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lau
Quinquaginta Novem! Male Gee-knee-us + silly bits.
Joined: Jun 18, 2006
Age: 59
Posts: 7102
Location: Somerset UK
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Well... currently, I have a puny laptop, with Slackware, plain CLI on it.
(I got bored with it, and haven't gone back to load X onto it.)
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skafather84
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Joined: Mar 21, 2006
Age: 24
Posts: 4725
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| my friend has slackware and the browsers keep crashing on him whenever he comes up on a page that has a flash video or anything like that. he's gonna be switching over to ubuntu soon enough, though. |
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NeantHumain
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Joined: Jun 25, 2004
Posts: 3615
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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My last experience with Linux was Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 and before that version 2.2, neither of which I used much. It wasn't easy to get Debian 3.0 installed on my then new laptop (additionally, the Windows XP partition wouldn't budge to make much room for it). I remember Debian being a hassle to get anything working: X and graphics, networking (didn't even bother with my WiFi card), and sound. (I am a technically inclined person, so these setbacks would have stumped 99% of computer users).
Well, I've got a new laptop now, and I've given half of my hard drive to Ubuntu Linux, and so far it's great! It really is as user friendly as Windows or Mac OS X. Canonical and the rest of the Ubuntu Linux developers are single-handedly responsible for making a desktop Linux, a Windows killer, possible. In other words, Linux can go beyond server farms and computer science majors' PCs.
Microsoft has much to fear (except of course my new laptop still came with Windows Vista—no Windows-less option plus I wanted some kind of Windows anyway). |
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