Posted: 9/23/2010 5:18:48 PM EDT
| I was recently given a desktop computer that doesn't have an operating system loaded on it. I'm thinkng about running Linux and would like to know what distrobutions the users here have on their machines.The computer uses AMD 64 architechture . |
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Just know that Linux does not protect the user from mistakes. If you click the wrong icon and the command is to wipe the hard drive, it wont ask you 17 times if you are sure that you want to do it like windows does, it will just wipe the drive.
Linux is not good for gaming. If you just want to use the internet and do office work, Linux is great. You may have some problems with interfacing with hardware if you don't know what you are doing. I used Ubuntu for a while and liked it, but it had no advantages over win7 for what I use a computer for. |
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I would actually suggest Mint. I run a netbook from Dell that had a proprietary version of Ubuntu on it. Every time they pushed a driver update for the wireless NIC it hosed that box.
I stuck Mint on it with a thumbdrive install and it worked out of the "box" It's damn slick, and this is coming from someone who spends 8-12 hours a day buried in a Red Hat or CentOS box for work... I'm an old school Linux purist (Slackware downloaded from a BBS in the '90s, yo ) and I would offer Mint to my grandmother. |
| Oh, another good hit. Run whatever version you get off of a live CD (running the operation system off of a CD with out installing it) before you install it to see if you like it. There are many different versions that you can try off of a live CD, so the more you try, the more idea you will have of what exact version you want to run. |
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Just know that Linux does not protect the user from mistakes. If you click the wrong icon and the command is to wipe the hard drive, it wont ask you 17 times if you are sure that you want to do it like windows does, it will just wipe the drive. Linux is not good for gaming. If you just want to use the internet and do office work, Linux is great. You may have some problems with interfacing with hardware if you don't know what you are doing. I used Ubuntu for a while and liked it, but it had no advantages over win7 for what I use a computer for. " If you click the wrong icon and the command is to wipe the hard drive, it wont ask you 17 times if you are sure that you want to do it like windows does, it will just wipe the drive." why in the hell would anybody set up something like that? 
Not good for gaming? Ubuntu with wine installed ran all my games just fine. IL2 1946 , Halflife, Halflife2 and others. Also Id makes a linux installer for most of their games to run natively in Linux. I dual boot Win7 and Ubuntu. |