Sup guys.

I decided to make this thread to discuss the badassery of the Linux operating system, and all (closely) related open-source freeware distributions.
Hopefully we can inform some JSPers to give linux distros like Ubuntu a shot, particularly on older desktops and netbooks.

I'm somewhat informed on using ubuntu, linux mint (which is an ubuntu derivative), and I'm just trying out debian and fedora.

Secondary topics worth discussing in this thread are handhelds that run linux, such as the OpenPandora project or the GP2X/32 or any other arm-based Chinese knockoff tablets. I get a kick out of those.

I am also looking for information related to linux gaming and any known potential there. Compared to Windows, I've had a limited gaming experience on ubuntu, though the games freely available in the software center like Battle for Wesnoth are really badass. I consider the biggest limitation of the typical linux operating system to be gaming, as the vulgar demand it. As far as office suites, messaging and networking, downloadable content (>9000), relative ease of use, boot speed, hardware adaptability, low hardware requirements, customize ability, strength of server distros, music and video players, and online support, linux (more specifically, ubuntu), pretty much reigns supreme.

I know a few guys who use Linux as their main OS. They just use Wine whenever they want to game.

sups

question: what fonts do you use

microsoft fonts

obvsly

kde or gnome

Gnome for me, but I don't have a really solid reason for this prejudice.

Imo gnome > kde. To be more on topic my experience with linux is only in a VM. I would like to set up a dual boot sometime to learn moar.

I usually use dual boot software that lets me run either W7 or Linux.

I like Linux for the fact that its a really light OS,and for me anyways,is easy to use.
But I like W7 for its convenience,and of course,the gaming.But a good portion of the time I can find patches to run said game off of linux,so I'm not really sure which one I like more.

gieb names of cool software/games/ w/e i shuld get

up, you tried running your entire disk as a virtual machine? you could access your windows partition through vbox

http://blarts.***/2007/12/06/how-to-run-virtualbox-using-a-physical-partition-using-ubuntu-feisty-fawn/

*** = w ord press
It worked until I got bsod right after windows 7 logo
i think it's becaise it is 64bit and it couldn't use more than one processor
if you got some time try that and tell me if it works for you
this should be nice

and btw, i got bored of windows, i can't stay on it for more than 5 min

This post was edited by Haitham on Sep 19 2010 09:57pm