Re: 100% Linux - Is it possible?
From: Robin Laing (Robin.Laing_at_drdc-rddc.gc.ca)
Date: 02/03/05
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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:43:10 -0700 To: Johnathan Bailes <johnathan.bailes@gmail.com>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Johnathan Bailes wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:38:09 +0000, Pete Choppin <pchoppin@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>I was just looking for a consensus on this...
>>
>>I have been working with Fedora Core 3 for the past month. My new years
>>resolution was to learn Linux. So far, so good.
>>
>>I created a dual-boot Fedora / Windows XP. I am now seriously considering
>>going completely 100% Linux and dumping my Windows partition entirely.
>>
>>The question is - can you live completely without Windows, or do you sooner
>>or later have to resort to Windows again?
>>
>
>
> Questions for you should be something like this:
>
> Are you a heavy PC gamer? If so, keeping windows around is a
> necessary evil even with the progress in wine. No, btw, console games
> are NOT the same and not always better.
>
> Then again, I am not a heavy gamer.
>
> Do you do a lot of Visio or work with MS Project? If so, there are no
> completely compatible solutions. Then again, I don't have a use for
> either of those programs.
>
> I do not I admit do a lot of amateur video editing and have no idea
> how linux is for that.
>
> No, if you are not put off by any of the above, then congrats you may
> be ready for the jump.
>
> I use Abiword and gnumeric to open Word and Excel docs and gaim to IM
> and I followed the FAQs and have even Quicktime videos working in
> linux.
>
> I still have a dual boot system because my wife insists we keep it but
> neither one of us has booted into the Windows side in forever.
>
> My only other bit of advice is to make sure you have plenty of ram.
> Processor speed has never been a factor for me but Fedora seems to
> like a box with 256MB or above and my laptop with 128MB feels a bit
> slow but honestly a lot snappier than it did in RH9.
>
> The downside is that you better do your homework for buying hardware
> from here on out. I have a Netgear wireless card I have to compile
> the driver for every time I get a kernel update but my Brother HL 1440
> printer and Nikon digital camera work with linux really well.
>
> The dag repositories have the gtkpod software if you have an iPod btw.
>
> The upside is that its free like speech man. There is a certain
> freedom to be out from under the commercial software shackles of
> always having to shell out cash for good programs and running in an
> open source world. Plus, it is nice to be away from l33tster warez
> culture that too many hardcore Windows folks roam around in and away
> from the routine of virus scanning and spyware scanning my box every
> night. Yuck. It is liberating at least for me. YMMV.
>
I have done video editing in Linux for the last year and half. There
are some nice free/commercial products that give Linux professional
tools for doing videos. Even been used on commercial movies such as
Scooby Doo.
Newer versions of Windows requires a larger amount of memory as well.
I doubt that the requirements for RAM is actually much different
between FC3 and Windows XP for decent operation.
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