OT: Desk Tops

[Tim_Ward]

If you intend to use your computer to game, then you're going to need a duel boot OS anyway, because trying to get games to run under Linux with Wine or whatever is an exercise in machoism.

If that's the case, you have to ask yourself what you can do with Linux that you can't do with Windows to justify the Linux learning curve.

[President_Elect_Shang]

Ah I see your point. In that case it may be best if I resign myself to the clutches of Bill. To paraphrase Mr. Conehead it appears he has me by the base of my snargales!

[Ed Kolis]

1. Not presently, but I have for months at a time before switching back to Windows.
2. Yes, I am right now. I tried Linux because I was just getting sick of Windows and wanted to try the new rage
3. Nothing - I used free distros such as Ubuntu.
4. Yes, it just takes a bit of configuration of SAMBA.

[rdouglass]

Atrocities said:
Damn Douglass, what resolution is that set at?

1680 X 1050. It's a wide screen laptop and yes it is an unusual resolution. Great for viewing DVD's - very close to the 16x9 / 1080i type stuff.

[parabolize]

President_Elect_Shang said:
Who here is:

1. Using Linux?
2. Have you used Windows? If so why did you switch?
3. How much did it cost?
4. Can your PC talk to a Windows PC on the same network?

I ask because I have been wondering about switching my OS and I have other computers sharing the same network; the kids computers, but I need to stay connected to them. So far I have been with MS since the days of MS-DOS 3.something-er-other. Anyway I figure if I don't change soon I might as well give up. Funny how things work out. In the Army computers were part of my job. Now days I am not sure what is what and which is best. You probably don't even want to know the specs of this computer!

1. Lots of people. This forum is full of computer geeks and linux geeks are no exception.
2. Yes. Lots of reasons, but mostly political in nature (licensing and corporate practices). For the most part if the app is popular in *nix it has been ported to windows in some form or the other. I recently setup a second box with windows on it for se5 so we probably shouldn't say I switched to linux I just use it on my main computer.
3. It costs time. How much time you spend depends on what your doing. Linux can be as easy to install and use as windows if your using it for email, word processing and what not (see Ubuntu). But gaming is a pain in the butt. Some games get ported to linux (like Dominions) others will run in wine/cedega (like se4) and yet other don't run at all (like se5).
4. Yes most distributions install samba by default. It runs in the background and helps with windows networks.

[Thermodyne]

Here is my old workstation. It's just XP Royale Noir.

[Ed Kolis]

Oh yeah, my desktop... as you can see I am a Space empires junkie
Normally it's more cluttered but I recently reformatted so meh

[Wenin]

Here is my work computer's desktop.
I had to scrunch the task bar to hide the apps I'm running though. =) shhh top secret....

[President_Elect_Shang]

You still have the Demo version of SE5? Upgrading soon I hope!

[David E. Gervais]

Ok, I'll show you mine since you all showed me yours..

My Destop when I do use an image background..

Cheers!