well, lots of people rave on about how good linux is and how its the way
forward....
SO i installed Mandriva LE 2005, completely removing my windoze xp install
with all my custom widgets and themes etc. and errr well...IT SUCKS ! now i
can not access my 80GB of porn / 40GB of music,pics,progs,games etc on the
NTFS backup drive. I have to practically write a bastard essay just to
install something 0-o
Ok so i'm just a lazy point and click user, but for fucks sake - i
can't even use my adobe CS2 !! my only sanity saver. I'm pretty
quick to learn stuff and not a retard by a long shot but why make out
something to be so cool when it is evidently quite shite. Maybe some of you
linux users can give tips / hints how to make this piece of shit OS more
user friendly ( please don't give me the usual " go back to
windows " bollocks, keep all smartass retard comments to yourselves -
informative stuff only please since i AM actually tryign to make this shit
work )
Thanks in advance for all helpfull info :)
and someone buy me one of these for my birthday please
posted by The Hated on Tuesday 27th September 2005, 13:16:05
Windows is the best OS out there, about 90% of people who say that linux
rocks never even used it, almost like anarchists. But sorry, I don't
know shit about linux (I used to have it as a secondary OS in my
school's computers so I ocasionally used it when I still didn't
have my password for Windows)
I have linux on my laptop and on another computer. Yes, Windows is
the best desktop OS there is. Linux on the desktop has a long way to
go if you want to do more than just web surf and write stuff with Open
Office. I personally don't like Mac OSX, but it is also better
than Linux window managers.
That said, Linux is a great platform for developing stuff on. I use
it for app development and stuff. Remarkably, GVim on Windows seems
better than GVim on Linux, even though Vim is something from the Unix
world. Installing and using Linux is orders of magnitude better than
it used to be, almost to the point that it can replace Windows for
some circumstances.
Yeah, I love Ubuntu, especially since it is based on Debian (apt-get
woo!).
You should be able to easily install Ubuntu with another OS on the
same hard drive/system. I did it on my laptop with no issues. Just
make sure you're not stupid and delete the Windows partition.
There is really no point in bothering with Linux unless you have
something you really need to run on it. If Windows is doing what you
need, don't bother with Linux. Use Linux if you want a nice
server, or you want to develop programs on it, or something special
that Windows can't do. In any other circumstance it will only
serve to be a hobby system, and you'll eventually just end up
deleting it to make more room for Windows.
^^^ Yeah, I ended up deleting SuSE off of my hard disk to make room for
Windows.
But SuSE is a viable Windows replacement. Installation was run through a
nice GUI. While I haven't tested installation from a total Windows
hard disk (I just followed my instinct to partition with Partition Magic a
5gig partition for SuSE), but from then on end, installation was a breeze.
Mind you I tried installing Slackware unsuccessfully, so I know the ins and
outs a bit, but I digress.
I left the USB external drive plugged in I believe during installation, so
it made the necessary stuff in the background to facilitate plug and play
for the drive. But adding support for other drives is easy if you just take
time to research. For instance, a FAT formatted drive that wasnt part of
the installation was pissing me off coz I couldnt access it, but once you
read up of... damn... can't remember the .conf file, but yeah, just
edit it, and you should be fine.
Updating packages is a snap, it even has wireless support built in since
9.2, which is the sole reason it trumps other Linux distros.
For me, I haven't had much use for Linux unless the occasional coding,
and tinkering out with mySql and Apache or something, installing music
players and stuff. But the sole reason I'm not using Linux is that my
productivity in Windows is much more, like I can surf with Opera in Windows
as twice as fast than in Linux. I have Photoshop and Illustrator, Flash MX,
Dreamweaver MX, Vegas Video Studio and other software.
While Gimpshop might want to skin GIMP to act like Photoshop, it still is
GIMP. I've grown accustomed to Windows, and that's what I'll
use.
I'm all for championing the course of Open Source, but when you get
yelled at in chatrooms or get RTFM NOOB by egotistical Linux users, it just
disheartening to see. People new to Linux need guidance, not thrust blindly
into it, and if there's a more dedicated user base to help in weeding
out problems (just like people trying to weed out Windows proble
And you can't mount the drive? Can be a problem due to file/folder
permissions set in windoze NTFS, if so then can be a hard work to recover.
Have you tried any "live-CD"... There are a lot. Just put in the
CD/DVD, configure the BIOS to boot from there and it automatically tries to
mount everything. I can't remember last distro that I have used, but
that should work. I also recomend Ubuntu, it's far better than
mandrake/mandriva. You can also try the Knoppix live CD.
a little help would be appreciated
