Topic: Linux is such a horrible OS (for casual users) - page 3. (Read 7057 times)

show me where any Distro is faster than windows 8. i'll show you flying pig and jimmy hoffa's dead body.

show me where any Distro is faster than windows 8. i'll show you flying pig and jimmy hoffa's dead body.

(...)still would prefer Windows Vista to all Windows OS's to date besides Win 2000, which is still the best OS msoft ever made in my opinion.

linux mint is a fucking dumpster fire. that dev team never has their shit together, its breaking every 3 fucking days. their forums are full of fuckwads who don't know shit and are misleading other users who don't know shit.

ubuntu is ok if you are cool with the commercial company who made it spying on your every move. they collect usage activities, aka they have a backdoor into your system just like Microsoft does, its a a commercial agreement the NSA makes commercial OS developers sign.

how about this list:

if you love Windows 8 -> Fedora Core 22

if you love Windows 2000-> Puppy Linux or DamnSmallLinux

if you love Windows Vista-> Lubuntu

if you love DOS -> FreeBSD

ps: Someonelse was lying about Linux being faster than Windows. this is simply false, reason being that Linux cleans the full stack and cleans up after its self, where as Windows is more like a sloppy child, dropping temp data all over the place, half ass clearing memcache, dropping saved files in the first available sectors it will fit, etc. So yes, Linux is better for your computer, but it cannot ever be faster than Windows on identical hardware without becoming a sloppy child itself.

Signed,
         a lover of all OS's

I tried gaming in Wine, that didn't go so well. I think that was definitive motion that kept me on Windows. I even tried gaming in VMware install in ubuntu and got error msg about incompatible vid driver or what not.

The only game I play lately is daytrading.  , Growing up sucks.

Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena video game, and the stand-alone sequel to the Defense of the Ancients (DotA) mod. Developed by Valve Corporation, the game was released on July 9, 2013 for Microsoft Windows, utilizing a free-to-play business model. OS X and Linux versions of Dota 2 were released on July 18, 2013. Dota 2 is exclusively available through Valve's content delivery platform, Steam.

Today like most days after playing my Dose of TeamFortress2 I went to play DoTA2.

there is also this website, http://pixlr.com/editor/ its like photoshop-lite in your browser. be forewarned, you must have flash installed, which depending on your ability in the terminal can be a pain in the ass to install, but if you're a linux die hard who likes to pixelate its atleast worth investigating.

I tried Linux several times.  I always had to resort to Windows because there's no quality alternative to Photoshop (GIMP is just the worst PoS software I've ever used, the buttons actually got stuck all the time.  And there was painting software named Krita which I actually liked, but there were certain things that bugged the shit out of me.)  There's very basic support for my graphics tablet, WINE is completely unreliable, most games work only on Windows (although I mostly play TF2 now and it works great on Linux), there's no good alternative to Word and Excel (the ones I tried looked ugly; yes, appearance is important to me), not to mention the hours upon hours it took to install this thing on my PC which apparently hates Linux, trying to build the Bitcoin-QT and getting errors, trying to install any software that isn't on the repo is a huge pain, nor is there any standard to do so.  But I can look past all of that, and I did, until I couldn't work without PS or Word, and I don't even know if there's music software on Linux, but I'm pretty sure I didn't see any.

All in all, I'd say, for the casual user who just wants to browse the web and look at porn, Linux is actually a good choice, and the lighter distros are especially fast on older PCs.  But if you actually want to use your computer for something besides the internet and programming, Linux is just not there.  Yet.  If there's ever quality software that accommodates the creative crowd without requiring them to jump through hoops to get anything to work, then I'll try to pick it up again.

If you're windowz person and ever consider linux, I think ubuntu or mint

What's the Linux equivalent to Windows Sandboxie?

.......AV all seem to have a sandbox method lately.