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- Zaggynl, on 11/04/2008, -6/+87Hey hardware suppliers, MAKE BLOODY LINUX DRIVERS OR RELEASE SPECS!
Please :(
*sighs at his $100 Creative card* - inactive, on 11/04/2008, -8/+71Digg: Where Linux has been overtaking PCs since 2004.
- BXRWXR, on 11/04/2008, -6/+47As long as it works as well as Windows, I really don't care that it's Linux.
- alkajazz, on 11/04/2008, -13/+47Can I play high end pc games? No, then probably not.
- krahzee, on 11/04/2008, -2/+32Why won't it be?
Because I use some software that runs native in windows that loses functionality in Wine. I do not want to dual boot, And If I am going to run a virtual XP/Vista/Windows 7 and pay for the OS anyway, I'd rather run it native, where the performance is just a bit better.
I have used Ubuntu and like it, but if I can not use the software that I need for my job on it, I won't be able to buy a new PC period. - EagleRock, on 11/04/2008, -7/+33As much as I'd like to see this happen, how skeptical is everyone else? Wasn't the "Year of the Linux Desktop" supposed to happen every year since its inception?
- Picer, on 11/04/2008, -1/+25"lightweight, low-end machines" has never really been synonymous with gaming in the first place windows or linux.
- morphir, on 11/04/2008, -1/+22ubuntu backend? In that case I think we settle with saying Debian or simply the linux kernel, with a little bit of maybe?
- inactive, on 11/04/2008, -13/+33You know, these articles are cool and everything, but nobody gives a *****. Honestly, I love my Lunix/Leenucks/[mispelling of Linux here] but this is getting ridiculous, we've heard 50,000 times about everything to do with Linux improving or how it's perfect or whatever. Can't at least one person imagine someone who uses Windows, not caring at all?
- pathouston22, on 11/04/2008, -2/+21You're an overpriced hooker.
- veriix, on 11/04/2008, -4/+20Actually they're much worse because linux users are online.
- f1codz, on 11/04/2008, -12/+26not only is ubuntu free .. its available and so well supported with so many forums to help u out ..
- mickstephenson, on 11/04/2008, -1/+15Don't sigh at it, sell it! it's ***** anyway.
Get a M-audio revolution and a proper amp instead of that piece of wank break out box you got with it - thephosphorbox, on 11/04/2008, -24/+38I can say for sure that my next computer will not be a Linux PC.
- Gr00ver, on 11/04/2008, -0/+14Oh.. you said music.
- Totz83, on 11/04/2008, -2/+15It's been a steady process since '91
- TimDigg, on 11/04/2008, -2/+15I'm at the point where the only thing keeping my on Windows is the PC gaming aspect. Until that changes...I'm stuck on windows
- Totz83, on 11/04/2008, -1/+13lmao
- inactive, on 11/04/2008, -0/+11I tried a Ubuntu 8.10 live cd yesterday and I gotta say it's awesome, too bad I'm a gamer and I only play games on my PC, so I can't go linux only. Also my X-Fi sound card doesn't want to work with Ubuntu..
But for notebooks/netbooks that are not used for gaming I don't see a better alternative than linux. - yule, on 11/04/2008, -1/+12My next pc might be a linux PC because my current one already is.
- Aitese, on 11/04/2008, -0/+11Who is this linux you're talking about?
- smotpoker, on 11/04/2008, -4/+15You're absolutely right. Large numbers of users asking their hardware vendors to make a driver or allow others to do so does nothing whatsoever to contribute. I mean, it's not like vendors cite lacking demand as their main excuse for refusing to cooperate anything...
Listen pot, don't be sweating kettle so much. There are hundreds of volunteers waiting/willing/eager to make Free drivers and those drivers benefit the ENTIRE COMMUNITY, not just the specific people who ask for or use them.
Get a clue and follow your own advice. - drgmdp, on 11/04/2008, -4/+14because there is no autocad for linux
- TehProphet, on 11/04/2008, -7/+16Why my next computer wont be a linux PC.
1.I like to play new, high end games.
2.I like windows, I've been using some version of windows for the past 13 years
3.I use a ton of windows only applications. - regeya, on 11/04/2008, -1/+10smotpoker and habbofresh, don't be a douche. you don't know whether or not Zaggynl is willing to write a driver, or even if this person had the card prior to giving linux a try on this particular machine.
I can honestly say I've contributed very little to hardware drivers...hell, if there's not specs, here in the 'States it's illegal to reverse-engineer, so I'd be putting the Linux kernel in jeopardy if I bought, say, a fancy new sound card and reverse-engineered it to write a driver.
Now, in my own house, since I can't do that (and haven't contributed any patches of note, and not in ages...maybe it was back in the 2.2 days?) it's open Linux drivers or GTFO. - krahzee, on 11/04/2008, -1/+10Never said it won't gain market share.
I was responding to the title "Why Your Next Computer Might Be A Linux PC" as posted on digg. In my case, it won't be Linux. - mickstephenson, on 11/04/2008, -0/+9Linux dropped the ball? Linux is not the CEO of any netbook companies
- DrTeeth01, on 11/04/2008, -1/+10One thing that people seems to miss, is that an increasing number of University students are using or toying with Linux. So by the time they graduate they will already be used to the Linux OS. These graduates often move into positions of responsibility and decision making in the work place. This means that resistance to Linux because it is different, is gradually eroded. It may start in the office space but this then moves into the homeplace.
- mickstephenson, on 11/04/2008, -6/+14So I guess you've never had to edit the registry? Or maybe you find the registry a user friendly configuration interface?
- Slade605, on 11/04/2008, -3/+11It is unfortunate how many people are still in this mindset. Yes I agree with it completely, but look at it from the opposite side. If you stay windows, so will the market share, so until the gaming community picks up Linux and drops Microsoft, game sales with either go down, or installation will convert to Linux compatible releases.
- mickstephenson, on 11/04/2008, -2/+10The Year will only be seen in hindsight, people will look back ten-twenty years and pick the year where they feel the snowball started, so perhaps in 2020 people will look back to 2008 and say that was the year of the linux desktop, but you can be damn sure you won't know it is the year at the time.
- uskomaton, on 11/04/2008, -1/+9As Picer said earlier:
"lightweight, low-end machines" has never really been synonymous with gaming in the first place windows or linux. - Krissam, on 11/04/2008, -0/+7I'm a PC and i run LINUX
- inactive, on 11/04/2008, -2/+9Acer has some great 70's porn music playing on their website.
- Apoy, on 11/04/2008, -9/+16Games games games -_-
- inactive, on 11/04/2008, -0/+7Hell, that's not even needed. Just find a motherboard with on-board S/PDIF and plug it into a good receiver.
- nickert0n, on 11/04/2008, -2/+9NDIS Wrapper: "Grandmas Rejoice"
- Aitese, on 11/04/2008, -5/+12You're under the impression everyone is into professional grade digital image manipulation. I'm guessing you don't have a little sister or parents or a old aunt who just discovered that You tubes. Or you do and they ALL work for Pixar.
- Klowner, on 11/04/2008, -3/+10Can I get 40 miles-per-gallon with this 2-ton pickup truck? No, then probably not.
Can I pull a yacht with this Prius? No, then probably not. - inactive, on 11/04/2008, -0/+7Hmmm, store all my data including photos and documents on some company's servers located somewhere or other - great idea. Too bad if the company goes bust or I'm cut off from the Internet...
- jlburke, on 11/04/2008, -0/+7If a laptop comes with a pre-installed version of Ubuntu, there would be little need to ever use ndiswrapper.
- designev, on 11/04/2008, -6/+13it certainly won't be a Windows PC.. I would actually like to give Linux a try.
- regeya, on 11/04/2008, -2/+8If you use Slackware, you learn Slackware, that's all.
I used Slack all through college. Last distro to pick up glibc by a long shot. There were even not-quite-alive distros which picked up glibc before they did.
It's okay, but it's not fantastic.
Want to learn more about Linux than you ever cared to? Give Gentoo a try. Then again, you're mainly just learning Gentoo...but there are things I picked up from using Gentoo which come in handy when something goes wrong on other distros. - inactive, on 11/04/2008, -8/+14 Minne was three years ago..Still is.
- regeya, on 11/04/2008, -0/+6"unfortunately, linux has already dropped the ball by using a modified version of xandros and not ubuntu."
huh? - inactive, on 11/04/2008, -0/+6You hear that? is the sound of debian users CRYING.
- mithrasinvictus, on 11/04/2008, -3/+9No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both Linux and Vista.
Repent! - scholaryoshi, on 11/04/2008, -6/+12Me Too. I am A Windows Fan Boy All The Way!!!
YAY FOR VISTA!!!
WINDOWS FOREVER!!!
WINDOWS 7 LOOKS COOL!!! - regeya, on 11/04/2008, -0/+6Precisely how I got into Linux; I used it in uni when I was a Comp Sci major, because we had projects which were supposed to be done on System V, terrible Internet access on campus, and labs were only open during times we were all in class. You're right, of course. At work, our router and our fileserver are running Linux, and that was my doing. People are fine with it; I may have fibbed a bit and pointed out it was "Unix-like, sort of like OS X" ;-) to get it in. But it was either that, try to pirate OS X Server (since we couldn't get it approved; $1000 for an OS for an $800 computer? Sure!) keep running OS 9 + ASIP (hah!) or install Debian. Debian won.
Linux on the desktop probably has exactly the sort of market share it needs and probably won't ever be a major player in desktop space. Fine by me. I'll happily use it at home, where I don't need pro photo editing tools, I don't really have time for games, and anything else I do on a computer works just fine here. - desiv, on 11/04/2008, -1/+7That was your mistake!
Your friend is a computer engineer. His computer is destined to be messed up. I'm sure he's got his own kernel compiled with partially working pre-pre-alpha drivers so he can try to get that thunderscan card working with 3 pass color. Computer engineers are notorious for messing up their machines trying to do the latest ..
That or he's an idiot. Computer engineers are also notorious for being idiots. :-)
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