Oh nice thanks for this thread, Im about to format my comp cause I got damn 5 trojans from windows black edition. Guess I'll install 2 partitions one regular xp and 1 ubunto.. Great!
Get a good antivirus+antispyware solution for the windows parition . Once you start using ubuntu you wont go back to xp )
Ive installed ubuntu 3 times i liked it alot but my windows programs wouldnt work and i never could figure out how to install wine.. to make windows programs work.. lol so each time i gave up after a few days then reinstalled windows.. And im really heavy into mirc scripting and ya you can use irc on ubunto but not real mirc.. i dunno mabye if id have had better toutorials on installling wine and running windows stuff on it id have stayed with it.. cause it did look cool and ran good.. But on the other hand if your going to run windows stuff all the time why not just use windows ya know.. so here i am on xp and basicly happy with it
You won't switch to Ubuntu because (a) you've tried it and don't like it, or (b) because you haven't and aren't willing to try it?
Tried it, I prefer gftp over it but neither of them really tickle my fancy. I love FlashFXP on Windows, I've fronted for a few licenses I like it so much, but I have grown attached lately to WinSCP (SFTP program for Windows) that lets me have multiple files open at once, and as soon as I hit save it uploads it, but keeps it open for me to continue editing, that feature is invaluable when I have clients that require work that I need to continually be logged in and updating a series of files for. When I'm doing new files live on a server, I like to save often and test bit by bit to make sure it's working the way I need it to, and it's a pain in the ass to constantly have to save, upload, test, download, edit, save, upload, test, repeat =/
For GIMP http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/ and http://www.gimp-tutorials.com/ might be of help. Also note GIMP has just had a new version which made some significant improvements in terms of power and ease of use. For Inkscape you could try looking at this http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TutorialsAndHelp All of the design I do on the web is with GIMP, Inkscape or the combination of the two (do something in Inkscape, export to PNG, edit in GIMP etc..). I use Konqueror for my FTP, SSH and all other remote file management needs, and now I'll plug a relevant article I've wrote on that exactly: http://www.nuxified.org/article/remote_file_management_with_kate_and_konqueror Konqueror is one hell of a swiss knife! Cheers
You know, everything is slower than it should be these days, even GNU/Linux and Ubuntu specifically. Why do I think so? Well, just look at the hardware we can run these days. Dual core CPUs with at least 1GB of RAM, powerful graphics cards etc. With this kind of hardware regularly at our fingertips nothing should be slow at all, not one bit, yet this doesn't appear to be true. So what't the conclusion? Increased bloat of course. The better our hardware gets, more bloated our software gets. Even Linux suffers from this in some cases, but as Linus Torvalds once said: "All operating systems suck, Linux just sucks less". I guess that, and the fact that I have MUCH more control with it, is why I use it.
I have over 14 years of experience in Windows and Windows Vista is the slowest and most resource intensive OS that MS has released in the history. There is NO WAY you can be productive on a low cost, 2005/2006 single core Celeron "cheap PC" even with 1GB or RAM. This is where Linux is good!. If you really really really really want to enjoy Vista you have to buy 2006/2007 fast "top of the line" Dual or Quad Core processors with 2GB++ of RAM. I consider my Intel E6600 C2D Dual Core 2.4Ghz 4MB Cache with 2GB of RAM really fast and I will never install Vista in this PC. I will still use XP for long time but Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop is now my primary OS.
Good man. Did it once or twice, it's fun and all but I hate how long it takes to get it up and running, and emerging for updates... dear god it takes forever! And Vista is crap, sadly I'm running it now because I'm working on stuff for clients, but I have a really nice laptop I bought a few months back, and it hangs fairly often. It's a dual core 2ghz, 2gb ram, and my Ubuntu partition flies, it's the whole tortoise and the hair bit, but the tortoise only wins in the long run because it's a huge monopolizing company that imo is the scourge of the earth (minus the Xbox of course), and Ubuntu isn't really a for-profit operation. If it were, it would be running big commercial campaigns and spending a lot more time making it something that windows users can easily migrate from.
Actually Ubuntu is primarily backed by Canonical, a corporation who actually founded and funded Ubuntu. They may not have any commercials yet, but they are doing some marketing and a lot to make it easier for people to switch. Since recently Dell computers also come with Ubuntu meaning that now people can get it pre-installed and working out of the box with probably more functionality than Windows ever had out of the box..
xp is the best for general using...if you need some good features you could try linux distribution...And ubuntu is the best for newbies for ex: installing packages.. But prefer and Recommend Debian GNU linux.
i heard this ubuntu first time in my life im going to try this and gona post ma review in next 1 week