How many of you completely switched to Linux?

[peyre]

Using only Ubuntu.

Playing 4 Windows games under wine with negligible issues.

Which 4 games?

[Erik1984]

I am playing EA Sports Cricket 2007, Tom Clansy's Hawx, NFS Most Wanted, NFS Carbon

AFAIK Hawx is DX10 capable but DX 9 is installed at my end.

My point is that Wine can work, and it's a great tool but usually not for the newest stuff. When games are a few years old or use older DirectX versions they might work. But nearly always there are some glitches even with games which are reported to run 'perfectly'.

[dg_vieira]

I use linux for 90% of the things I do. But I have to use windows for things like burning things to cd and dvd. Because every time I try to burn something under linux it never completes and im left with coasters

[babakott]

I switched a month ago after I bought a PS3. However, I have since gotten Portal2 and Fallout 3 working perfectly with Wine, so I game as well.

I also have Dreamweaver CS5 running under Wine, so all my needs are met.

[jal]

I use linux for 90% of the things I do. But I have to use windows for things like burning things to cd and dvd. Because every time I try to burn something under linux it never completes and im left with coasters

I'm guessing this is flame, but I found this comment so completely surprising I had to gasp.

I've never had a problem using Brasero. Surely that's not the real reason for anyone re-booting back to a windows install...

[bluestreak patriot]

Switched about six months ago. I have played with Linux, off and on, since Caldera 1 was released, but only got serious about it about six months ago and started running a dual-boot set-up with Windows XP. I still have Windows 7 laptops to manage for other in my family.

A few weeks ago I completed a fresh install of Ubunbtu 10.04.2 LTS to wipe Windows XP from my HD. I am also running a fresh install of Windows XP in Oracal VM VirtualBox to use as a crutch when I get stuck trying to figure out how to accomplish something new in Linux and cannot take any more time on researching. Windows XP runs super fast within VM VirtualBox.

My system is a 2005 era AlienWare Aurora box and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS really flies on this older system.
My basic hardware is as follows:
AMD 64 3800 E 514KB Cache 939-PIN CPU
Ajigo Athelon 64 Heatsink Fan MF043-044 (Rev. 2 processor)
2 GB of "high quality" RAM
500GB WD5000AALS-00D2B0 /dev/sda
165 GB HDS722516VLSSA80 / dev/sdb
BFG Nvidia GeForce 6800GT 256MB graphics processor
GFX CK03-1225 Dual Slot Card Keeper
Mobo Abit AV-8
SATA Host Adapter VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller w/2 Ports
Enermax EG-465P-VE 24P ATX 103 460Watt power supply
Atech 10 in 1 Pro 9 Media Reader

[ppqq]

I made a dual boot with ubuntu natty in June this year, and after a week I was able to wipe my WinXP OS -after 15 years of MS! and expanded the Linux partition with gparted live cd. I wasn't quite to grips with the software I needed to work with but was confident I'd find the right stuff. I'm set up on 64bit now, hoping for improvements with video encoding... but still learning to use kdenlive with AVCHD.
LibreOffice 3.4
k3b (best cd/dvd burner in my opinion)
krusader
nautilus scripts
classic menu indicator
banshee
ffmpeg/x264
picasa (with symlink to storage partition for Google dir)
gimp
gwenview
multimedia applications from the official Kde realease
gnome mplayer
vlc
avidemux
kdenlive
winff
handbrake
kino
dvd styler
audacity
ardour gtk2
audio tag tool
easytag
xiphos
pyrenamer
gprename
deconf-tools
remastersys
firestarter
clamav
flash/java plugins
gnome-color
gconf-editor
clipit
pdfedit
wine
skype

[goldshirt9]

on my laptop only. I am fully linux ,Ubuntu 10.04 (would have been 11.04 but start up is crap.)

not on my desktop due to family usage and requirements .

love it to death on my lappy, dont get me wrong its not easy being fully Ubuntu but the internet is helpful , searching for advise from any source is a must.

[BigSilly]

Well, I posted in this thread some years ago, and if I remember correctly I was saying how I'd switched totally to Linux. Since then I ended up with Windows 7 which I wanted for some basic gaming, but PC gaming is such a royal pain in the *** that I'm coming back round again to switching to Linux solely. I only boot into Linux anyway. I dunno, what would I get for a boxed retail W7 Home? Could be worth selling.

[Sailor Mark]

I was running my Dell XP Laptop when I caught a Trojan that took over XP Security Essentials and informed me that my various programs were virus's and needed to be removed it also slowed my computer to a snails pace. It was a Win 95 Trojan. That was over a year ago, I will never go near windows again. I am running UBUNTU Studio 11.4 and it's happy happy joy joy.