What is the Advantage of Linux compared to, say Windows?
[QUOTE=Landre899;34107531]What is the Advantage of Linux compared to, say Windows?[/QUOTE]
Let's see:
Updates fix things, they don't break things.
Everything ([u]everything[/u]) can be updated through one single command in the console.
A helpful and knowledgeable community to help you with anything and everything.
You can more than literally do [u]anything[/u] with it. [i]On[/i] anything. It may even install to a toaster.
Better memory management.
"Being admin" (called root) [i]actually[/i] means "being admin" (as in, you can remove [u]anything[/u]. It does not mean "you can break your computer but not uninstall your AV or kill that process".
A system that is fully responsive even under 99% CPU load.
No viruses.
Everything is free. Not just the OS, but also all the other stuff that you need, like a document processor.
Unnecessarily complicated driver installation, begone with thee!
On the top of my mind.
[QUOTE=Frugle;33895548]I really want to install some Linux distro that I can use for programming and Internet browsing. I've tried Ubuntu and Xubuntu but I've always given up on them after few hours. Going to try Mint 12 today.[/QUOTE]
Uhh... Ubuntu is Mint, Mint is Ubuntu. Except the DE is different, and you can install Cinnamon in Ubuntu anyways.
[editline]8th January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Surma;34110315]Let's see:
[B]Updates fix things, they don't break things.[/B]
Everything ([u]everything[/u]) can be updated through one single command in the console.
A helpful and knowledgeable community to help you with anything and everything.
You can more than literally do [u]anything[/u] with it. [i]On[/i] anything. It may even install to a toaster.
Better memory management.
"Being admin" (called root) [i]actually[/i] means "being admin" (as in, you can remove [u]anything[/u]. It does not mean "you can break your computer but not uninstall your AV or kill that process".
A system that is fully responsive even under 99% CPU load.
No viruses.
Everything is free. Not just the OS, but also all the other stuff that you need, like a document processor.
Unnecessarily complicated driver installation, begone with thee!
On the top of my mind.[/QUOTE]
Not true..
[QUOTE=Baldr 2.0;34112430]Don't know what you are smoking but I would stop.[/QUOTE]
Okay you're being dumb.
Someone had a helpful guide on the differences between windows and linux...
Ah, I think I found it: [url]http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm[/url]
At least to me, Linux is sanely designed.
Windows feels like it was made by someone with Schizophrenia.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;34115543]At least to me, Linux is sanely designed.
Windows feels like it was made by someone with Schizophrenia.[/QUOTE]
I enjoy both, Windows has a better UI.
[QUOTE=belgiumtoast;34115661]Windows has a better UI.[/QUOTE]
I take it you've experienced every window manager/composition manager/desktop (login) manager/icon set combination that exists?
[QUOTE=belgiumtoast;34115661]I enjoy both, Windows has a better UI.[/QUOTE]
I don't care about GUIs honestly.
I just have a web browser, an Email client, a music player, and a chat client.
Everything else I do in the CLI for the most part.
The CLI in Linux is why Linux makes sense to me. I have a hard time using Windows because cmd is garbage.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;34118062]I have a hard time using Windows because cmd is garbage.[/QUOTE]
This
so hard
If Windows had built on the cmd more, then I doubt the CLI would be as "scary looking" as it seems now.
I'm REALLY starting to dislike Gnome Shell. The window border feels HUMONGOUS and generally bloated, however the rest I like.. Generally everything feels like it's bigger than it needs to be.
I'm having this odd problem on my box. Whenever I copy files to a device that isn't my hard drive, the progress bar acts weird.
I was trying to copy this one large file off to another box through smb. The share was mounted with mount.cifs. The progress for the file would jump to 30-40% and then stay there. I canceled it assuming it was stuck.
Today, I was copying music to my new phone and something similar happened. For every file, the progress bar would jump a bit, then it would stay there, until the file was done copying and move on to the next file where it would do the same thing. All the files seemed to have been transfered properly.
My theory to what is happening is that the progress jumps at the start ahead of where it should be, then it stays there until the file catches up.
This happens with GUI file managers, rsync, cp and whatever else I tried.
[B]Edit: [/B]When I say that I used rsync, I don't mean rsync over ssh, I mean that I mounted the file system (or share in that case) and used rsync to copy from one to the other.
When I did use rsync over ssh everything worked fine and dandy.
cp doesn't have a progress bar, so what do you mean?
I guess not with cp then... Everything that would have a progress bar would do it.
[QUOTE=Surma;34110315]Let's see:
Updates fix things, they don't break things.
Everything ([u]everything[/u]) can be updated through one single command in the console.
A helpful and knowledgeable community to help you with anything and everything.
You can more than literally do [u]anything[/u] with it. [i]On[/i] anything. It may even install to a toaster.
Better memory management.
"Being admin" (called root) [i]actually[/i] means "being admin" (as in, you can remove [u]anything[/u]. It does not mean "you can break your computer but not uninstall your AV or kill that process".
A system that is fully responsive even under 99% CPU load.
No viruses.
Everything is free. Not just the OS, but also all the other stuff that you need, like a document processor.
Unnecessarily complicated driver installation, begone with thee!
On the top of my mind.[/QUOTE]
You forgot to say that it's open-source and most distros are also built on mostly open-source software, but I guess long-time windows users don't find it important, while it really is.
[QUOTE=kukiric;34125174]You forgot to say that it's open-source and most distros are also built on mostly open-source software, but I guess long-time windows users don't find it important, while it really is.[/QUOTE]
Then why are you using Windows? assuming you're a long time windows user.
[QUOTE=belgiumtoast;34125511]Then why are you using Windows? assuming you're a long time windows user.[/QUOTE]
not all Windows software runs perfectly on Linux.
[QUOTE=FPtje;34126375]not all Windows software runs perfectly on Linux.[/QUOTE]
Judging by what he said he would prefer the opensource alternative.
[QUOTE=belgiumtoast;34126464]Judging by what he said he would prefer the opensource alternative.[/QUOTE]
You can't always do what you'd want to.
[QUOTE=belgiumtoast;34125511]Then why are you using Windows? assuming you're a long time windows user.[/QUOTE]
I am because I have not discovered Open-Source operating systems like GNU/Linux before, but I still have hundreds of games on Steam.
installed chakra on my laptop.......
lots of packages i used to install on arch-linux, are not available in chakra...
package download speeds aren't at maximum every moment..
maybe i should return to archlinux?
For the download speeds, try and see if your package manager can select different mirror servers. As for the missing packages, you could probably request them, or even manually install them with a tarball (manual installation isn't recommended though).
After several weeks of using arch linux, I am satified with it. It's a good fucking feel that every day you update you are always on the latest kernel and apps, and it doesn't break. The system is incredibly responsive on 99% usage on my shitty single-core cpu, not like on Win7 where you have to use the taskmanager, and some more stuff like that, and the bash is a powerful thing.
I find it sad that computer illiterate people, even some IT teacher in my school don't know jackshit about Linux and its distros, and those are the people who say linux is shit even if they haven't use it. I want to punch them in the face.
[QUOTE=kukiric;34125174]You forgot to say that it's open-source and most distros are also built on mostly open-source software, but I guess long-time windows users don't find it important, while it really is.[/QUOTE]
That was what I meant by free.
[QUOTE=belgiumtoast;34110882][editline]8th January 2012[/editline]
Not true..[/QUOTE]
Not completely true and somewhat unfair, given a second consideration, I agree.
Windows doesn't always break after updates and Linux doesn't always not break after updates, but I do personally see a trend in such directions.
Help.
I'm currently tryingto install [url=http://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/]Reaver[/url]
However, when I try to run ./configure it tells me
"checking for sqlite3_open in -lsqlite3... no
error: sqlite3 library not found!"
But "apt get install sqlite3" tells me I already have the livrary installed.
What do?
[QUOTE=Killuah;34151674]Help.
I'm currently tryingto install [url=http://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/]Reaver[/url]
However, when I try to run ./configure it tells me
"checking for sqlite3_open in -lsqlite3... no
error: sqlite3 library not found!"
But "apt get install sqlite3" tells me I already have the livrary installed.
What do?[/QUOTE]
Run this, post results:
[code]ls /usr/lib/ | grep sqlite3
ls /usr/local/lib/ | grep sqlite3[/code]
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