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Originally Posted by pcuthbert
Linux is a great way to go, if you can work with command line interface. The GUI (graphical user interface) in Ubuntu is great though. The only difficulty I see here is in finding the drivers that work well with the hardware. Most hardware manufacturers don't write the drivers for Linux, and sometimes it can be a real pain to find the drivers that will work with your chosen hardware.
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I have heard this from a few people as the primary reason that they won't switch over to *nix. I don't buy it personally though. I've been running it for about the last 3 to 4 years. The biggest headache I've had with it was installing and running Sun Java (I love my Yahoo! games, what can I say) and that was only about a 20 minute headache at worst. Other than that I've never had any problems finding any drivers for any hardware I've installed.
Now one of the biggest problems with the linix o/s's is what's called dependancy h*%$. This is where you try to install program A and find out it requires programs B and C, you go to install B and it requires programs 1, 2 and 3 (and so on and so on) but if you stick to one of the bigger distributions such as *ubuntu, Debian, Fedora that include a package manager then that is reduced to near nothing.
Oh and I very rarely have to go command line with this thing. There are three primary packages for a GUI (gnome, kde and xfce) and all are very good. (i prefer kde coz it has some killer eye candy available for it). but if you do find yourself having to run command line there are some wonderful tutorials on the web to get you through it. and do we even talk about how most viruses are innefective against a computer with the power of the penguin?
(ok enough of me sounding like a geek)