Hero999 said:
Linux can be just text, graphics are optional.
I found Linux quite easy to install and set up, it's just installing software can be a pain and let's not get started on drivers that don't come with the distribution.
DOS was only easy because it was such a simple primitive OS, even so it was hard, remember having to keep enough conventional memory to run games? That miserable 640kB really was a pain.
I'd like to get into Linux more but I'm too easilly distracted. This forum being one of my prime distractions!
Then read this forum in Linux!!!! (oprah for linux you know
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I do, well I use Lynx (IF I have borked my Gentoo desktop in ricing) or FF
bloody-orc said:
you say DOS is hard to use? i think linux is even worse. For me linux is the worse OS ever made on a user friendly point of view. it is safe yes, it is fast also yes but it's god damn hard to get all of that up and running and keep it running without crashing your computer... Dos is easy, just text. dir over here and dir over there... too bad no internet browsing though...
(god damn must install dos on my laptop again... it would be so cool to work in dos in school... or to use norton commander instead... hmm.... so many OS's to choose from.
Ubuntu is really easy to install, infact it is actually easier and faster to install then windows.
Yes all the good low-level stuff is done in a terminal (or DOS-box) but you don't have to
Ubuntu (or kubuntu if you want a more windows-feel) has all teh gUI admin tools you need
The thing with Linux is it is consistant!. Every windows release it is starting from scratch seeing where they have moved stuff to, Office is even worse!!
Linux is not hard (these days) it is just different
I am interesting in this "crashing your computer" I have a linux server which at present has an uptime of 3months (would of been higher but had to change part of the kernel). Equally my gentoo desktop I have left on for days with no problems (let alot this mysterious "crashing" you mention)
My present Gentoo install is ~4year old and I have only installed it once. Windows... Well present install is 1month old.
It takes a whole weekend to install Gentoo (but that is everything, even the compiler from source), but it takes XP a whole weekend to install once you get all the updates, then all the programs in between all the reboots
it takes XP 90min to install with format to the first usable desktop (and that is baby-sitting it as well). AND that is just stock useless/vuln XP.
in that time in installing Ubuntu you would have
desktop
Office
Gimp
games
admin
updates.... with no reboot!
so what is harder? trust me, linux is not hard