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Reply #3 Posted on: August 17, 2014, 03:06:45 pm |
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Freedom ! You have a lot of distros and for each distro you can choose a different graphical interface. With windows, if you don't like their latest version with tiles, you're f***d or you need to install new applications in order to get rid of this crap.
Also, with Linux you don't get virus ! With windows, you need often to re-install your PC, even if you are careful, as the OS is infected all the time ! You have anti-viruses of course, but it's far from being a perfect protection. And finally, i like very much the idea of open-source software.
I've a PC with a dual boot between Linux Mint and Windows. I try to use much as possible Linux. Sometimes it's not possible, as i need to use software like Photoshop.
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Reply #6 Posted on: August 17, 2014, 09:04:22 pm |
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TKG, if your Windows 7 takes 8 minutes to load and 4 minutes to shut down you have a very serious issue mate. What are your system specs ? That's bloody awful, I would think even the crappiest of machines would boot faster.  I don't even have SSD and my Win7 boots in less than 20 seconds full to desktop and I have lots of drivers and stuff installed. Personally Win7 is my favourite windows OS, no complaints here......I have a rock solid and stable system. My 2 top rock solid OSes, Windows XP SP3 and Win7. I've done film work, editing, and hardcore stuff for years and never had any issues. |
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Reply #7 Posted on: August 17, 2014, 09:05:11 pm |
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Location: The throne of ringworld
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Yeah, I really like being able to customize window borders and control appearances if I ever want to, makes it nice. I agree if more big companies like Adobe cared enough to port all their best software to Linux, I wouldn't use windows for anything other than Windows game ports. If GMS's IDE ran on Linux along with everything else I need I'd be a full-time Linux user.
Older versions of GM run on wine, it's on synaptic (Software Manager) or on the terminal sudo apt-get install wine. Being able to customize your desktop is a huge pro, also the lack of nocive fauna, but for me the selling point is freesoftware, free as in speach and as in beer. Qt never did it for me I'm a Gnome fan, or moere precisely was, since gnome3 I switched to cinammon and never loked back. |
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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
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Reply #8 Posted on: August 23, 2014, 10:16:08 am |
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Location: Cappuccino, CA
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Linux handles installed libraries and packages beautifully, the way it should be. There is literally no Windows equivalent, there are attempts at one but they just suck in comparison. I consider it to be a major fault in the majority of software which happens to be Windows. Not everything has this problem, DirectX is installed so those apps are not really an issue, but engines like Irrlicht or OGRE are because they don't have a runtime installer you have to redistribute it which is nonsense.
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I think it was Leonardo da Vinci who once said something along the lines of "If you build the robots, they will make games." or something to that effect.  |
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Reply #10 Posted on: August 28, 2014, 01:52:16 pm |
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Location: The throne of ringworld
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Ubuntu sucks
Only Debian
Debian is more stable, more faster and sexy xD
Fervi
Yes but ... Debian is always 2 or more years behind the cutting edge software, it also is less user friendly. That said . . . Ubuntu Sucks big time! And Unity sucks too! Long live LinuxMint and Cinnamon!  |
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