Why Not Linux.?
By yndesai
@yndesai (159)
United Arab Emirates
February 18, 2007 7:42am CST
Have you ever thought about using Linux and then abandoned it. I would like to know the reason whay are you have stoped persuing Linux.
While for those who are already using Linus they can also put their views stating why they think there are less people thinking to move to linux.
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5 responses
@Fargale (760)
• Brazil
18 Feb 07
For me, a few reasons kept me from becoming a full-fledged linux user;
- difficulty to install some of my hardware
- lack of versions for a few programs that I use in Windows
- the fact that most distributions expect me to have some good knowledge of command line functions, and/or the spare time to read through manual pages until I learn about them.
But if I had a bigger HD, I'd install one of the latest, more user-friendly distros and give it a try.
@yndesai (159)
• United Arab Emirates
19 Feb 07
Barring the WINmodem (internal Modem in the laptops) I am yet to see a PC hardware which is not supported by Linux (Some may not be supported out of the box) Can you elaborate which is the hardware you are having problem with.
Also Would like to know about any specific windows applications you are referring to.
Regarding command line I am using MEPIS, SUSE & Ubuntu and am happily using GUI w/o command line. While command line learning would always help. Also learning command line is only one time effort as Linux do not change those commands with newer version of linux. While Windows has stopped command line facility from VISTA onwards (Which in my opinion is not good for many advance users).
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@nishanity (1650)
• India
18 Feb 07
yeah it has happend to me... i have ubuntu and i have tried red hat....
the thing is that unlike in windows, linix programs cant run .exe files and most s/w come as .exe files!!
its hard to find a yahoo messanger for linux and that one that is available is not at all user freindlY!
i think mainly the problem is that we are so used to windows and its user freindliness tht we cnt feel right using linux!
@yndesai (159)
• United Arab Emirates
18 Feb 07
Good start I expect this perticular reason would dominate the response. Just for your info.
While Yahoo messanger client for linux is available at http://messanger.yahoo.com/unix.php.
Did you know that "GAIM" messaging client which comes with ubuntu talks to MSN, YAHOO, AIM, Jabbar, ICQ . . .. . . .
Regarding the ".exe" check out my blog http://ilearnlinux.blogspot.com. While many of them also comes with LINUX
Also there are many ways to install applications on Linux, can be discussed further if you are willing to give linux one more try. Just for the record I am responding this from UBUNTU on my thinkpad laptop.
@yndesai (159)
• United Arab Emirates
19 Feb 07
I think you should stay in touch with linux. (In fact I feel more in controlm hence comfortable of my computer when I use Linux.)
While I know most of the present distribution comes with installation CD which just install linux in a spare partition and then also add the windows in the bootloader menu. Hence it becomes a convenient multi OS system.
@Fargale (760)
• Brazil
19 Feb 07
By the way, one thing that I just remembered and that helped turn me away from one of the distributions was the fact that I was turning to linux looking for a stable, light and faster platform, but instead I ended up with a KDE interface that managed to be even slower than Windows XP (which was already prohibitively slow with the low-end system I had at the time).
The next time I try a distro, I'll make sure to stick to gnome or even IceBox or something like that.
@encik_khairul (183)
• Malaysia
20 Feb 07
linux is not entirely out-of-box. i've installed ubuntu only to find out that it doesn't play dvd. some packages need to be downloaded and some packages have some dependency issues.
to me, linux is more for geeks - or somebody who really interested in exploring and learning new things (and have time doing it)
@yndesai (159)
• United Arab Emirates
21 Feb 07
For real complete out of box experience you can go for MEPIS. Even there is ubuntu's Christmas edition. http://ubuntusoftware.info/xmas.html
While if you want to install any packages on ubuntu I have written a detailed blog at http://ilearnlinux.blogspot.com/2007/02/installing-software-packages-on-linux.html
