Windows or Ubuntu

[HopperJF]

Funny this thread should appear, I installed Ubuntu again last night to give it another whirl. Read my blog (link in signature) to hear the results... in short I am extremely impressed with it.

It is a fast no-nonsense OS that does what you tell it to do without any nagging, crap running in the background, security software slowing you down, and constant hard disk grinding!

For games I steer clear of expensive PCs and having to keep them bang up to date to run the latest games and use an XBOX 360 instead.

[HopperJF]

If the Amiga was still around today, no doubt that would still have that market, as a good games COMPUTER.  :-(

[HopperJF]

Xamiche wrote:

downix wrote:
but even Windows can't do that.  Games are falling to "XP-only" and "Vista-only" while Linux can scale it's Windows support to the level needed.  I run most PC games on Linux fine, only finding those that use the obscure "not-safe" DirectX calls giving me any real problem.

My PC plays any game I buy, right out of the box. Apart from the occasional retro-ware that requires a little tweaking to run, I don't have half the issues running a game on Windows that I do on Linux.

The games are coded for Windows though, so obviously it will run better on Windows. You can't blame Linux for that

[HopperJF]

cv643d wrote:
Im running Ubuntu on my fileserver at the moment, it was a pleasure to install. On my workstation I am going to run XP and Ubuntu, dual boot (XP for Word, Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver). Currently on Vista and I am not going to miss it.

Choice is good but I think it is positive to have one big mainstream Linux and not call it Linux in the name. I hate that f"n penguin  :-)

Oi, that is my new avatar you are talking about  ;-)

Yep after 2 days, I have decided Linux is for me. Unfortuately there is the odd-time I need to boot into Windows (at the moment my printer is unsupported) and for my video editing software, but for 95% of the time I am now on Ubuntu and it is a great fast operating system. :-)

The last time I booted into XP I was irritated at how slow it was after being used to the responsiveness of Ubuntu.

[HopperJF]

Give it time, Linux has came a long long way since the first time I used SuSe 7.3 PPC in 2002.

As a noob, I take it that downloading and installing 8.04 automatically overwrites 7.10, and does NOT create another partition?