Needing some linux equivalents in windows, any ideas?
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Needing some linux equivalents in windows, any ideas?
So I'm getting a laptop today, and its going to run XP for now(games), but with that said, alot of my linuxy habits are going to go to waste, as well as some of the things I've come to love, anyone know of any equivalents to some of the more common software, especially yakuake/tilda?
1) I don't see why you'd get a laptop to play games on; desktops are more effective for gaming, laptops are designed to spare the battery, and that means they just aren't as good for gaming (at least in the same price range) as desktops. For games, choose desktop with good components rather than a laptop, or even better just use a gaming console.
2) List all the programs you'd like to get equivalent suggestions for. I don't see any replacement for yakuake/tilda for Windows, mainly because Windows XP's "Command Prompt" is just not as usable as Bash in Linux, for example Install Linux on the laptop for your works, if not only that, then at least as a dual-boot. If you're going to play games on the thing, you're going to pay enough for it to have a big harddisk on the thing, and that means you'll have a few gigs for Linux too.
Just to mention, the laptops I know of use harddisks whose speed is a little over 5000rpm or so, whereas normal desktop harddisks have over 7000rpm. That means: if your games store a lot of files on the disk and write/read from there, laptop is slower if the usage is heavy. Laptop's graphics cards aren't as good as those you can get for a desktop, as far as I know, and so on. If you meant "solitaire" by "games", then it's ok, but if you meant anything like newish 3d games, you can forget the laptop.
I've found http://www.osalt.com/ to be a decent resource for finding open source software equivalent to commercial products you might be used to using. It doesnt list the two you mentioned, but may help you with other software
1) I don't see why you'd get a laptop to play games on; desktops are more effective for gaming, laptops are designed to spare the battery, and that means they just aren't as good for gaming (at least in the same price range) as desktops. For games, choose desktop with good components rather than a laptop, or even better just use a gaming console.
2) List all the programs you'd like to get equivalent suggestions for. I don't see any replacement for yakuake/tilda for Windows, mainly because Windows XP's "Command Prompt" is just not as usable as Bash in Linux, for example Install Linux on the laptop for your works, if not only that, then at least as a dual-boot. If you're going to play games on the thing, you're going to pay enough for it to have a big harddisk on the thing, and that means you'll have a few gigs for Linux too.
Just to mention, the laptops I know of use harddisks whose speed is a little over 5000rpm or so, whereas normal desktop harddisks have over 7000rpm. That means: if your games store a lot of files on the disk and write/read from there, laptop is slower if the usage is heavy. Laptop's graphics cards aren't as good as those you can get for a desktop, as far as I know, and so on. If you meant "solitaire" by "games", then it's ok, but if you meant anything like newish 3d games, you can forget the laptop.
There are plenty powerful laptops out there, and I wasn't talking about Crysis or the like, besides, as much as I love linux, Windows so far to my knowledge is equal, and the basics can be done just as well, so dual booting just for pretty much the same software in most cases seems like a bit much. I just need to make windows a bit more linux like.
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Install Linux on the laptop for your works, if not only that, then at least as a dual-boot. If you're going to play games on the thing, you're going to pay enough for it to have a big harddisk on the thing, and that means you'll have a few gigs for Linux too.
