Have you become Linuxized? (linux is normal)

[mohapi]

I'm at the stage where I'm wondering what the heck I was doing with Windows in the first place.

I spent the afternoon setting up a dual boot system for my parents. It has taken over three hours, with well over two of those spent setting up drivers, malware and virus-scanner packages for Windows.

A full hour of those two has been fighting with McAfee Security Center, which refuses to update itself except through Internet Explorer. It took me forever to figure out that it wanted IE as the default browser. I couldn't just install Firefox and move forward. What a circus.

It's still not finished updating itself, either. I've rebooted six times now. Who are these weirdos and why are they on my computer?

[mohapi]

Hmmm. Somehow my reply got moved to the top of the thread. :confused: Or is that just my machine? I feel so important! :p

Must be related to the problems they had over the weekend.

[Wallakoala]

Definetly. I can't stand to use windows anymore...
Anything that I would want to do in windows, I can do in linux just as well.
And ls is WAAAAAAAAAY easier to type than dir because l and s are both on the same row on the keyboard.

edit: woah...why do my posts keep moving up? the forums are messed today...

[Omnios]

Have you become Linuxized?

Is the way Linux works become normal to you?
Do you automaticaly try opening menus from the top of the screen?
Do you try feel lost without a terminal?

When I first looked into using Linux I saw a few screen shot's and thought to myself after seeing terminal that I would never be using that thing but now find it extreemly usefull and can not seem to go without it. The file system looked strange but now see how it works and it works rather well. Shared libraries make real good sense on my P2 with a 6 gig hard drive. Now that I have been using Ubuntu for nine months I have become Linuxized and prefeer the way Linux works over windows.

Lastly I find the way Linux can be tweeked amazing and for an medium to advanced user the way Linux works definatly makes a lot of sense.

[earobinson]

I feel naked without the terminal, so yes.

Poll to come?

[BSDFreak]

Have you become Linuxized?

Is the way Linux works become normal to you?
Do you automaticaly try opening menus from the top of the screen?
Do you try feel lost without a terminal?

When I first looked into using Linux I saw a few screen shot's and thought to myself after seeing terminal that I would never be using that thing but now find it extreemly usefull and can not seem to go without it. The file system looked strange but now see how it works and it works rather well. Shared libraries make real good sense on my P2 with a 6 gig hard drive. Now that I have been using Ubuntu for nine months I have become Linuxized and prefeer the way Linux works over windows.

Lastly I find the way Linux can be tweeked amazing and for an medium to advanced user the way Linux works definatly makes a lot of sense.

I started out with Unix so no.

BSD'inized maybe since i've started to find the SysV init system wierd after having used BSD's mostly for a decade.

[majikstreet]

Yes, I am so used to how linux works... Since I use fluxbox, I find myself constantly trying to right click on a windows pc....

I don't know if I miss a terminal, but I have run ifconfig on a windows pc before lol..

[earobinson]

I always type ls instead of dir on windows

[rjwood]

Yup!!!!!

[Stormy Eyes]

I always type ls instead of dir on windows

Yeah, me too. And I keep right-clicking on the desktop to bring up a menu, and hitting CTRL+ALT+ARROW to move to a different desktop.

[FLeiXiuS]

Absolutely, my windows machine is setup almost exactly like *nix. Putty's all over the place with my startbar at the top of the screen and another explorer bar at the bottom.

[cjm5229]

Must be, I still dual boot, but now It's Breezy on one partition. Dapper on the other.:p

[detyabozhye]

I use the command line in Windows more now. And I hate when Ctrl+Shift+V doesn't work.
And once instead of restarting Windoze, I just started a particular process from the command line, and told it to load what it needed.

[chimera]

Well I've deleted windows after using ubuntu for a month and never looked back, so yes:D

Although as far as gui goes, I have to admit I deleted the panel on the top and put everything on the bottom one(nothing to do with it being like windows, but I felt two taskbars are a waste of space when you can have everything on one).

[ctt1wbw]

Have you become Linuxized?

Is the way Linux works become normal to you?
Do you automaticaly try opening menus from the top of the screen?
Do you try feel lost without a terminal?

When I first looked into using Linux I saw a few screen shot's and thought to myself after seeing terminal that I would never be using that thing but now find it extreemly usefull and can not seem to go without it. The file system looked strange but now see how it works and it works rather well. Shared libraries make real good sense on my P2 with a 6 gig hard drive. Now that I have been using Ubuntu for nine months I have become Linuxized and prefeer the way Linux works over windows.

Lastly I find the way Linux can be tweeked amazing and for an medium to advanced user the way Linux works definatly makes a lot of sense.

I'm starting to think in Linux now. You know how you can personalize the message on your cell phone? Mine reads:

/home/ctt1wbw

lol

[aysiu]

I've definitely become Linuxized.

At work with Windows, I try to do Alt-F2 to open the Run dialogue, but I never try to do Win-R to open the Run dialogue at home with Ubuntu.

[Brunellus]

yup.

My Win2k desktop at work has the taskbar up top, and I keep wanting to jump to the terminal to do stuff.

Oh, and don't get me started about windows update and being annoyed when it goes down for a reboot...

[Orunitia]

Yeah. I've been only using linux for a good year now. Though I can't say I would miss the terminal if I didn't have to use it.

[phen]

i miss the beautiful desktop environment, 3 desktops, the terminal and its autocomplete!!!, synaptic, konqueror, amarok , k3b and kile when i am forced to use win2k at work...

i copy and paste with mouse 3!
btw: how do you replace text with the one in the clipboard? thats not supported from linux' way of copy and paste, is it?

thanks, cheers :)

[detyabozhye]

For the top panel I have the menus, a bunch of launchers, a button to kill an unresponsive app, notification area, sound, and clock. And my bottom panel is default. All that stuff wouldn't fit on one panel for me.

[prizrak]

Well my bottom panel is setup windows style, the menus, taskbar, notifier, power, sound and clock. Top is for the app launchers (it auto hides out of the way). So the interface is what I have been accustomed to over the years but I'm definetly Linuxsized, both my comps are Breezy ;) I was helping a friend with Windows and was looking for Synaptic to install something :) Kbd Shortcuts are always the shiznit. Was very surprised the other day when I installed a touchpad driver on a friend's laptop and it asked to restart the comp :)

[drummer]

I've most DEFINATELY become linuxised. I feel so lost trying to set anything up or troubleshoot in Windows (my parents use XP), without a shell there to help. I couldn't live without the shell, it's just so informative and so easy to control EVERYTHING. In Windows i often find myself staring hopelessly at the screen full of gui wizards and messages thinking: "why won't you just fix yourself!". Wizards are supposed to be there to make things easier and straightforward, but for me they just complicate the situation tenfold.

I don't think I could ever go back to using Windows full time.. and I'm glad that at Uni (which I'll be starting soon) it's pretty much all *nix in the comp labs :D

[xequence]

Nope ;)

[engla]

I'm lucky to be a complete windows-ignorant. I've never used it, and my OS X and Ubuntu boxes are tugging along nicely with similar setups. I feel just as naked without the terminal on OS X as I feel naked without Quicksilver for Ubuntu..

[I'm looking into gnome-launch-box though. I managed to recopile it with only the app module so that it runs fast and without problems. It's still 10^-10 of what Quicksilver is though.]

[Sp@z]

Unfortunatley I am not linuxized yet........I still fear linux and the terminal and try at all costs not to use the terminal.......I feel ashamed since I am writing this post in XP :(

[Ptero-4]

Well I'm linuxized too. Whenever I'm forced to use Windoze I desperatedly click at the top or right click to get my main menu, and always try to use the command prompt thinking in the terminal.

[tufkakf]

Unfortunatley I am not linuxized yet........I still fear linux and the terminal and try at all costs not to use the terminal.......I feel ashamed since I am writing this post in XP :(
No reason to be ashamed. Using Linux in and off itself doesn't make you a better person, so why be ashamed?

To answer the original post:
Certainly, whenever I have to use Windows I feel, ehm, limited.

[NoWhereMan]

Trying to learn cvs from a windows GUI and it drove me mad. I installed cvs under cygwin and here you go! I feel at home :D

[fuscia]

i am, to an extent. to me, being able to right click on the desktop, for a menu, is like opening up doors on an advent calendar. i like having nothing on the desktop but my wallpaper. i say 'to an extent' as i don't think the novelty has worn off on me yet. when i use a friends windows machine, it feels very odd to me, now.

[public_void]

Not 100%, but I'm getting there. I notice myself doing Linux things in Windows, mine is looking to the top right for the clock, or typing a bash command into DOS.

[blueturtl]

Once you get a hang of Linux, trying to use Windows feels like climbing a tree with your rear-end first (which would propably work better if I were an ape). It's just wrong. Get out of the dark ages people. :D