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

[vhenok]

IMHO!

Personally, I use Linux for political reasons. I am opposed to the way Microsoft shafts their customers. I am opposed to proprietary and incompatible protocols. And I believe that the future of the human race lies with ideas like GNU/FSF and GPL, and not with the corporately driven marketing scams that most Wintel-based computer companies subscribe to. In short, Linux is proof that revolution is possible.


How about the fact that Linux is free? How about that fact that Linux was built around coming to places like this and asking questions and getting answers (some of the people hanging around here know more about computers than any telephone tech support person on the planet)? How about the fact that Windows viruses have no effect on Linux systems whatsoever?

From a business angle you can say that there's a longer uptime which means that you can keep the servers on longer not to mention that if you work on the machines there will be less of a need to restart as often. There's also the fact that there's basically no viruses or spyware. This leads to less breakdowns of the systems. and that adds up to which companies like. There's the fact that most distros are free and come with everything you need for whatever needs you have. Some of these things are Open Office, Firefox, and other things depending on the individual distro. You would be saving money in the long run even if you had to train on Linux a bit it would all work out good down the road.

UPGRADES! UPGRADES! UPGRADES! in the windows world, you upgrade and you pay, and its not realy all that neccessary or good of an upgrade. linux, upgrading is simple and free, also, there is usualy no real radical changes when you upgrade, since everything works so well already and its already customizable, there is no room for drastic changes as the linux community knows better..
There is also manegeability, a well trained Linux user can fully manage a Linux OS and recover from almost any system error without the need to reset the computer, unlike windows which almost always seems to be the solution.

In short: Linux is fully manageable and a whole lot less volatile.

Peace!

[Jun aka Pekto]

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.

[pissword]

hahahah sir gearspeed ako din eh sa inook ko siya nasubukan.... takte inis na inis ako sa konqueror ata yun na browser at nababagalan ako sobra hehe pero yun nga baka naman iba na tong mga xandros etc now..

[pissword]

anu pinakamagandang yung LIVE CD version ng LINUX?

[BlueBimmer]

anu pinakamagandang yung LIVE CD version ng LINUX?

Xandros 3.0! para familiar windows interface pa rin hehe

[pissword]

bat d ko siya mahanap doon sa LIVE CD category? hehe knoppix ang download ko now...

[seung]

Naghahanap na ako ng distro para sakin. Mga 2 months na akong Windows-free (thank you Mac OS X), hehe.

[GlennSter]

errr...whats "distro"? hihihihi

[seung]

*GlennSter

Yung distro para siyang type ng Linux. Marami kasing type ng Linux sa market, kanya kanyang developments, features, etc. for different purposes. For example bago ako sa Linux coming from Windows, most probably ang hahanapin ko interface ng Windows para hindi ako masyadong manibago sa pagmimigrate. Ang like what BlueBimmer said, Xandros 3.0 fits this bill. Yung ibang type kasi ng Linux sobrang newbie unfriendly, hehe. Nakakat*nga in short.

[wildthing]

what about the redhat linux? any assesment on this?

[Aquaman123]

errr...whats "distro"?

Distro = Linux Distribution

If you were to download and install Linux onto your computer, you would not have a GUI (graphical user interface) or any other applications. Thats where vendors or distributors of Linux come in. People with an idea about how the desktop should look, feel, or be used will take the Linux source code and add many other applications to it that will allow you to turn your computer into a complete desktop. These people create what is known as a distribution or "flavor" of Linux.

OSDir http://shots.osdir.com/
This web site maintains a collection of screen shots of different Linux distro

what about the redhat linux? any assesment on this?

Read this article:
Why Linux Users Hate Red Hat
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1592544,00.asp

[ghosthunter]

Check out LINSPIRE 5.0 and CEDEGA 4.4.1

www.linspire.com
www.linspire.com/cedega

Looks most promising.

[pissword]

teka wala bang may feedback dyan sa Knoppix? mukhang isa siya sa sikat na Live CD eh baka naman ang hirap nito d pa ako tapos download hehehe 50%

[Aquaman123]

Note: "Live CD" is generally slower than embedded (Installed) Linux because every action, program, and everything has to be read then uncompress from the CD drive and not from the hard drive kaya mukhan mabagal. Imagine 7-10 mins bago lumabas ang desktop.pero depende rin iyon sa speed ng cdrom mo. "Live CD" distributions take most of the pain out of trying Linux. Learn how to get Linux running on your system without installing it, and find out which live CD distribution is right for you.

Ok ang Knoppix detect nya NTFS file system di gaya ng ibang distros

[pissword]

ahh buti naman 700MB ito eh hehehe... sayang din kung mapapangitan ako.. ok lang kung medyo mabagal.. i have a 52x32x52x cdrom kaya pwede na rin siguro.. i just wanna try it out inggit ako sa ibang marunong. hehehe

[badkuk]

in fairness, maganda talaga interface and usability features ng windows os and office. also, while it's easy for us techie guys to adapt to new software, some people may find the shift difficult -- lalo na ung tipong 8 or more hours a day gumagamit ng excel.

fyi, there is such a thing as M$ Office Small Business Edition -- mga 10 - 11k, includes word and excel only

[chieffy]

fyi, there is such a thing as M$ Office Small Business Edition -- mga 10 - 11k, includes word and excel only

pang isang pc lang ito di ba?

[badkuk]

yup, 1 pc lang B)

[BlueBimmer]

which is better kaya Linspire or Xandros?

[mantoy]

which is better kaya Linspire or Xandros?

Linspire. kaso di sya free kaya madaming galit sa linspire hehe.