Photoshop 8 isn't even scheduled for release till December...

I deleted my /WINNT, /Program Files and /Documents and Settings directories off of my laptop's /hda1 partition a few days ago and thus have a Windows-free laptop. I have Win2K still installed on my desktop machine, because I've got quite a few apps that only work under Windows -- and I don't want my wife to divorce me.

Seriously, though, I have a NetMD walkman, and there isn't any open source software to transfer music to it (yet) -- and while I can record to it in real-time from Linux using my USB Sound Blaster, I'd prefer to record in faster-than-real-time.

But now that I'm getting past the learning curve with Linux, I'm far happier having it on my laptop than having Windoze. My wireless connection is more reliable on it, for one, when I'm out at coffee shops that have it, Crossover Office works just fine for running Word (yes, I know there's StarOffice and OpenOffice.org -- but they are slower than running Word via CX's Wine distro and they foobar formatting in some Word docs), and I love MozillaFirebird. Also being able to compile and install ALSA drivers myself and make them work is really cool.

Check it out guys!!, Upgrade to kernel 2.4.22, it rocks!!, ACPI support greatly improved for many different Laptops!!!, it's good to be able to track your battery via gui!!


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I have to keep windows to avoid nanying my visitors willing to use my computer. That's bad but that's the way it is.

If they are not the one to explain "top notch" to those happy with "not too bad"

And you don't lend the jet fighter to people who just want to go for a bit of shopping. They can take the trabant for that.

you should just make a Guest account that anyone can use with only certain privileges. And make it all nice point-click-point-click with web browsers, and instant messangers, things that regular people use....It's not hard at all to use Linux to browse the net.

Use Red Hat and feel betrayed! Like when I was using windows some time ago. Want to use free software! RH used to be some time ago! Will all other distro become a windoze affiliate as did RH? Is there a critical mass when distros become large enough and goto windowze style? What will it be of GNU/Linux without its philosophy?????and more ?????

See my post here

There is plenty of reason for some distro's like RedHat and SuSe to become commercial. RedHat has always been more of a server OS to begin with. There will always be plenty of free kickass distro's for us to play with.

i use linux 'full time' since a long time now. BUT there is one thing i need windoze for : games!!!
linux has potential for games... of course playing sof2 with wine or winex is a joke... but hopefully, one day there will be 100% linux compatible games and vga's.

Games - Haven't you forgot the Emulators?

yeah... wine.

winex rocks

Well I have just installed Redhat 9.0 on my new laptop and so that gives me about 10 days of linux experience! Previously I just used MS OS's ('98 mosly), but at work I still have to use Windows NT upon which my company runs a custom piece of software.

I moved to Linux because one or two rival companies to my company are using Linux as there basic OS. Ergo, I may need to know a bit about Linux one day. Also XP hold zero appeal for me and I needed a laptop. I picked RH 9.0 because it was popular...no other reason.

So far (mostly) so good for me. I have a few books and I am trying to use the command line as much as possible to learn and I am just cutting my teeth on basic scripts (with mixed success!).

The installation was ok except I had some trouble with my winmodem at first but I wouldn't blame this on Linux rather it is the fault of the manufacturer and me (kind of) for buying it in the first place. I would say that Redhat is good for people like me because you can get it up and running relativly quickly. I say relativly though because there were a couple of time when I had to really go over the manuals, for those used to wizards for everything even redhat may be a problem.

I like the Gnome desktop and the default bluecurve (sorry oldskool users!), although I think the Naulitus file browser is a bit light in that a decent 'tree' is not available as in the likes of Windows Explorer - Not being able to control everything from the tree is a pain actually.

The Openoffice suite seem decent enough although the fonts do look a little scruffy (this may be due to my LCD monitor though), I can live with this and being able to read and write .doc and .xls files is really useful (although one .doc file came out a bit wierd when I read it).

I moved from the default Mozzila browser to Galeon pretty quick and insalled a newer Gaim. I am impressed with both Galeon and Gaim.

I couldn't give a dam about games actually, I have my Gamecube for that. I am more interested in SNES emulators actually and my laptop would probably pass out if I loaded up Unreal tournament anyway. I do agree that gaming is a problem as far as mass appeal of Linux goes however.

I may need windows, but I haven't logon there for a long time.

FreeBSD become my main OS, redhat9 is the second. I chose freeBSD because it is easier to compile, tweak and learn. BSD and linux are similar so np at all.

as i already said, playing sof2 or any other demanding game on linux with wine/winex is ridiculous compared to the performance u can get on a win platform!!!
don t forget that dri aint supported fully and natively under linux... getting a radeon dri to work under linux is kinda tough...
have to admit games are uilt for win only ;(

only complain about linux from me >>>>>>>>> GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Went completely over to Linux about 15 months ago and have never looked back. I don't miss Micro$oft what so ever.

Office work, finances, audio, video, gaming, Internet related, desktop publishing, photo editing, web page creation... Linux provides all of it for me and I've never been more productive with my PC. Best of all, besides donating to my favorite Linux projects and buying the odd boxed game (from Tux Games), I haven't had to spend any money to do any of this!