From WinXP to Ubuntu
Discussion
For me the thing that keeps (or possibly kept) me on Windows was C++ development (specifically, Visual Studio) and PC Gaming. With Steam now available for Linux and various titles being converted to run on it, I can see my reliance on Windows lessening. Likewise, I'm starting to develop under Linux more as my current client works that way (my previous clients for years and years have been Windows & Visual Studio) so, again, that is lessening.
I think that as more applications become platform agnostic, there will be less and less reason to be tied to Windows. However, we are not yet at that point.
I think that as more applications become platform agnostic, there will be less and less reason to be tied to Windows. However, we are not yet at that point.
ZesPak said:
I agree to an extent, but MS Office is actually a great package that works well. People learn it in school, they use it at work and then they buy it at home because it's what they know. It's changing though, for school work I've seen a lot of them using Google Docs or equivalents.
It is. I have it for work use, and have always had it (legally) installed at home through work. But I would never actually buy it for home use.ZesPak said:
As for Windows, I'd argue that very few buy it. It's included in almost all new systems. And the few that offer no-OS or Linux pre-installed (dell?), hardly go cheaper without it so you'd be almost stupid not to get it with windows and then just install Linux yourself.
It still has to be paid for, even if the system builder obfuscates the cost a bit - but some people do buy boxed upgrades for Windows.I think anyone who does buy a boxed upgrade for an XP machine is in for some pretty disappointing performance, mind, most XP boxes must be pretty old hardware.
Corso Marche said:
LordGrover said:
Take a look at pixlr.
I just wanted to come back and post a thank you for this.I'm now using Pixlr for most of my photo editing, only opening GiMP the odd time for more involved stuff. A big thank you, as I'd not heard of Pixlr before.
otolith said:
I think anyone who does buy a boxed upgrade for an XP machine is in for some pretty disappointing performance, mind, most XP boxes must be pretty old hardware.
While I agree that it's not worth the money, Windows 8 actually runs very light. Ubuntu isn't that great on resources either, on old machines that came with XP (eg 1GB RAM, sometimes less) I much prefer Mint over Ubuntu.Mint seems to fly on machines that never could, even on XP. Multi tasking abilities stay limited of course, you can't change the nature of the hardware, but it's very smooth.
For reference, for example, I have a netbook (1GB RAM, Atom), which is a lovely thing for a ridiculously low amount of money:
- Came with XP, but never really ran smooth but worked, don't open more than one thing at a time though
- Installed Win 7 starter, which wasn't much better but not worse either
- Installed Ubuntu (don't remember, 11.x prob), worst on it so far, very laggy in operation. Boot was noticeably faster though.
- Installed Mint, ran smoothly as you'd expect it to come out of the box, finally able to play MKV's without having to convert them as well.
Blown2CV said:
Libre office is fine as long as everyone else uses it too. They've always said it inter operates fine with MS office docs, but I've seen enough messed up formatting over the years to know it's horse st.
It interoperates with MS Office Version 'n' at least as well as MS Office Version 'n+1' does.GlenMH said:
Zumbruk said:
It interoperates with MS Office Version 'n' at least as well as MS Office Version 'n+1' does.
And don't get me started on sharing stuff between Office for PC and Office for Mac...Looks legit
http://www.mslinux.org/
I like Ubuntu. Being a total Linux noob I found it the easiest to understand.
http://www.mslinux.org/
I like Ubuntu. Being a total Linux noob I found it the easiest to understand.
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