Gaming linux?

[Arm the Homeless]

All that for sudo?

Arch doesn't even have sudo installed by default.

 

[piratesmack]

All that for sudo?

Arch doesn't even have sudo installed by default.

Yeah, sudo sucks...

As far as I know, the only way to really remove anything in Debian/Ubuntu is to rebuild all the packages that have it listed as a dependency.

 

[Ferrariman]

I hate some linux distros because they don't fix much that was wrong with Windows.

 

[wolffangalchemist]

Ubuntu is ok for a start but it's more or less a starter or family usage Linux OS and nothing more.
arch is great when you get some experience under your belt, but i leave a Ubuntu install for friends to use when they come over, i hate it when people use your computer and start trying to mess with things.

 

[PettingZoo]

Ubuntu is ok for a start but it's more or less a starter or family usage Linux OS and nothing more.
arch is great when you get some experience under your belt, but i leave a Ubuntu install for friends to use when they come over, i hate it when people use your computer and start trying to mess with things.

+1, I do that on my mac with parallels when someone asks to use it instead of having the sleep lockscreen.

 

[chA1nBull3t]

Yeah, this is one of the reasons I use Slackware.
It's package manager doesn't try to autoresolve dependencies for you.
The system administrator is responsible for that.

Yes!
Slackware is where it's at.

 

[piratesmack]

Hmm....
I've been hearing a lot of good things about Arch, I think I'll check it out when I get faster internet.

And maybe

 

[emupaul]

1+
for linux useful for homebrew development, and in general good for people that know why they are using linux for in the first place and sadly that is not the generally the case.

screenshot from my thinkpad laptop.

Spoiler

 

[juggernaut911]

The best thing about it that you dont have to worry about damn malware virus crap anymore

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Funny, I use Windows without the fear of viruses. All you need to do is browse safe, download safe. You may like linux for it's lack of viruses but still I personally don't plan on switching since I dual booted before with Vista/Ubuntu and Ubuntu was just terrible! I went the the IRC Arizona team channel where there are people who really know what they are talking about and they were stunned at all the errors I was getting. The only reason I wanted to try Ubuntu was XWindows manager which in turn became Compiz Fusion. just a gimmicky thing that brings in the users but now it kinda seems generic.

ONTOPIC:
Pros - Customization, helpful people (community on IRC and forums are awesome, GRUB, pretty
Cons - Don't expect drivers for all your stuff, needing 'sudo' every other effing line, too pretty (

)

 

[Arm the Homeless]

Linux has drivers for most things. Use newer kernels.

And sudo shouldn't be a downside, it's one of the things that makes Linux more secure than Windows.

 

[Raki]

The best thing about it that you dont have to worry about damn malware virus crap anymore

.

Funny, I use Windows without the fear of viruses. All you need to do is browse safe, download safe. You may like linux for it's lack of viruses but still I personally don't plan on switching since I dual booted before with Vista/Ubuntu and Ubuntu was just terrible! I went the the IRC Arizona team channel where there are people who really know what they are talking about and they were stunned at all the errors I was getting. The only reason I wanted to try Ubuntu was XWindows manager which in turn became Compiz Fusion. just a gimmicky thing that brings in the users but now it kinda seems generic.

ONTOPIC:
Pros - Customization, helpful people (community on IRC and forums are awesome, GRUB, pretty
Cons - Don't expect drivers for all your stuff, needing 'sudo' every other effing line, too pretty (

)

Compiz is great - you can get usefull stuff like that exposé like effect or multiple desktops with ease

and you won't need sudo for every line with using "Sudo -s"...then you're root

 

[Mangofett]

Well... problem with 'most' is that it's not 'all'.

Butttt I just got Linux installed in a virtual machine woot (inspired by emupaul)

 

[Ferrariman]

Linux has drivers for most things. Use newer kernels.

And sudo shouldn't be a downside, it's one of the things that makes Linux more secure than Windows.

I tried Ubuntu, Linux Mint, DSL, opensuse and Fedora on an old-sih PC and none of them could find any graphics drivers.

 

[UltraMagnus]

Linux has drivers for most things. Use newer kernels.

And sudo shouldn't be a downside, it's one of the things that makes Linux more secure than Windows.

I tried Ubuntu, Linux Mint, DSL, opensuse and Fedora on an old-sih PC and none of them could find any graphics drivers.

it could be an obscure graphics card, but basic VESA drivers should work with anything. If they didn't work on this machine it definitely has a weird card.

 

[Arm the Homeless]

Or maybe you should use a decent distribution.