N00b Question, N00b Thread

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DanteWilhelm

Bright Spark
I know nothing about Linux other than it is what I perceive as an ''alternate operating system''.

Please, someone enlighten me and tell me how awesome it is ;)
 
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Wozza63

Biblical Poster
Its ok, the best bit is that it is free

I used it for a while on my laptop and got used to it after a while, you dont need to be smart but you need to know a computer better than usual incase you need to use the terminal

If you are only browsing the internet and making documents and stuff then its a good option to try but gaming isnt really a good idea, you can run windows programs via wine although they arent amazing when run via wine

You always dont need to do tidying such as defrag and registry cleaning

There are many versions to choose from, i had ubuntu which was fine and is the most preferred i believe

It can also be quite annoying if it cant find a driver, you could end up spending a lot of time just to get something to work, a common one for me was my laptops wireless card
 
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DanteWilhelm

Bright Spark
Wozza365 said:
Its ok, the best bit is that it is free

I used it for a while on my laptop and got used to it after a while, you dont need to be smart but you need to know a computer better than usual incase you need to use the terminal

If you are only browsing the internet and making documents and stuff then its a good option to try but gaming isnt really a good idea, you can run windows programs via wine although they arent amazing when run via wine

You always dont need to do tidying such as defrag and registry cleaning

There are many versions to choose from, i had ubuntu which was fine and is the most preferred i believe

It can also be quite annoying if it cant find a driver, you could end up spending a lot of time just to get something to work, a common one for me was my laptops wireless card
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yeh I can imagine it being annoying and pretty pointless for me but was wondering if it serves any unique, specific purpose. I already have a fully supported OS with no compatibility issuess, apart from if i want to play the STALKER games, damn you windows 7.
 
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Wozza63

Biblical Poster
No real benefits to a regular user really none that i ever noticed other than everything being free
 
Frenchy

Frenchy

Prolific Poster
Its ok, the best bit is that it is free
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LOL. Classic statement from someone who doesnt have much of an idea abotu linux lol. Even if it wasnt free (like some distributions of linux, for example SLES, a version of SUSE) linux machines are especially good as servers. They are extremely stable, one of my machines hasnt been shutdown or restarted in just over a year (apart from mandatory restarts once every 6 months when I perform certain upgrades), its never crashed, never complained about anything and still continues to run many thousands of tests per day on it.

Security is much better on linux than on windows, user system much much better, plus the command line alone is a reason to use linux. In windows you tend to do most stuff by ouble clicking icons, navigating user interfaces etc, in Linux, most serious linux users dont tend to touch the UI much in terms of installing, navigating file systems, copy/pasting, launching programs etc, this is all doen through the terminal, something which with practise and a logical file system becoems much much quicker.

There are many more advantages, ive only scraped at a small number, however as Wozza said generally as a day to day user you wont find a great deal of advantage over windows, and if you're a gamer then forget it lol.
 
Gorman

Gorman

Author Level
Im with Frenchy on this, sort of, and i dare make myself unpopular by quoting myself.

Linux has no place on a desktop, its fantastic for servers and thats where it should stay.
 
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barrydrake

Silver Level Poster
There are many benefits to the regular user. These are: security - especially where attacks are concerned - speed and versatility. On the downside, gamers will want to use games that are designed for Windows, so if you are a gamer, you are locked in to Windows unless you get involved with the Linux games! STALKER is, as far as I know, based on Windows. There are many Windows applications that have a Linux equivalent that actually feels and looks better. Why not download an Ubuntu live-CD and boot from it. It won't affect your regular Windows installation, but will give you a taste of what a good Linux system feels like.
 
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barrydrake

Silver Level Poster
Gorman said:
Im with Frenchy on this, sort of, and i dare make myself unpopular by quoting myself.
Linux has no place on a desktop, its fantastic for servers and thats where it should stay.
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Hmmm! There speaks someone who has never had the Ubuntu experience! Just wait till you move to Windows eight .... Actually, my recent experience with Windows 7 was not all that bad - until I got below the surface. When you are used to Ubuntu, Windows 7 seems kind of 'clunky' at the scripting level. Ok on the surface though, which is where the average PC user happens to be.
 
Gorman

Gorman

Author Level
Ive had my fair share of experience with various distro's over the years, used to make SIP boxes too, asterisk was it?

My only concern about Win8 is the new set of deployment tools it is getting launched with that will ruin my day, as a gamer, Windows is my only option.

Im not bashing linux, much, its got its place and excels where it fits, your average jo or gamers desktop is not that place, yet, 20 years later and still the yet.
 
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barrydrake

Silver Level Poster
Gorman;111134Im not bashing linux said:
Ubuntu 12.04 (release next April) is fantastic for the average PC user who is not a gamer. It is easy to get into and very user friendly to non-geeks. I've been moving ordinary Windows users over to Ubuntu since 10.04 because their Windows box was getting to be too slow. Ubuntu has given all of them a new lease of life. 12.04 makes the task even easier. And folk aren't scare of it because it isn't Windows - they all have non-Windows OSs on phones, tablets, iPads etc, so the resistance has largely gone away. SIP is great! I've put Asterisk on my netbook ready for when Microsoft makes Skype non-Linux friendly ... if they do. I tend to use Skype a lot when out of the country. Far cheaper to call a landline in the UK than using a mobile phone.
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Gorman

Gorman

Author Level
Asterisk rocked when i played with it years back, bet its come a long way. Used to make an average PC into a full blown VOIP server and throw in an adsl card and its a 5 grand PBX!
 
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Branedy

Member
I use Linux for just about everything, and on the desktop also, there is nearly nothing you can do on a Mac or Windozes that I can't do as well as, or better than in linux. I recently moved a company to the Amazon Cloud both EC2 and RDS, and used a virtualbox Linux mint installation to configure the EC2 instances and RDS parameters in the Amazon servers, as the command line interface in Linux is better than those other OS's.
 
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Wozza63

Biblical Poster
Branedy said:
I use Linux for just about everything, and on the desktop also, there is nearly nothing you can do on a Mac or Windozes that I can't do as well as, or better than in linux. I recently moved a company to the Amazon Cloud both EC2 and RDS, and used a virtualbox Linux mint installation to configure the EC2 instances and RDS parameters in the Amazon servers, as the command line interface in Linux is better than those other OS's.
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Games, linux cant beat windows for games
 
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