Officially running Linux!

[Nemesis]

Isnt the purpose of Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, and a few others to be desktop distros? I am a total noob with Linux so I am asking.

Well any distro can me "made" to work on a desktop platform, however most people dont like working in terminals or command line, and prefer a GUI. OSX is an excellent example. If you put the time in to learn the OS, Linux is very safe and powerful to use in any environment.

[chrisdavis]

Well any distro can me "made" to work on a desktop platform, however most people dont like working in terminals or command line, and prefer a GUI. OSX is an excellent example. If you put the time in to learn the OS, Linux is very safe and powerful to use in any environment.

Yes but Synaptic is a GUI interface. It seems to me that Ubuntu is really trying to be a desktop OS. I have Ubuntu on a partition and it is my first real experience with Linux. I would be inclined to ditch Windows altogether if my games and a few other programs would run on Linux.

[Jecht]

Yes but Synaptic is a GUI interface. It seems to me that Ubuntu is really trying to be a desktop OS. I have Ubuntu on a partition and it is my first real experience with Linux. I would be inclined to ditch Windows altogether if my games and a few other programs would run on Linux.

Just run Wine, you can run Windows programs with it. As George said, a lot of Linux distros will have you spending a ton of time @ the command line setting things up. I'm lazy and don't do too much stuff with my computer anymore and Windows XP gives me no problems (the PC itself is another matter lol).

[superfox1]

Welcome to not having to worry about being hacked!

[chrisdavis]

Just run Wine, you can run Windows programs with it. As George said, a lot of Linux distros will have you spending a ton of time @ the command line setting things up. I'm lazy and don't do too much stuff with my computer anymore and Windows XP gives me no problems (the PC itself is another matter lol).

I have some stuff that I need that will not run under any emulation. It is really stupid on the software maker's part, but they are so adamant about not supporting emulation(Apple's parallel or Wine) that they will not even answer emails on it. I tried to get Crysis to run under Wine as well with no luck, so i just dual boot and called it a day.

[Jecht]

I have some stuff that I need that will not run under any emulation. It is really stupid on the software maker's part, but they are so adamant about not supporting emulation(Apple's parallel or Wine) that they will not even answer emails on it. I tried to get Crysis to run under Wine as well with no luck, so i just dual boot and called it a day.

Dual booting solves a lot of problems. If one OS doesn't work, just use the other. lol

I lol @ software programmers because they won't support emulation because it can create more problems for them, but they still want everyone to purchase the software and use it.