I piss on Windows, and screw styleXP. My custom KDE look kicks ass!

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"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

Last edited by shaolin_Z on Jan-14-2007 at 05:54

The biggest complaint I have with linux was trying to remember the dozens of command lines to set things up properly, that and I couldnt play Quake and other computer games on it at the time. Mind you they made it a lot prettier than I remember it being back in 1999 or whenever it was I last was given a 'linux' machine to co-habit with by my geek stepfather as some kind of parental bonding thing.

I'm pretty sure one of the reasons he still doesnt talk to me is because I installed windows 98 over it...

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Originally posted by Lilith The biggest complaint I have with linux was trying to remember the dozens of command lines to set things up properly, that and I couldnt play Quake and other computer games on it at the time. Mind you they made it a lot prettier than I remember it being back in 1999 or whenever it was I last was given a 'linux' machine to co-habit with by my geek stepfather as some kind of parental bonding thing.

Well, you don't really need to worry about all that now since alot of distros have installation wizards that take care of all of that for you.

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Originally posted by Lilith I'm pretty sure one of the reasons he still doesnt talk to me is because I installed windows 98 over it...

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

windows for ever

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Originally posted by christos windows for ever

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

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Originally posted by ogvh5150 'nuff said:

Yellow highlights for the n00bs ?

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

More like some people have the attention span of a fly. They just go for the easy stuff they want to read and never actually picking up a book other than "How To Use Windows XP: An Illustrated Guide".

Present company excluded:

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Originally posted by Lilith The biggest complaint I have with linux was trying to remember the dozens of command lines to set things up properly, that and I couldnt play Quake and other computer games on it at the time. Mind you they made it a lot prettier than I remember it being back in 1999 or whenever it was I last was given a 'linux' machine to co-habit with by my geek stepfather as some kind of parental bonding thing. I'm pretty sure one of the reasons he still doesnt talk to me is because I installed windows 98 over it...

I have this book. Ironically I don't have Linux on any PC at the moment.

Or try:

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Last edited by ogvh5150 on Jan-16-2007 at 22:21

Least it got simpler, back way back when I got lumped with the box and a 350 page book on how to use it and another book which was about 600 pages of how to set up your redhat linux. I'm not very academic at the best of times and even worse if it's not something that interests me, (which it didnt and then some) it was basically enough to make a Nun say 'GOD DAMN IT!' a lot, goodness knows I did.

^^ It's really not that big hastle to install/maintain linux anymore, especially now that there's tons of forums/faqs where 99% of problems one might run in to are already answered, usually with step by step instruction on how to take care of them, even the exact commands that you can copy/paste in a console window.

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"The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me." -Martin Niemöller

The biggest task is finding a distro which supports all the hardware in your PC, i usually run into a problem with one piece of hardware or another..

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Originally posted by Lilith Least it got simpler, back way back when I got lumped with the box and a 350 page book on how to use it and another book which was about 600 pages of how to set up your redhat linux. I'm not very academic at the best of times and even worse if it's not something that interests me, (which it didnt and then some) it was basically enough to make a Nun say 'GOD DAMN IT!' a lot, goodness knows I did.

I first started out trying RH8 and that was not intuitive because I didn't know Red Hat needed to be told where your windows ntfs drives were.

But there was google, so I figured that whatever error message came up I can google it. I mostly needed to try linux for gaming so it was a matter of typing simple words in google like "linux quake" or "unreal tournament linux".

It worked simple for me just like shaolin_Z says.

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