Linux fans? Had a windows filled night of fun...

[heppycat]

You know that if you use multiple swap files, Windows will automatically stripe them? Same thing in linux of course.

[sheilalynn]

Re: Linux fans? Had a windows filled night of fun...

Went on the other comp, downloaded Ubuntu, burned, installed and after maybe 1hr I had everything updated and running. No messing with service packs, chip drivers or all that crap. Just recognises everything and works. Im not computer inclined but I gotta say its alot easier to use then I thought and finding compatible stuff for Ubuntu has been ALOT easier then the crappy distro I had before.

UBU! It's the God of all things Linux 8) When I boot into it, I hear nothing but silence and have a speedy computer. When I boot into Vista, constant processor running, freezeups, all kinds of garbage. It's a no-brainer.

<----- Linux fan since the days of Slackware 3...when you had to install and configure X yourself to work with your hardware :wink:

[lxskllr]

You can do that in Windoze, too, but it's not as easy as in Linux.

For Windoze I usually set up a small partition for the swap file, a large one for data, and a fair sized one for the os and programs.

With Windows, you generally don't want your pagefile on a separate partition on the same physical disk. In a 1 disk system it's better on the O/S partition. It's faster as the head doesn't have to cross partition tables, and it allows a memory dump in case of crash(can be useful for debugging). This is all kind of academic. If you're hitting your pagefile enough to matter, you need more ram.

[zmanzero]

like cy said, ubuntu was painless installing. i installed it in virtual box - http://www.virtualbox.org/ - man 'o man, i'm cruising on linux right now, it's way easier than i thought it would be. thanks for the thread cy, it got me off my ass. 8)

[VBSnus]

I run three computers at home. Three monitors, one keyboard/mouse and a KVM switch to go betwixt the three.

Far left is a Toshiba laptop running Windows Vista 32-bit. I use Microsoft Virtual PC on there and have about 15 XP virtual machines I use at various times to satisfy client VPN software needs.

Middle is my baby, a quad core CPU 64-bit Vista system with 8GB RAM and 4 SATA drives, also two 512MB geForce video cards with SLI joining them together.

Computer on the right is my "every day" computer running the latest Ubuntu (Jaunty). I absolutely love Ubuntu and the power it gives me over my machine.

Sometimes I use my iPhone 3GS for web/email as well. =P

[shikitohno]

I triboot on my laptop, with Fedora 11, Mint 7 and Mandriva Spring 2009 One Edition. I mostly use Fedora 11, but sometimes I'll boot into Mint because some things are easier to do in it, and I do like the interface better. I may kill Mandriva, since I haven't used it in aeons. On my Desktop, I have CentOS, and Windows Media Center, which no longer has sound. I was letting my computer illiterate roommate use it, and explained torrents to her, not thinking of the problems that could result. I don't blame her since I knew that she wasn't good with computers, but she was trying to torrent the next season of LOST, and downloaded something like Lost-Season4.exe, and ran it. Haven't had sound in Windows since, despite multiple virus/spyware scans.

I prefer Linux by far, Fedora being my favourite. For most things where I want Windows, I just use wine. For example, I'm playing Umineko No Naku Koro Ni at the moment, which is a Japanese Windows game translated into English through a Windows based patch. The only reason I keep Windows on that box is because I let my friend use it, and I'm scared of the headaches that I'd have if I had to sort out the type of problems she could create in Linux.

Linux does seem to be catching on a bit more, now that people have realized you don't need to have been born speaking in Visual Basic in order to use it. I hated Vista with a passion, and I had the "best" version, since it was cheaper to get when building my laptop than the most basic type of XP. I can't imagine going back to it, except in work. Even so, I'm doing university for bio, and hard science labs love the hell out of it, since they don't need to buy subscriptions to licenses.

Edit: The thing I hated most about Vista was the hassle it suddenly became to delete files. Even opting to automatically skip everything I could, it seemed like I needed to confirm that yes, I really do want to delete that file about 20 times before Vista was satisfied I didn't make a mistake.

[sundog]

I've tried using wine, but the more I drink, the harder it is to sit up straight in front of the computer. :lol:

[lxskllr]

Edit: The thing I hated most about Vista was the hassle it suddenly became to delete files. Even opting to automatically skip everything I could, it seemed like I needed to confirm that yes, I really do want to delete that file about 20 times before Vista was satisfied I didn't make a mistake.

I just right click, and pick delete. It goes to the recycle bin without any confirmation. I left the confirm prompt to empty the recycle bin as 1 last failsafe. I could turn that off also if I chose to.

[shikitohno]

I no longer have Vista. My harddrive failed at university, and my backup discs were buried in my room several hundred miles away at home. Since the disk was under warranty, they replaced it with a blank disc. That's why I started using Linux, because I had no money, and no OS for my school computer. ext3 is supposed to be somewhat better for the disk from what I hear, also, so I can keep myself calm by thinking I'm not going to need another drive.

[lxskllr]

I no longer have Vista. My harddrive failed at university, and my backup discs were buried in my room several hundred miles away at home. Since the disk was under warranty, they replaced it with a blank disc. That's why I started using Linux, because I had no money, and no OS for my school computer. ext3 is supposed to be somewhat better for the disk from what I hear, also, so I can keep myself calm by thinking I'm not going to need another drive.

I just had a drive die a month or so ago. It was a data drive, that had a bunch of movies and VMs on it. It just quit, and I wasn't getting any response. I put it in the freezer overnight, and the next day I was able to access it, and I got my most important information off. I didn't have enough room on my other drives to get everything, but I got what was important. AFAIK it's still working. It was when I shut it down anyway. I wouldn't trust it for anything important at this point. I'll save it for a beater machine or something.

What's the point? Damned if I can remember... Oh yea! Backup your files. Never trust a HD, even if it's new. Burn some DVDs if you have to, but keep your important stuff backed up. I got lucky with my situation, but it's better to not rely on luck :^)