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Originally posted by Cyrax9
I couldn't agree more.
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Well Cyrax, you may be plaesed to hear that in between trying to get a degree and helping my mate out at getting
www.demolicious.org up and running, I have finally got Linux installed on my machine dual booting with Win2K.
And in answer to my earlier query asking whether or not Linux would ever be up to replacing windows: it already is. The only thing I can't run on Linux is games made for windows (although some of the big games like quake 3 and unreal tornament have Linux versions available) - everything else can run on one of the programs I've got bundled with this distro (the Mandrake 8.2 beta 4 edition which cost me a paltry £9 and arrived on three CD'R's) or I can emulate with WINE or something (albeit unreliably with some programs).
You think XP is stable? You ain't seen nothing chaps. I spent two hours deliberately trying to crash it, and nothing. Anything you throw at it, and it just seems to bounce right back. The blue screen of death or "explorer.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" are things of the past, to which I will bid a hearty farewell.
Linux isn't as easy to use as windows if you're not used to it, but after 10 minutes of fiddling I was able to customise my toolbar to a degree I could only dream about in windows. I am by no means finished, but I'm damned impressed with the whole thing. Linux is great.
One more thing: Linux and the internet ROCK.
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