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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 07:31:00 No.17266000 View View Reply Original Report

Hey guys, I've never touched a Linux system before, and I have a question. I already know the typical flame war ammo used (can't play games herp).

I am currently on a sort of hiatus from school (fucked up financial aid). I'd like to get a lappy for schoolwork on the go and I would like for it to have linux (better late than never).

Question is: what should I expect from Linux that I can't get from Windows. Does it being a laptop factor anywhere in this (which I doubt).

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 07:36:00 No.17266077 Report

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>>17266000
Stability, better out of box driver support and easier software installs

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 07:38:00 No.17266100 Report

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You will need to do some work, but after that, it will run like a dream!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 07:39:00 No.17266119 Report

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it has an overall worse software library than the other options, you'll find a lot of the software is missing features that you get with commercial software and may require more effort to get it working than the windows equivalent

if you have enough time you can roughly approximate the capabilities of windows, and it's better for certain tasks like batch file or string processing

or if you really love ricing your desktop

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 07:39:00 No.17266121 Report

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>Does it being a laptop factor anywhere in this
Wireless drivers. If your wireless adapter is something good, like Intel chances are it will be no problem. If it's a piece of garbage broadcom, it depends on what it is, might not work as well as in windows.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 07:39:00 No.17266122 Report

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Expect? Absolutely nothing since you'll be required to make everything work at some point. So I suppose you can expect to:

- put time into it, more so than Windows ever required/requires
- more command line stuff than anyone should require
- more patience than anyone should require

and many other aspects.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 07:42:00 No.17266159 Report

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>>17266000
Better out of the box driver support? Uh, no. There's a lot of hardware out there that's less than fully supported.

OP Mon 02 May 2011 07:48:00 No.17266228 Report

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Well, I have understood that it's basically a do-it-yourself. I don't mind doing some work and learning from it.

I've looked around and I've noticed that Kubuntu is the most newbie friendly? Is this true? And also, is it actually reccomended to start with?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 07:50:00 No.17266253 Report

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>>17266228
Kubuntu is the KDE version of Ubuntu and one of the shittiest KDE distros. I'd avoid it. If you're new to linux Ubuntu should be simple enough to get running, and you can do just as much on it as any other distro regardless of whatt some trolls say. Or if you don't mind a bit of work to get everything running, Arch is a good distro.

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