Tips on moving to Linux?

[Iggy]

@ commodorejohn

Sounds like you are describing UNIX, because Linux hasn't been around for forty years.
And Linux continues to evolve.
Further, virtually all OS' can drive a terminal, personally I've found that useful.
Linux is no more kludged than Windows.

That being said, I'm not giving XP up yet either.
I'm typing on a laptop under XP right now and I have one desktop at home with XP on it (that dual boots with Ubuntu).
My netbook runs Win7, but I tend not to use it because its slower.

And perversely enough I spend more time using MorphOS than Linux or XP.

[Iggy]

Ohhhh yes it is.

Your opinion.

[Iggy]

And...that's just silly.
Kind of like defending an OS that uses a flat database like the Windows Registry.

[Iggy]

I'll agree with John there, ReactOS does look promising, if Microsoft doesn't litigate it out of existence.

[Iggy]

Actually, this is a pretty polarized discussion.
I don't think John is trolling.
I myself keep Windows around because its simply the easiest to use.
While I don't agree with John about the level of difficulty in using Linux, it IS a harder OS to maintain and when it crashes it gets ugly.

On the other hand, I've had Ubuntu around for the last several years and its really easy to install and works pretty well.
Sure, there's some lousy apps under Linux, but then again I've run into some real crap under Windows too.

[Iggy]

...The easiest way to install Linux alongside Windows without all the partitioning and @ss pain of losing or accidentally formatting your non-Linux partitions is to use WUBI.  See:  http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer

Officially WUBI only supports Ubuntu 12.04 but I've used it on later versions of Linux without any issue...

Yep, best reply so far. WUBI is too cool. Install Ubuntu from within Windows. Painless and easy.

[Iggy]

This is  now the fourth (and definitely the last) time that I tell you I'm talking about the other case where one is trying to install Windows after Linux.

Please read what you're replying to, it would have saved both of us quite some time.

UH, but that is the DUMB way to do it.
Windows or OSX first, then Linux, because those first two OS' aren't smart enough to co-exist with something else.

[Iggy]

And with that, we get a quick lesson as to why so many people are sticking with Windows.
For God's sake, why isn't there an app for this that doesn't require the use of a terminal?
I feel like I'm back in the '80s with crap like this.

[Iggy]

This thread has been enlightening. So far we've been told that Linux is for Gay Muslim Communists.

Won't someone think of the children?!?

What?
Think about indoctrinating them?
Thinly disguised Linux called Android is being pandered to that market as we speak.

"Would you like a tablet little boy?"

[Iggy]

Adobe...
Jettisoning that crapware under Windows would be quite desirable.

Under early Mac OS revisions, Adobe technology was great in enabling WYSIWYG.

These days, I am oh so tired of the slow downs and crashes this stuff engenders.