How many of you completely switched to Linux?

[monkeybrain2012]

. Most consumers like to use closed source systems and applications like adobe cs, matlab, ms office, and all the video games..

Most computer users don't use Adobe CS. There is only a very vocal minority who must have CS for work and a bunch of people who pirate it and use < 5% of its features (your regular users don't pay $700 + for it) Gamers are again a minority as pointed out. Matlab is not a common application but for those who need it (me) it runs natively in Linux.

[monkeybrain2012]

hello,
matlab runs only on windows
and therefore my question
Is there any other software ?

sorry my english isn't so good

That is because you get the Windows version. I run Matlab natively in Linux.

[Bupsss]

Just a quick update.

I did install a fresh 12.10 version.
But before doing this I did a very quick and dirty research about most of the apps (not desktop softwares) I use most on win8.

I have to say... I never really focused on it (why should have I... it worked easily on win), but I discovered that chrome apps store has pretty much most of the apps I use....

ok they don't look as good.. but they work nicely

Now... I only have to find a way to get rid of unity but still keeping some of its features

I think Win8... will run nicely on the virtualbox...

[craig10x]

Just a quick update.

I did install a fresh 12.10 version.
But before doing this I did a very quick and dirty research about most of the apps (not desktop softwares) I use most on win8.

I have to say... I never really focused on it (why should have I... it worked easily on win), but I discovered that chrome apps store has pretty much most of the apps I use....

ok they don't look as good.. but they work nicely

Now... I only have to find a way to get rid of unity but still keeping some of its features

I think Win8... will run nicely on the virtualbox...

You might want to give unity a try for a while...you would be surprised how quickly it can "grow on you"...that happened to many here, including myself....i thought at first i wouldn't care for it but then spent about 2 weeks (with a positive attitude) and really got to like it a lot...

The "key" thing is to put all your favorites and most used apps on the unity dock for easy "1 click" access...

[ACubed10]

You might want to give unity a try for a while...you would be surprised how quickly it can "grow on you"...that happened to many here, including myself....i thought at first i wouldn't care for it but then spent about 2 weeks (with a positive attitude) and really got to like it a lot...

The "key" thing to is to put all your favorites and most used apps on the unity dock for easy "1 click" access...

I completely agree with this. Unity has grown on me. Love hitting my command key on my apple keyboard and bringing up the unity search for the apps i don't use on my dock. also the command + s key to switch workspaces. Love it!

[Zombie Acorn]

Gaming is the main reason I keep a Windows partition, with Steam implementing support for linux I am pretty sure we will see much more focus in that area soon.

[ACubed10]

Gaming is the main reason I keep a Windows partition, with Steam implementing support for linux I am pretty sure we will see much more focus in that area soon.

very true. Although I am starting to grow out of gaming a bit as I get older. The only game I play from time to time is World Golf Tour, which is a browser based golf game. Very realistic and fun

[chauveau]

+1 since april 2006 and I switched also almost all my family sine (+6)

[kibosh81]

I installed Ubuntu on my desktop about 3 months ago and haven't looked back. Since then I have converted all of my machines to ubuntu and Lubuntu on one slow G4 powerbook. I had to boot windows the other day on my girlfriends machine in it blew me away how much I dislike it after such a short time away! LOL. That being said, The powerbook has been a very difficult battle. As of now I have tried several distros on it with mixed results but keep ending up with Lubuntu although even that is sub-par on PPC..... Time to pitch it I think.

[Arceus Ryan]

Hey , New guy here . I have completely moved to Linux, love it ,Tux started learning me about 2 years ago and there is no going back to windows,not a gamer , Have tried different Versions ,I'm running Backtrack 5R3 now,


trying to get a rockfish usb bluetooth adapter to work on a thinkpad z61t if anyone can help please ? ,

this is where I'm at , I tried sudo hciconfig hci0 reset.
sudo hcitool dev

I am trying to configure it or find the device with bluetooth manager but it does not discover it