I would have shifted to Linux if ....???

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Share why u chose other OS over unique Linux !!!
or What were ur simple problems over strange Linux

Like few of them r listed below

No Ifs, No Buts..
I am already a Linux user

everything is ter in windows,you have more choices,more flexibility, so didnt felt the need to switch

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...linux had viruses and spywares and adwares and BSOD's.

I think this Linux OS is really bad, here are my points.

1. We can't use pirated linux. That sux.

2. There is no fun in Linux, I mean like no viruses, no adwares etc.

3. Linux is very borring, like its stable and reliable, so not much reboots

4. Almost everything comes with Linux is free for a normal user. So its forcing user not to buy anything. I do not like forcing.

5. Linux servers are the most widely used and reliable ones, so I prefer to be different and use some other OS.

more points to come ....

If it showed me a Blue Screen of Death.

din said:
I think this Linux OS is really bad, here are my points.

1. We can't use pirated linux. That sux.

2. There is no fun in Linux, I mean like no viruses, no adwares etc.

3. Linux is very borring, like its stable and reliable, so not much reboots

4. Almost everything comes with Linux is free for a normal user. So its forcing user not to buy anything. I do not like forcing.

5. Linux servers are the most widely used and reliable ones, so I prefer to be different and use some other OS.

more points to come ....

lol.yea keep them coming.

i am using GNU/Linux for past 4 years.and wants to shift to GNU Operating System if GNUers achieves their goal of creating GNU OS.so far GNU/hurd is sloww in development.

i want to use OpenBSD or FreeBSD,but it lacks drivers for h/w.now looking forward to the works of sun with opensolaris as a possible linux replacement.

1) It can play Hi Fi Games (Not Potato Man)

2) It had varaity of aplications as Win Has

3) It had more driver suppport

...If I managed to get one up and running perfectly

Wud you believe it...I have installed 3-4 different flavors of linux on my PC/laptop but never managed to get one working fully

Some hardware problem or something else always manages to creep in...Waiting for Ubuntu 7.10..Hope this will break the jinx

Assuming that the title of the thread is correct, meaning that I would have shifted to Linux if I was not already using it

Your question in the first post however, asks about shifting from Linux to other OS. That would be when I get a mac.

wireless support is still lacking in Linux.not the fault of Linuxers,wireless company's are not providing.

eggman said:
1) It can play Hi Fi Games (Not Potato Man)

Try Metal Blob Solid :))

Games arent always about graphics, they're also about gameplay and tactics! Is that what you meant by Hi-Fi?

Ankur Gupta said:
...If I managed to get one up and running perfectly
Wud you believe it...I have installed 3-4 different flavors of linux on my PC/laptop but never managed to get one working fully
Some hardware problem or something else always manages to creep in...Waiting for Ubuntu 7.10..Hope this will break the jinx

Innovation is one day thing
Development is constant

din said:
I think this Linux OS is really bad, here are my points.

1. We can't use pirated linux. That sux.

2. There is no fun in Linux, I mean like no viruses, no adwares etc.

3. Linux is very borring, like its stable and reliable, so not much reboots

4. Almost everything comes with Linux is free for a normal user. So its forcing user not to buy anything. I do not like forcing.

5. Linux servers are the most widely used and reliable ones, so I prefer to be different and use some other OS.

more points to come ....

6.Linux Uses too much memory & its effects are ver very poor
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How About LGA (Linux Genuine Advantage)
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I would have shifted to Linux if .... it was better than windows

If Shi++y sorry Sify had a decent client, now that I have MTNL, I run it in virtual machine on my laptop becoz the laptop volume buttons do not work natively and Compaq refuses to provide drivers.

I would have shifted to Linux if It is becomes windows

I hate linux to be different than windows

iMav said:
I would have shifted to Linux if .... it was better than windows

Linux kernel(or BSD UNIX)are anyway anytime better than windows and dos :lol:

are u shifting?windows (Vista) is just a gaming shell used by fa^*ots!

iMav said:
I would have shifted to Linux if .... it was better than windows

Better is a relative word

If at all my old PC has option of booting from USB port or my optical drives are working....

^^LMAO.

Man try that method na which nucleus suggested.
BTW How do you install windows?

drgrudge said:
If at all my old PC has option of booting from USB port or my optical drives are working....

Then linux is cr@p as linux does not run on NEW computer and laptops. there is no driver support.

6.Linux Uses too much memory & its effects are ver very poor

wrong linux uses memory more efficiently.for more u shud see the linux kernel changelog.so 6th point is a FUD.
*gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_Linux_Memory_Management
*linux-mm.org/

It saved my time in troubleshooting. Type this , that, etcc and what and all! Come on everybody are not geeks!

kalpik said:
Better is a relative word

and subjective too ...

PS: hence i used it ....

The_Devil_Himself -
Need to get my lazy @$$ to do that. Now that I got an UL connection, I should offer no excuses for that.

Planning to start a thread in OSS section soon to get support for my nOObish questions.

I installed XP before things like that happened. This is the 9th year of my PC and for 6 months or so only the optical drives are not working. That too I'm sure it would've worked had I been used my PC often.

din said:
1. We can't use pirated linux. That sux

you can always pirate Red Hat enterprise or SuSE enterprise. btw, i'd have use linux if i could get DataOne working there. I tried the tutorial posted on this forum.. but in the first step itself.. i got no listing in the nic window

rohan said:
you can always pirate Red Hat enterprise or SuSE enterprise. btw, i'd have use linux if i could get DataOne working there. I tried the tutorial posted on this forum.. but in the first step itself.. i got no listing in the nic window

Uhh, how can you pirate it? Its support you pay for there, and the repositories which are secured with an access based system ... :-\

praka123 said:
wrong linux uses memory more efficiently.for more u shud see the linux kernel changelog.so 6th point is a FUD.
*gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_Linux_Memory_Management
*linux-mm.org/

That was a prank
Atleast understand it when I say LGA

Windows just $uk$
Vista has all features either copied from Linux or From Mac

People at microsoft at great at innovating from what already exists

gaurav_chd88 said:
Vista has all features either copied from Linux or From Mac

Usually for Linux, its linux which copied everything from Vista & Mac OS

Beryl was copied from Aero/Aqua which uses a GPU to render the UI.

compiz started as independent development by suse novell before aero surfaced on earth.the words are FUD.

praka123 said:
compiz started as independent development by suse novell before aero surfaced on earth

Wrong, Microsoft demonstrated the GPU accelerated UI in 2003 with Longhorn 5xxx builds. Compiz came after that & is still under developement for stability & features to use a GPU efficiently, while Aero is already stable & final which scales according to the GPU.

gx_saurav said:
Wrong, Microsoft demonstrated the GPU accelerated UI in 2003 with Longhorn 5xxx builds. Compiz came after that & is still under developement for stability & features to use a GPU efficiently, while Aero is already stable & final which scales according to the GPU.

GFX requirements for Vista: Nvidia 5200 GPU
GFX requirements for compiz: Intel onboard

Hmm.. i wonder which is more GPU efficient..

kalpik efficiency cannot be gauged by the gfx adapter required

I would have shifted to linux if I would have got the various softwares for Ubuntu even without an internet connection

like that of windows

iMav said:
kalpik efficiency cannot be gauged by the gfx adapter required

Gah, GPU efficiency can't be gauged by the adapter? What can gauge it then? :\

QwertyManiac said:
Gah, GPU efficiency can't be gauged by the adapter? What can gauge it then? :\

How much work a GPU is able to do per clock cycle then other GPU.

For exaple, A GeForce 8600GT running at 100 Mhz does more work then a GeForce 8400GT running at 200 MHz.

GFX requirements for Vista: Nvidia 5200 GPU
GFX requirements for compiz: Intel onboard

Hmm.. i wonder which is more GPU efficient..

Beryl is indeed more light but not efficient. Efficieny is different. I m myself saying from day 1 of longhorn beta that everything Aero provides or shows can be achieved in DirectX 8 but the speed & GPU resource usage will be higher then a direct x 9 version because DirectX 9 version of aero can do more work per click cycle of GPU then DirectX 8 version of Aero