I'm pretty comfortable in both Windows and Linux, but I use Windows primarily for gaming. Apparently, my GFX card (ATI Radeon X1300 Pro) is now "legacy", and as such, is unsupported by the new drivers in Ubuntu.
I had a brilliant install of 9.04, then I installed Wine, then Steam onto that, then started HL2: DM and got about 3 FPS.
I could only say FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU--- at that point.
I tried all sorts of stuff to try and make it work, but nope, and I had to reconfigure xserver because I failed that hard.
Windows. I'm decent in either one but WZC actually works compared to that POS NetworkManager and Firefox isn't dependent on WZC; like Firefox is to NM.
Only reason I installed Ubuntu was for Scratchbox, so VMware works for me.
@qwerty12: NM can be switched off, at least in openSUSE.
I switched it off (and set up interfaces, wpasupplicant.conf etc manually), but Firefox believed my connection was non-existent and set itself to "Work Offline" by default, on each startup. It was a pain in the *** turning it off. (I think there's workarounds/fixes now, but they didn't exist when I was using Linux.)
Or maybe it's Ubuntu turning more and more into a shitpile. I had to upgrade from an older Ubuntu install that had an old NetworkManager and pin networkmanager in /etc/apt/preferences. Too much of a hassle if I needed to reinstall. Plus, I couldn't mount jffs2 files like I could with previous versions (I had to boot from a 7.04 live CD and tar it up from there...)
Or maybe it's Ubuntu turning more and more into a shitpile.
Probably. Since I'm using Iceweasel finely and I don't even have the NM daemon installed. I also don't have Pulseaudio, etc.
It bothers me that Ubuntu tries to follow Windows so closely that it already has started to limit the set of options up to the point that it, like Windows, does not work for me (e.g. use of pulseaudio for _EVERYTHING_ when I have nice hardware mixing, forced usage of NM when It's been 10 years since I last switched network configurations, etc. One older version even overwrote what it believed to be the MBR without asking me first, getting it wrong --like Windows; they all get it wrong on this machine, dunno why-- then proceeding to leave my system in unbootable state).
I am a Debian user currently, with a Windows VM I seldom boot anymore to use some USB hardware, and a Windows partition I only use for gaming (and I will probably end up being a Crossover customer).
I use linux only at home, linux only at work, and don't let anyone do anything with my computers (in particular, the support guys at work).
More: I bought a N800 because it's linux (I would have bought a smartphone otherwise). I wanted all my scripts and programs to work on the tablet, want to use mutt, vi, ssh, rsync, etc.
L.
Same here, actually. I bought the N810 *because* it is Linux. My last was a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500...And I see a lot of the OpenZaurus refugees around here (like Lardman, and I believe I remember seening that IronGeek graduated from the Z to the Nokia as well).
But there is something very cool about being at a mandatory CEO pep-talk in the office and on your N8x0, logged in to a box overseas over wireless through OpenVPN working on a script that has to run in an hour...
Same here ;-) Running Linux[1] mostly[2] everywhere[3], ever since a fateful day in 1993 when I went through a ~50 floppy SLS[4] installation and never looked back.
I actually still have a copy of the Yggdraisil book around here somewhere...
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[1] No particular relig^Wdistro, currently a mix of Fedora/Centos/Debian/Ubuntu boxen[5] and various "embedded" variants.
I prefer Debian's package management. Used to use Ubuntu until Gutsy came out and encryption in the installer was broken, at that point , I went back to Debian on all my home servers. That said, I also used to do CentOS/RHEL and even SuSE at work.
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[3] Even in places I'd never expect to find it. You know "world domination, fast" has happened when you receive a GPL notice with your TV.
Yeah, a Myth box is on my radar as well. I need to get a few PVR-150s.
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[5] Is it a bad sign when you're running out of IP addresses on a /27? And if that's just your home LAN?
