informit.com — You're ready to be a card-carrying Linux geek, but with several different Linux distributions available, you don't know where to start. Which one offers the best balance of tools, performance, and price? Bryan Hoff takes you through the most popular Linux distros and introduces you to a brave new world without Windows.
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quicksilverSep 19, 2005
Yea what TastyPastry said! though I will attempt to read this article.
j_carcinogenSep 19, 2005
i am happily running xp because you can't be the ati driver/direct x/ code optimization for games. i was just plugging my fav distro, not bashing windows.
captsnuffySep 19, 2005
You can't pick a one best linux distro, it just doesn't work.
bt_wangSep 19, 2005
for christ's sake you lazy dumb bastards. you can't have someone tell you which one to use and be happy with it unless they're willing and available to help you with it 24 hours a day. making articles like this out of the question. deal with the small amount of research you have to do and pick one for yourself. there are HUNDREDS of these articles, and the reason everyone feels like they need to write more is because there are some people who are too lazy to read them and want a drop-in windows substitute without spyware and viruses, there is no such thing and you should be willing to learn.linux is very cool and it's worth the effort if you really want to learn, any unix OS is. if you aren't willing to put forth a certain amount of effort you are going to fail miserably and go back to windows, and unless you are very persistent, that's it, and you'll probably never try again.
bt_wangSep 19, 2005
oh.. cedega sucks and most of the time doesn't work, if you really want to run windows applications, run them in windows. cedega and wine are what I use for simple tasks that aren't worth rebooting.
j_carcinogenSep 19, 2005
if it wasn't for MS the PC game industry wouldnt be s**t. So i sacrificed a partition to the gods and put SuSe on it while keeping xp on one. gotta go get my Battlefield 2 fix, see ya
j_carcinogenSep 19, 2005
nah im playing, im an OS geek and have multiple HD's. Even dabbled in this thing called OS X for x86 processors...
j_carcinogenSep 19, 2005
10.4.2 for x86 has been seeded btw
j_carcinogenSep 19, 2005
i wish ubuntu didnt exist because i think people that want to try linux for the first time will mistakenly try ubuntu first since it is so trendy.
aresSep 19, 2005
trendy? How about using it since it just flat out works. have you run it? have you had a problem with it? maybe I, or the thousands of community people can help you out.My HP deskjet 7550 prints perfect, my 4g Ipod mounts and works as well as it did with iTunes, using gtkpod, my nvidia 5950 is running 3d acceleration. Maybe It seems trendy because it's Debian and a good version of Debian. People like Synaptic and apt-get.I haven't seen any linux that burns an iso with a right click on the image sitting on the desktop, choosing 'burn to cd' and having a bootable iso written in 4 minutes, then removing and inserting that disk and ubuntu recognizing it as an upgrade ( breezy ) then giving me a dialog box that says "ubuntu software recognized, would you like to upgrade now?" Then it launched synaptic and installed all the packages without user intervention.plugging in my fuji s5100 camera and it recognizing it, and asking me if I want to download the photos.People want OSs to just "work". Not have everything to google or read a manual on just to use their computer on an alternative OS.Being linux, sure you can tweak and tune it and get lots of toys into it.check out <a class="user" href="http://www.ubuntuguide.org">http://www.ubuntuguide.org</a> if you don't believe me.In the end I want people to try and, and form their own opinion, this article was decent./rant off