04-04-2008, 06:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-04-2008, 07:03 PM by Concillian.)
2 of my computers at home use Ubuntu.
My MythTV box uses Mythbuntu (after all the modifications I made to it, I should have done full Ubuntu)
and my file server uses Ubuntu LTS ("LTS" = Long term support, because I don't really mess with that machine much. I reboot it every 2 months so it installs any auto-updates it has downloaded. Otherwise I just leave it alone and it does it's thing) It just sits there and runs.
For the crowd who uses computers for email, web and the occasional document, Linux is a great alternative without too steep a learning curve. They have made OS install INCREDIBLY simple. It's much easier and faster for me to install Ubuntu than Windows. WAY easier.
However, inevitably you end up wanting to run software in Linux that you can't or requires significant learning to be able to setup properly. That list is shrinking, but it's definitely still there.
My MythTV box uses Mythbuntu (after all the modifications I made to it, I should have done full Ubuntu)
and my file server uses Ubuntu LTS ("LTS" = Long term support, because I don't really mess with that machine much. I reboot it every 2 months so it installs any auto-updates it has downloaded. Otherwise I just leave it alone and it does it's thing) It just sits there and runs.
For the crowd who uses computers for email, web and the occasional document, Linux is a great alternative without too steep a learning curve. They have made OS install INCREDIBLY simple. It's much easier and faster for me to install Ubuntu than Windows. WAY easier.
However, inevitably you end up wanting to run software in Linux that you can't or requires significant learning to be able to setup properly. That list is shrinking, but it's definitely still there.
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.