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05-08-2009, 06:22 PM
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#721
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Member
Registered: Nov 2008
Distribution: Slackware & LMDE.
Posts: 74
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MediaMonkey, GTR Evolution and various business related apps. Not a whole lot come to think of it..
Last edited by kslen; 05-08-2009 at 06:24 PM.
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05-08-2009, 06:41 PM
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#722
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Member
Registered: Sep 2006
Location: Canada
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 702
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The biggest reason... I have a TabletPC. The other reasons... games and other applications that do not have a Linux port.
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05-16-2009, 11:42 PM
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#723
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2009
Location: New Zealand
Distribution: Fedora 16, LinuxMint, Puppy
Posts: 18
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1. FSX Flight Simulator
2. the startup sounds
3. the paperclip helper
3. popup saying that system will restart regardless what my opinion is, because it's good for me, with the golden opportunity of snooze, so I can lose my work 20 mins later...
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05-17-2009, 12:14 AM
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#724
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Gentoo support team
Registered: May 2008
Location: Lucena, Córdoba (Spain)
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 4,083
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OK2BCK
2. the startup sounds
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I'd like to know what's stopping you from using whatever sounds you want when starting your desktop of choice in linux.
I have no idea why would anyone want to use this so called "feature". However that's not for me to judge. I think I remember a small window with a lightbulb or something like that in OpenOffice, which I think does something in the lines. I am not sure how it compared to the clip if at all. I've never used it, and I really disliked the clip thing in msoffice because all it does is interrupting my work flow like nor even an earthquake could do it.
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3. popup saying that system will restart regardless what my opinion is, because it's good for me, with the golden opportunity of snooze, so I can lose my work 20 mins later...
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I don't understand this at all. The system is shut down when you tell it so shut down. And in linux you don't need to reboot each time you install a solitaire game. So, can you clarify that point?
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05-17-2009, 07:13 AM
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#725
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Moderator
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Central Florida 20 minutes from Disney World
Distribution: Slackware®
Posts: 13,991
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Hi,
I think 'OK2BCK' was playing on the features missed.
Sarcasm? 
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05-17-2009, 09:29 AM
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#726
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: England
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 1,039
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I thought Sar-chasm was the intellectual gap between someone being sarcastic, and someone else not understanding 
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05-17-2009, 09:45 AM
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#727
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Member
Registered: Jun 2007
Location: Japan
Distribution: Debian lenny, DSL, Solaris 10
Posts: 157
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I use my girlfriend's computer to play America's Army time to time. I wanted to at least try to play it using wine, but the video card wasn't very compatible with linux, so in order to play, I have to use it. Even with games it gets buggy so I really can't stand it that long.
My computer is pure linux though. And I use it for everything excepting playing America's Army.
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05-17-2009, 09:52 AM
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#728
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Guru
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Canada
Distribution: Slackware, Void, VMs: AntiX, Arch, Debian
Posts: 7,504
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Quote:
Originally Posted by i92guboj
I'd like to know what's stopping you from using whatever sounds you want when starting your desktop of choice in linux.
I have no idea why would anyone want to use this so called "feature". However that's not for me to judge. I think I remember a small window with a lightbulb or something like that in OpenOffice, which I think does something in the lines. I am not sure how it compared to the clip if at all. I've never used it, and I really disliked the clip thing in msoffice because all it does is interrupting my work flow like nor even an earthquake could do it.
I don't understand this at all. The system is shut down when you tell it so shut down. And in linux you don't need to reboot each time you install a solitaire game. So, can you clarify that point?
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Dude....he's joking.  Some welcome comic relief.
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05-17-2009, 10:02 AM
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#729
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 17,809
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I don't use Windows---why does this message keep appearing???
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05-17-2009, 10:07 AM
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#730
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Member
Registered: May 2008
Distribution: Slackware 13
Posts: 116
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I use it at work, although that's becoming less and less important. I've installed Slackware on an old discarded workstation (1.2 Ghz, 256MB) and use the slow days to integrate it into the network. My boss looks at it suspicious though and tried to take it away from me a couple of times, but I seem to have impressed upon him that I am convinced running Slackware in the companies network is 'vital' for my 'training'. I haven't figured out completely what both this 'vitality' and the 'training' entails, except obviously that it's just better this way.
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05-17-2009, 11:26 AM
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#731
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: England
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 1,039
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pixellany
I don't use Windows---why does this message keep appearing???
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LOL 
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05-17-2009, 02:54 PM
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#732
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2009
Location: New Zealand
Distribution: Fedora 16, LinuxMint, Puppy
Posts: 18
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Quote:
Originally Posted by i92guboj
I don't understand this at all. The system is shut down when you tell it so shut down. And in linux you don't need to reboot each time you install a solitaire game. So, can you clarify that point?
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FSX Flight Simulator is the only reason.
All the other things are why I quit Windows.
(thought it was funny)
Jan
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05-17-2009, 03:37 PM
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#733
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Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: In front of the monitor
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 322
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Quote:
Originally Posted by w1k0
Why you use Windows?
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3D tools, Maya, Zbrush etc...
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05-17-2009, 03:40 PM
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#734
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Member
Registered: Aug 2005
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 355
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games and quite a few of my clients are still on windows (moving quite a few over to linux, as the desktop experience improves)
Last edited by namit; 05-17-2009 at 03:44 PM.
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05-17-2009, 10:39 PM
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#735
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Member
Registered: Apr 2009
Location: Orlando, FL
Distribution: Scientific Linux 6 x64
Posts: 211
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VirtualBox is my Salvation, i.e. it keeps me 'within' a linux environment. I'm moving my business programs right now over to the Slack 12.2. side to VB XP. That leaves me with Games....my strategy games, as a sole reason to boot into Vista...ah, one other....DELL uses a windows installer for BIOS upgrades, so I'm booting over there right now to check out the new BIOS....i'm sure I could get a boot disk for that though.
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