The LINUX Thread!

[Malice]

Well, I am a windows guy and many of you know that, but I dont know Linux to well.

So I have decided to wipe my machine and dual boot XP and Ubuntu.
I thought I would post a thread for all Linux posts and help.

Any thoughts to those of you that use Linux?
Anything I should do in particular?

 

[Darthphere]

What's the difference Malice, I've always heard people say that LINUX is so much better but have never really been told why. I have XP, and I'm getting tired of it really. Short of switching to Apple, this seems like a more plausible move.

 

[Malice]

What's the difference Malice, I've always heard people say that LINUX is so much better but have never really been told why. I have XP, and I'm getting tired of it really. Short of switching to Apple, this seems like a more plausible move.

I am simply switching to LINUX to force my learning of the Operating System.
Not because its "better" but really to learn the OS.

I am security and administer a corporate network and this is to further my experience.

 

[Malice]

Here I am running Ubuntu 7.10 and Windows XP now.

I am keeping the Windows XP side for basically games, and going to try to do everything on the Linix side just to learn!

So far I do like evolution, nice app

 

[Kable24]

From my experience with Linux it is a more reliable OS than any Windows OS. Definitely more stable. It's not real user friendly for people who like things with the GUI interface. A lot of command line, but I guess the new distros of Linux have gotten more user friendly. Personally I would never want Linux as an OS, but for a server you can't beat Linux.

 

[Malice]

I am simply doing this to learn it...for my professional life.
The XP partition is strictly for games.

I figure...moving to Linux and use all the apps there for what I would on my windows pc...
Thunderbird for mail....firefox for web...and start learning more on the other apps, I can start to learn more of the OS.

 

[Speedin Bullet]

If you're just chillin' in the GUI side of Linux then there isn't much difference. The true power is CLI and what you can do there.

 

[Malice]

of course...but running the desktop promotes me to use it...then me trying to use the CLI, is where I need to learn

 

[Asteroid-Man]

We already have a linux thread Malice.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=262586
http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=298422
http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=284832

Merge 'em homeboy