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Work with pretty much any third party accessories that you buy. Granted that's because it's tested on it as a priority. For example I bought an snes adaptor for use with emulator but 2 of the directions on the dpad don't work in linux. wish i would have read about that before buying it.
Whoever came up with the phrase "There is no such thing as a stupid question" obviously never had the internet.
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Originally Posted by paul_c2
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Linux just kicked me too, several times in one day. I upgraded Python from 2.7.3 to 2.7.5( from source, that was my mistake) and it was missing a lot of modules. At first, I tried to fix it by installing modules, but I hit a module that said it was installed, but all of the solutions to the error to me installing the module was the fix. Lucky 2.7.3 was still on my system , so I updated the PATH and python softlinks to point back to it and rebooted. The system go to the login screen but the keyboard and mouse didn't work. I remembered that I had run apt-get update and upgrade 2 days before, so I reverted back to a older kernel, installed kernel headers, and then it was back to normal...almost.
Virtualbox wouldn't start my VM's, and I had to recompile the VBox modules to match the kernel I was running( it needed those missing header files to recompile ).
All of this took hours because of the stream of errors and non-fixes from the Web that I had to deal with. Your experience with LINUX and Windows is going to vary based on your needs. There are programs in Windows that I cannot do without - Outlook, Adobe Lightroom, iTunes( and related programs like Amoeba,Bonjour, Visual Studio, Airport Express manager, active directory for my domain, etc ), and programs for LINUX that I won't give up - Plexserver,atorrent, plus it helps me at work, where many of my apps I manager run on Linux and on Windows.
To be honest , I don't think that I could give up either of them. I have 2 physical machines and several virtual machines, and they are about split 50/50 between LINUX and Windows. For games, I decided to retire from PC gaming this year and use my Xbox all of my gaming. My previous gaming/xbmc computer is sitting in the closet, waiting for something to do.
One day I'll try out an Apple computer...the Macbook Air will probably be my first Mac.
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windows is user friendly but lacks performance and security. This is a fundamental inconsistency between user friendliness and security. you most be geek to go for Linux because lots of straightforward tasks in windows, are quite complicated in Linux. For instance installing applications and drivers are much simpler in windows and you can install everything from a simple software such as a video player to a professional and sophisticated application such as CATIA in the same way. you just click some "i agree !", "next", "next" and "finish". but in Linux, its just not that easy and simple, most of the times you had to use terminal commands which is not an easy thing to do ( i mean there are a lot of commands that you can not memorize all of them and every time you want to install an application you have to search for the right commands on the net. But of course it is become much more easier these days. I am a long time windows user and i'm not a professional or programmer but i know a lot of useful stuff and my friends consider me as the Geek ! and i can solve almost any software and hardware related every day issues. But from the early years of my experience with computers, i was interested in trying Linux and i have tried a wide variety of Linux distributions (from RedHat 9.0 and start of Fedora project, first Ubuntu versions and SUSE and Mandrake) but after a couple of days or weeks of playing around these operating systems, i get frustrated by their complexity. I mean you could start learning all there is to know about windows just by playing with it and you do not need to be a computer specialist or programmer to work with windows in an advanced manner. For example i am a pharmacist and so i have almost no experience in programming or complicated computer stuff but i have managed to learn a lot by playing around windows and now i do not need any technical assistance in windows environment and actually i regularly help out friends with their computer problems. But in Linux environment i tried a lot to learn its complexities with no luck until recently when i decided to tray the latest ubuntu distribution (12.04 at the time) and i realized that in the recent years, lot of problems and complexities of Linux (specifically ubuntu) have been solved already. now i am very happy with it and i use it much more frequently. i have this vaio-sz series for about 5 years now. it was originally loaded with windows vista which you know its a pain to work with. so in the later years i have tried different windowses and even though sony provides drivers for 7 (32 and 64 bit) and windows 8 and even xp but in case of any of them i had to lose some functionality of my laptop such as functions keys not working, fingerprint sensor not supported, Bluetooth not recognized or web Cam not working. But with Ubuntu 12.04 i have managed to make all of them work smoothly and without a hitch. so i'm very pleased with this amazing hardware compatibility given the fact that laptops usually have a lot of eccentric and non-common hardware features which even in different windows OSs you could have a lot of problems about the drivers and functionality.
all in all, what i am trying to say is that current Linux distributions are just great, flexible and reliable for a daily use. For instance i had less problem with Ubuntu concerning usb connection of with my Galaxy S3 (with all those MTP problems ! ) compared to windows, which i had to install that piece of crap called Samsung kies !
the only problem with linux in general is that most professional applications which usually are extremely expensive such as Adobe products ( Photoshop, premier and so on) or engineering softwares (e.g. AutoCad, CATIA, Solidworks, Rihno, .... you name it ) and also popular high quality games ( EAgames's NFS, FIFA and a lot more) can not be found in linux simply because they are expensive and proprietary which has fundamental issue with Open Source ecosystem. these kinds of programs are very sophisticated and needs a lot of professional programming and effort to produce to cover all the expenses of production ( and of course they have to fill deep pockets of their CEO s) so i do not think that any time soon they offer their products on open source market. As the Games concerned, a lot of people prefer using professional game consuls such as Xbox, PS3 or Wii so you have good alternative for them which actually work better in those consuls compared to computers. But regarding those professional applications, there is still no simple solution at least for the time being. the other problem with Linux is that there is a lot of different distributions which are not very compatible with each other so developing those professional softwares for linux users is not a simple thing to do and they have to develop numerous different applications in order to work with every kind of linux. but if a specific distribution of Linux, let's day ubuntu becomes main stream and the number of its users increases significantly in order to be comparable with number of windows and Mac users, this could be intresting for those companies to offer their products in Linux format.
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Ok, Honestly, I didn't read the 277 pages, so maybe this has been mentioned before, also, no way is this related to the last few posts:
Windows can take a lot of money from you to try & get you infected badly, tell your tall tales to whosoever pays them and forces nearly everybody to comply to their standards !
Linux can't do that! I guess its the philosophy!
Linux don't want to do that!
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Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh 'Buntu-ishi krimpatul !
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I also have note read all the pages in this thread; but, best on the fact that this thread came up in a search for "office 2007" I suspect that others have found that it cannot run office reliably. I Know Linux is a great system for tinkering, for people who find beating th eproductivity out of the computer to be satisfying; however, I have work to be done and can not spend my days playing with the computer or using subpar/nonstandard apps (standard is determined by the environment, not some body, and the standatd is MS Office).
I tried using Libre Office for a few days, I noticed that the formatting was a mess and that for things I do I spent longer tryign to get th esame work done in Lebre Office. It is not only due to familiarity, there are differences in features I use.
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Of the 277 pages, this is probably mentioned in at least 200 of them.
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Of course, it can also save a lot of money. It does this by providing for significantly higher levels of productiveity.
AT th esite I am working at th esite manager is about to pull th eplug on all Linux. The reason is simple. The level of productivity of th elinux users is significantly lkess. Furhter, when a person switches to linux their productivity falls and does not return to pre-Linux levels.
I am really trying to make it work for me, yet again; but, the reality is that, as an experiment, it is failing.
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What can Windows do that Linux can't?
Give you the blue screen of death' waste hardrive space get your system riddled with viruses,make microsoft billion's on a mediocre OS.
Mainly gaming though steam is coming a long way to help bridge the gap
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This is something windows does really well, it has been the 'household standard' for so long, and so many people have used it at home and at work that trying to switch to something else has become fraught with hazzard.
I compare it to driving.
The way a car works is exactly the same (the location of pedals is 'standard').
So now lets consider the differences.
Even if you drive in the same country, you can struggle with certain differences in car manufacturer due to placement of switches for lights, wipers etc. If you have been driving the same car for a long time, and it is getting late or you haven't had to turn on the wipers in a long time you can often grab at the wrong control.
If you drive in different countries trying to get used to the wheel on different sides can take a while. I still make the error in empty car parks of driving on the 'wrong side' ~ luckily it is only in car parks so nothing moves particularly quickly, one way streets are another one where I seem to often move to the left <shrugs>
This is like windows and linux software. The stuff if is of a much higher user complexity (shortcuts, menu items), and yet people expect to be able to manage al the differences in 30 seconds.
You wouldn't expect this with any other product.
Another thing is mouse or trackball.
I've used a trackball for ever, I much prefer them, I can use a mouse equally efficiently (or a touchpad), I'm not that good with a graphics tablet though. When other try to use my trackball, they are all a fumble, they so often don't want to try it that I have a mouse ready to plug in for occasions that a colleague wants to drive my pointer.
But have you ever tried using a mouse on an uneven surface, or carrying it in your hand whilst you do a presentation ~ a mouse fails terribly at this, and most people will move to a 'thumball' type device with built in laser pointer. With a trackball you don't need this extra device. You just need a semi solid surface (although nowadays I expect people should be using their telephones to control the scren).
In response to office being the standard.... standard of what.
Everytime I receive of send a word document to a colleague I feel I have to send a pdf copy at the same time, so as they can see it with the formatting that I have used. If I am using 'special' formatting for sections / tables etc, and they don't have these set on their system then it will return to the 'default' and then the word wrap etc is all gone.
Personally I would prefer to do it all in HTML, and have my colleagues open the document in a web browser, but then what happens when they want to modify it's contencts?
So the choice comes down to office 'open xml' (or DOCX in MS parlance) I have no problem with this, but now the size of the file is massive, and every 3 days the format changes ~ or breaks with every update from any sofware provider. and have you ever read the internal XML representation of the document ~ horid. Every paragraph gets its own dedicated style sheet, even it paragraph 2 uses the exact same 'styling' as paragraph 1.
If you create your own styles you are back to the same problem as with standard DOC files, If you don't send your file with the styly sheet then your colleague can't render it the same way as you, and if you do send the style sheet the file is massive, and your colleague has the problem of making sure that the main file and the style sheet are correctly linked together, and doing this is not an intuitive thing to have to do. The problem seems to be that the main file and the style sheet expect the 'path' to one another to be exactly the same on all machines.
So the standard is send as DOC, and send a pdf at the same time.
And what if you and your colleague both edit the same file on the network, and use the 'versioning' that is available in Office. The problem is just as bad. Even If you don't both have the file open at the same time, if one of you uses a different version of office the 'versioning' may be lost, and the file 'flattened' into a non versioned form.
google docs (however unhappy people may become with the idea of google having all your documents) will become the new 'standard'
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