out of curiosity i booted into my win2k (after about a solid month of Linux tweaking) just to remember what it was like....

and it's sooooooo depressing, it's like going to back to see an old "friend" but when you see him again your struck with awe that you didn't realize that he was a parapalegic from the neck on down.....

like you were told this but you choose to look on the bright side of things... until you got away for a while and now it's like going back to kindergarden.... except your waiting for the terrorists to burst thru any minute (viruses, spyware, bugs) and take all hands hostage....

which is not fair in a way seeing how "at the moment" all seems well, but it keeps making this horrendous "humming" sound that simply goes away when i'm in linux, oh yes, thats right, the gawd damned fan always needs to be engaged with windows.... which says nothing of the acursed fonts... if you go into the dialog properties it says "oh, yes, we are at 32-bit true colour graphics"... really, like on what planet....????

check out the difference in fonts alone....

nah, look on the bright side... i'll back up my linux partitions, fix that damned paritition mismatch, get my decent partition software running and shrink this damned win2k 5 gigs down to 1 gig (ok 2 gigs for games) and just keep win98 on here.... Linux is doing everything else for me and just keeps getting more and more interesting....!

with all the bells and whistles that are coming with the new gnome and kde, i sure hope they don't go the way of this bastardized x-windows system (yes, i'm told windows was origionally based on x)

hmmmm, another 3 gig available for linux.... hmmmm!

sorry, no poll today, too tired! feel free to comment though!

- perry

ps.
i will be doing some benchmarks before i remove this beast from my system.... after a month with linux, i could not believe that it took a whopping 5 minutes for the damn win2k signon dialog to show, and that was just the dialog!

I know how you feel.

I started out 6 years ago on windows 95. Hated to reboot all the time. But man it was supposed to be the latest, greatest, neatest thing. A year later I installed Red Hat 5. And I liked RH5 better than Windows! Moved on to RH 6 and ran a Slackware 7 live cd. Man was that cool

My son uses W2K and it is depressing. Games are cool but the headache of the thing can drive you mad. Reboot, reboot and reboot again.

I'll stick with Linux

What's depressing is that the "normal computer user" will never try another OS other than Windows. That damn company has such a strangle hold on less computer literate. And it's not that Linux is only for "super-smart-pc-techs"!! If only people knew how much more stable their pc experience would be in Linux! They assume that since Dell and Gateway ship their pcs with M$ fodder they have no choice in what to use. I bet half don't realize there is a choice! I felt bad for this guy in BestBuy the other day comparing different word processing apps, after much (or very little?) debate he picked up that shiny new OfficeXP and paid practically his soul for it. Does he know there is free software that does the same thing?! It's like he associated .doc files to being only something that M$ can do and all the others are impostors. Sad... Sad... (Man I really do feel sorry for that guy every time I think about it...)

Bottom line: When I uninstalled WindowsXP after this Slackware 10 install, it was most free I have felt in years! And my productivity has muliplied many times over!

I can really relate to this. I barely log on to windows anymore. Once I got the hang of it, I've been doing most of my work in linux.

But it's a sad fact that most of the people around me only knows how to use windows, and I think even most of them will never change to a different OS. Well, I'm still hoping that I can change that.

instye as you put it "Once you've slacked, you'll never go back..." which is quite true

i told my maths teacher about linux, he got mdk 10 discovery. i don't believe he has a windows partition any more...

I have 2 Slack 10 machines and a WinXP desktop (the newest machine [2001?]). All three machines run very well. I have no complaints. The only thing keeping me from converting the XP machine to Slack is my "If it ain't broke...don't fix it" belief. Right now....it's not broken.

Recently I booted up my inlaw's Win 98 machine. Since I don't use another version of Windows other than my own, I hadn't used an older version of Windows in a while. Wow, it really sucked! It was SLOW. It crashed regularly and the display was not good at all. I tried using Slax on their machine. It ran quite well. I might convince them to let me install Slack 10 on it. It would really breathe some new life into that machine.

Computing has really come a long way in the last 5-10 years.

lol - I like the side-by-side comparison.... forgot that m$ actually spams their users with crap like dialup and AOL icons.

thats pretty interesting....

not a scientific poll, just viewer buzz but a recent question asked "What is the best OS?" was posted and Slackware is running neck and neck with OS X

What is the best OS?

Check it out!

- perry