How exactly is Linux better? Most people prefer/get windows.
Linux is smaller and faster. It may not be good in power management, but it makes up for that by being a free, open source operating system. Most people get Windows because it is "User Friendly," for my needs, linux is the best!
3. Battery doesn't seem to matter, never made a difference with me
4.Lies
5. Bending truth (alot)
6. Same with windows
7. B***l windows has much more app support.
8. and this is bad
9. They are both as up to date.
10. Seems fine to me, you already paid
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You shave maybe a 100MB of memory usage when using linux distros over Windows. Linux is great, but it is also not cross platform. Currently, Linux is very limited, but in the future I hope to see programs, programming languages, and libraries support linux. That would be the time when it matters. Right now, you are getting a tiny bit of performance back for a large amount of unsupported programs.
You shave maybe a 100MB of memory usage when using linux distros over Windows. Linux is great, but it is also not cross platform. Currently, Linux is very limited, but in the future I hope to see programs, programming languages, and libraries support linux. That would be the time when it matters. Right now, you are getting a tiny bit of performance back for a large amount of unsupported programs.
That 100 MB is important to me. And, with Virtual Box, you can support every single program! I've tried it.
Basically any distro can be good depending on what you want to do.
Ubuntu and Mint are very good for beginners. I believe Mageia, PCLinuxOS, Fedora, and OpenSUSE are also fairly beginner-friendly.
I installed Arch to a VM a bit ago and found it relatively easy. The documentation is very good. Follow it and you should be fine, though it really depends on hardware support. I liked it because of the flexibility. You install the components you want, and only the components you want. It's harder than Ubuntu or Mint, but not insanely difficult.
I've read great things about Debian, Slackware, and Gentoo. At least the last two are pretty complex, but they are overall good distros which I will probably try out soon.
Pick one that sounds good to you, and if you don't like it, try another one.
I call bull on that statement. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Unless you are nearly always completely maxing out all of your installed memory, 100MB is not going to make the slightest difference.
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Linux is smaller and faster. It may not be good in power management, but it makes up for that by being a free, open source operating system. Most people get Windows because it is "User Friendly," for my needs, linux is the best!
Honestly anyone I've seen that says Windows sucks and Linux doesn't is really too stupid to be using computers, because they don't even remotely understand either OS or their functionality.
They both have good and bad, nothing more to it than that, and that applies to almost every Linux distro(some are just plain bad.)
Let me clarify that:
I don't have a backup disk
Linux is better
WINDOWS SUCKS!
Hello World!
Jeezus man, has the concept of lying never occurred to you?
You call Microsoft. You say your motherboard died and you got a new one. You ask for a new key because your old install got borked.
How exactly is Linux better? Most people prefer/get windows.
Lying, Lying, why does everyone lie? I'm not going to LIE!
Linux is smaller and faster. It may not be good in power management, but it makes up for that by being a free, open source operating system. Most people get Windows because it is "User Friendly," for my needs, linux is the best!
Hello World!
Linux is not faster than windows. Also, how does Windows suck?
these words that i'm putting here is so i don't get a infraction : P
Well for your sake, I hope you know how to use terminal.
Here it is: http://www.reichel.net/opensource/linuxtop10.html
Hello World!
nice article from at least 2007, try some updated info maybe?
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2. Somewhat a lie. not making it better
3. Battery doesn't seem to matter, never made a difference with me
4.Lies
5. Bending truth (alot)
6. Same with windows
7. B***l windows has much more app support.
8. and this is bad
9. They are both as up to date.
10. Seems fine to me, you already paid
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That 100 MB is important to me. And, with Virtual Box, you can support every single program! I've tried it.
Hello World!
Ubuntu and Mint are very good for beginners. I believe Mageia, PCLinuxOS, Fedora, and OpenSUSE are also fairly beginner-friendly.
I installed Arch to a VM a bit ago and found it relatively easy. The documentation is very good. Follow it and you should be fine, though it really depends on hardware support. I liked it because of the flexibility. You install the components you want, and only the components you want. It's harder than Ubuntu or Mint, but not insanely difficult.
I've read great things about Debian, Slackware, and Gentoo. At least the last two are pretty complex, but they are overall good distros which I will probably try out soon.
Pick one that sounds good to you, and if you don't like it, try another one.
I call bull on that statement. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Unless you are nearly always completely maxing out all of your installed memory, 100MB is not going to make the slightest difference.
Ya its faster except when its slower.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_ivybridge_winlin&num=3
Phoronix is a Linux website so if they were to be biased one way it would be to Linux.
They both have good and bad, nothing more to it than that, and that applies to almost every Linux distro(some are just plain bad.)