Switch to Linux on desktop?

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Any of you heroes run Linux on your workstation? I ask because for the first time in all my 13 years of running Windows, I just got the goddamn piss kicked out of my system by a virus. Shit, I was never in love with Windows but it always worked and seemed easier than dealing with incompatibilities and all that.

So Linux is sounding a little more attractive right now. Problem is, not sure I can live without:
-Photoshop
-SEM desktop tools (AdWords editor, et all)
-Excel
-Video Games


I know Wine can work some voodoo mojo-hojo to get some of these things to run, but I have these visions of spending my evenings negotiating with a command prompt to get shit taken care of. Unfounded?

Whachuthink guyz.
 


If you mostly use Photoshop, Excel and play video games then don't switch to Linux, that's just my opinion.
 
i really want to support ubuntu but after every update half of the programs need to be tweak to work well again....

i've just updated to 10.04. All the usb port didn't work after hibernation..i know there are fix for it but i am not going to spend hours to do the research
 
Unless you want to switch to

-gimp
-Virtual box
-Openoffice
-Video Games = multiboot
 
just do it switch and never look back :), i use cross-over office when i want to use photoshop and it runs the microsoft office suite nicely for when someone sends one of those stupid .docx arrghh!!.

To be honest though it will take a while to get completely comfortable with it and learn enough to do everything you need in linux.

Maybe try one of these -

Fedora
Open Suse
Ubuntu
 
I ran Ubuntu for a year before Windows 7 came out because I couldn't fucking stand Vista.

Overall Ubuntu is a solid distro, and it constantly keeps getting better. This does not mean you won't run into any gotchas, but in general if you take a few minutes to search the Ubuntu forums you will find your answer. Their forums are awesome at getting questions answered.

However your requirements mean you either need to dual boot, or run a virtual machine. Wine also keeps getting better at emulating windows applications / games, but the newer something is the less likely it will work.

Although you don't have to use the command prompt for anything, it sure makes some things easier and faster. If you dive into it you will have to work through some problems. You can have the deepest of deep control of your system though.

You just have to realize that Linux is Linux. Linux is NOT Windows. There is a small learning curve (just like how you initially had to learn how to use Windows, which no one seems to remember ever having to do).

If you stick with Windows learn how to not be a fucking d-bag. You got pawned for a reason. Get a solid virus scanner like Avira, and for the love of god sandbox your browser at least. sandboxie kicks ass and well worth the $33 you pay for it (you can try it free for a month).

If your going to run an app that is not trusted make sure to run it through sandboxie also.
 
Rage9 said:
If you stick with Windows learn how to not be a fucking d-bag. You got pawned for a reason.
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^^^ this. It's really not that hard at all to avoid a viruses.

But if you feel you must move to linux and open office do all of your friends that live in the real world of MS office a favor and don't send them any files in open office formats cause they'll just end up wanting to stab you in the rectum with a rusty knife.
 
Why all or nothing? Redundancies or whatever, different machines/systems/software for different tasks. Use what works best for you. There of course will be overlap, but it can all be fun (or not).
 
pick the base OS that you would use the most (windows if you use Photoshop the most, Ubuntu if you code the most) then just use a VM in VirtualBox.

I recommend tinyxp or tiny7 if you go with Ubuntu as the host, windows as the guest. They're badass, perfect for VM stuff
 
I used Linux for a couple years as my main OS. I recently switched to Mac. The main difference between those two is that with Mac/Leopard you don't have to worry/know about a gazillion files and parameters like you have to with Linux.
 
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