Why not Linux? (WinXP + MS Office Pro cost P28,700)

**ghosthunter** · January 24th, 2006 07:30 PM

I installed it using the boot CD. No dual boot used. No problems.

**flakez** · January 24th, 2006 10:44 PM

hmmmmm

baka mali lang pagkaburn ko. hehehe

ayos ba ung xandros? pano ako mag iinstall ng mga apps? madali lang ba? pwede bang direct install na nung mga apps ng windows? o may separate installer ung pang linux/xandros. ung ibang apps kasi may separate pang linux. since mukhang hi-tech na tong xandros baka pwede na diretso.... hehehe.

**ghosthunter** · January 24th, 2006 10:48 PM

unfortunately I was just trying different flavors of linux because of the licensing push of MS. I didn't get very far into getting applications ported over from MS to Linux though. If I remember correctly, most of the "plug & play" Linux already has some word processor and spreadsheet apps included.

**flakez** · January 24th, 2006 10:59 PM

ah ok. most of the apps na kelangan ko naman e designed for linux, kaso lang ang problema kelangan ko mag dl ulit. hay buhay.

BTW. how do you burn the installer CD? what i did is i extract the iso file and burn it into a blank CD. i dont know how to burn iso files. hehehe

**ghosthunter** · January 24th, 2006 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by fLaKeZ

BTW. how do you burn the installer CD? what i did is i extract the iso file and burn it into a blank CD. i dont know how to burn iso files. hehehe

to burn an ISO file to CD, simply use your software (I use NERO) and choose burn CD from file option. The resulting CD will be a copy of the original source CD.

**GlennSter** · January 24th, 2006 11:26 PM

you burn iso files using alcohol120% or daemon.hindi pwede yung ordinary nero =)

**flakez** · January 24th, 2006 11:33 PM

wouldnt it result to an ISO file? or it will extract itself while burning in to the cd? i remember i tried burning an iso file before but the result is still an iso file. hehehe. anyways, thanks. i guess i'll just have to try it again.

**GlennSter** · January 24th, 2006 11:34 PM

i tried alcohol (free to try for 30 days)

boot cd na labas niya.

**Jun aka Pekto** · January 24th, 2006 11:39 PM

Why not Linux? (WinXP + MS Office Pro cost P28,700)

Well, for one thing, games made natively for Linux are far too few in number. For those that run under WINE, I'd have to jump through hoops setting each one up rather than a simple doubleclick in XP. 3rd party apps are also far too few. I do quite a bit of video-editing. I haven't yet seen a video-editing app for Linux that's as feature-packed or even as capable of running stable as those in XP and the Mac. I've tried a demo of Cinerrela(?) before and that thing crashed within a few minutes.

Another irritation I've encountered in the past with Linux is the repeated dependencies on top of dependencies when all I want to do is update a piece of software. Granted, I was using Mandrake (rpm). But even updating in Debian-based distros (deb) is still not as easy as in XP.

Having said those, I have used the freebie Mandrake since version 6 and have boxed distros of SUSe 7.1 and 8.1. Right now, I've started using Linux LiveCD's instead of installing them outright. I use Linux mainly for surfing when I feel like using Linux. The relatively low number of excellent commercial 3rd-party apps makes it less than compelling for now, free or not.