :p but I still use it, no one can change my mind ;)
( I encrypt the non-boot... only way around Mint’s only weakness)..
Cinn and Mate hate another problem I didn’t mention... the logging ( HDD read/write rate) is terrible... that is why I changed to KDE in the first place.. :p
I love KDE, and would go no other way since... but you mentioned Virus... not the OS’s fault..
Linux rocks
Linux is alpha quality software for the desktop, but some of the live cd’s are very good for rescue.
well duh. Linux on the desktop is for geeks not everyday users.
And that is the problem with Linux on the desktop. You can’t easily take a program that works on Linux and run it on all versions of Linux like you can on OSX and Windows.
RE: Linux on the desktop is for geeks not everyday users.
So, are they planning to make it more user friendly to make it appeal more widely, or is the target customer always going to be limited to geeks?
I’d really like to see a viable challenge to the over 90% dominance of Windows on the desktop.
GNOME sucks. Always has.
I’ve been using KDE since 1.x.
BTW, I also have a Mac. But I use Linux with KDE most of the time. I find it more productive than using Mac OS.
Same here!
I can’t see them ever fixing that issue with Linux. The issue is geeks will always push different things and they will never agree on one or even two flavors of Linux. So there is no way for them to fix this and run applications natively. OSX is the only option to windows that is end-user friendly.
Well Stated. Very few linux users see the types of problems this guy finds. If he starts to rework and fiddle with programs on a Mac or Win machine, he would have even more problems... especially since he would not be able to work from source code.
Sounds like you managed to install your Linux with one or more partition being on “cylinder” boundary rather than on “4096 byte” boundary. That yields write speeds about 1/3 what they ought to be on SATA disks.
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