Windows 7 Vs Linux

I just got a new laptop (HP pavilion DM3 1020ea) and i was wondering whether to keep the standard Windows 7 or get Linux. Thanks

linux is great but you really will need the patience for any distribution you get. If anything douel boot both and slowly tinker with linux. If you have never messed with linux then I would say to go windows 7. You really have to relearn how to work your computer on linux in comparison to windows which in essence has been the same template for close to decades now? Now if you are a experience linux user then go for it. I personally have multiple distributions of linux. From a old Suse (i know folks... don't taze me bro), xandros, easypeezy, ubuntu, to blue dog on my ps3.

I havent ever used Linux before :S, but how do you dual boot them ?

Um? When it's about games, Windows always wins :)

I really like Linux. If you are just trying out Linux for the first time, I'd recommend Ubuntu. Here's a guide on how to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu. If it wasn't for Windows having games, I'd only use Linux. :P

Not even dualboot. Just use a Linux LiveCD until you're more familiar with the OS.

THANKS :D, ummm... can you uninstall linux once you have got it ?

I havent ever used Linux before :S, but how do you dual boot them ?

i--Ki1l--U

Yeah, i dont really mind, I just want the best possible Operating System for my PC, but isnt Ubuntu almost the same as Linux ?

I had to use Linux Ubantu for Operating System Admin Class I found it bad and awful, my advice if you want to play games keep se7enDark_prince123

Yeah, i dont really mind, I just want the best possible Operating System for my PC, but isnt Ubuntu almost the same as Linux ?

i--Ki1l--U

It's a fine OS, I force people to use it, there are initial questions, most get used to it...

Hell I made my smart friend go start into FreeBSD he uh disliked it due to fdisk. I just made him go Debian, he likes dat. (Ubuntu is based on Debian) Debian is for cool peoples.

Yeah, i dont really mind, I just want the best possible Operating System for my PC, but isnt Ubuntu almost the same as Linux ?

i--Ki1l--U

I just got a new laptop (HP pavilion DM3 1020ea) and i was wondering whether to keep the standard Windows 7 or get Linux. Thanks

i--Ki1l--U

I just got a new laptop (HP pavilion DM3 1020ea) and i was wondering whether to keep the standard Windows 7 or get Linux. Thanks

i--Ki1l--U

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Yeah, i dont really mind, I just want the best possible Operating System for my PC, but isnt Ubuntu almost the same as Linux ?

guynamedbilly

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Yeah, i dont really mind, I just want the best possible Operating System for my PC, but isnt Ubuntu almost the same as Linux ?

guynamedbilly

Is there any way of uninstalling Ubuntu?

Is there any way of uninstalling Ubuntu?

i--Ki1l--U

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I just got a new laptop (HP pavilion DM3 1020ea) and i was wondering whether to keep the standard Windows 7 or get Linux. Thanks

dawgrejectx

I just got a new laptop (HP pavilion DM3 1020ea) and i was wondering whether to keep the standard Windows 7 or get Linux. Thanks

i--Ki1l--U

Hours? Dude, just use the update manager...done.

linux is ok to mess around with. the linux community is obsessed with retyping their passwords every 3 seconds, and having everything done in the terminal. its 2010... we have guis for everything....Atheists_Pwn

it's not every three seconds, if anything you can think of the authentication notice as the UAC for windows, and yeah the terminal is nice, but so is the command prompt. Do you have to use either? No. Is it useful? Hell yes.

Yeah, i dont really mind, I just want the best possible Operating System for my PC, but isnt Ubuntu almost the same as Linux ?

i--Ki1l--U

I'm sure that quote will be on someone's signature someday. He He He. But yes. Ubuntu is Linux.

Just boot with a Linux LiveCD. It might be slow but bearable. When you're done, Shut Down, remove CD, and you'll be prompted to reboot. No harm to the hard drive.

That said, I'm partial to LinuxMint.

Be advised that if you are installing it on an HP laptop you might want to make sure everything you have on that laptop is going to work under Linux, as some hardware vendors make things that Linux can't run. Run LiveCd first whatever you do to make sure it works.

Back when XP was cutting edge there was a point to using Ubuntu in terms of customization and the level of eye candy you could get but now with Windows 7 it blows it away out the box. Just tried the 10.4 beta and it really seems like a massive downgrade after using Win7 for the past 6 months.

Plus it now has the min/max/close buttons on the left of the window!

DEAL BREAKER!!! lol

Plus it now has the min/max/close buttons on the left of the window!StormtrooprDave

[QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"]linux is ok to mess around with. the linux community is obsessed with retyping their passwords every 3 seconds, and having everything done in the terminal. its 2010... we have guis for everything....Sparticus247

it's not every three seconds, if anything you can think of the authentication notice as the UAC for windows, and yeah the terminal is nice, but so is the command prompt. Do you have to use either? No. Is it useful? Hell yes.

[QUOTE="Sparticus247"]

[QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"]linux is ok to mess around with. the linux community is obsessed with retyping their passwords every 3 seconds, and having everything done in the terminal. its 2010... we have guis for everything....Atheists_Pwn

it's not every three seconds, if anything you can think of the authentication notice as the UAC for windows, and yeah the terminal is nice, but so is the command prompt. Do you have to use either? No. Is it useful? Hell yes.

Also UAC is useless, the prompts that come up to make you type in your password are useful, what if someone just walks up to your pc and wants to do,

rm -rfv /

I havent ever used Linux before :S, but how do you dual boot them ?

i--Ki1l--U

If you really want to try linux get Linux Mint. It's Ubuntu with a much better UI and has most things you will need out the box.

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I havent ever used Linux before :S, but how do you dual boot them ?

Jamex1987

If you really want to try linux get Linux Mint. It's Ubuntu with a much better UI and has most things you will need out the box.

Well dude i dont think they are nerds...u cant call them nerds..because gamers will fall in the same category :D...they are just a bunch of peoples who are passionate about their hobby...just like gamers

Most gamers r nubs though. Not saying you have to be pro to use something like Ubuntu, because that would be funny if I said that. To Jamex, u r nub, Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu... which is based on Debian, and you can get KDE for Ubuntu if you really want to, I like the interface of Gnome. You can change the themes duh.

Also, to dual boot, if you have windows installed first, just shrink the partition in disk management, then let Ubuntu install and it will install Grub the bootmanager, and ask you if you want to boot to Linux or Windows.

If you have Linux installed first, guess what Windows does? It over writes your boot manager without asking. How nice. You can follow this to get it back
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20from%20LiveCD

I have had better luck with method 2 when I have problems. Note this is only for distrubiutions with Grub2 installed, everything before Ubuntu 9.10 uses Grub1... just a fyi incase you look at other distros like Debian (grub1)

You can recover grub1 bootmanagers, just different way.

Also an alternate is to not even go to Linux... or Windows... or UNIX anything... Go OS/2... WARP 4 FTW Ok I am kidding, but if you guys want to be real true warriors, go to WARP. I love the install to it, insert floppy discs and then inserts cds, yay old oses.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

nubsJigglyWiggly_

[QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"][QUOTE="Sparticus247"]

it's not every three seconds, if anything you can think of the authentication notice as the UAC for windows, and yeah the terminal is nice, but so is the command prompt. Do you have to use either? No. Is it useful? Hell yes.

JigglyWiggly_

Also UAC is useless, the prompts that come up to make you type in your password are useful, what if someone just walks up to your pc and wants to do,

rm -rfv /

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[QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"] you actually do have to use the terminal,and uac is far less annoying, because it doesnt ever, at any time involve the command prompt saying an ubuntu user, or any linux user wil never have to go into a command line interface is a flat out lie, in every way shape and form.Atheists_Pwn

Also UAC is useless, the prompts that come up to make you type in your password are useful, what if someone just walks up to your pc and wants to do,

rm -rfv /

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

RichardStallman

[QUOTE="dawgrejectx"][QUOTE="i--Ki1l--U"] [QUOTE="i--Ki1l--U"]

I just got a new laptop (HP pavilion DM3 1020ea) and i was wondering whether to keep the standard Windows 7 or get Linux. Thanks

Sparticus247

Hours? Dude, just use the update manager...done.

[QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"][QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"] You mean cause the average Ubuntu user is smarter than a Windows user is a shock? :o

Also UAC is useless, the prompts that come up to make you type in your password are useful, what if someone just walks up to your pc and wants to do,

rm -rfv /

JigglyWiggly_

Windows would destroy linux in every conceivable way if they changed two things:

Deny programs the right to change the registry unless you go into safe mode and manually change it (this would destroy many common viruses)

change the file system so that you dont ever have to defrag.

change those two things, and ill never use linux again.

[QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"]linux is ok to mess around with. the linux community is obsessed with retyping their passwords every 3 seconds, and having everything done in the terminal. its 2010... we have guis for everything....Sparticus247

it's not every three seconds, if anything you can think of the authentication notice as the UAC for windows, and yeah the terminal is nice, but so is the command prompt. Do you have to use either? No. Is it useful? Hell yes.

[QUOTE="madmenno"]Well i just got myself win 7 and after a week i got way too anoyed by it. It was not compatible with old games and a lot of software didn't work properly. The interface of windows 7 is lovely, especially if you like to have lots of stuff open (like me). Thats why i reverted to win XP again and get the win7 disc back out when there is a SE or SP 982982309 released. I don't have much experience with linux but you could always duel boot ubuntu wich is a free open source linux OS. But for me it would be the same as windows 7 - not compatible with most stuff i wanna use my pc for.JigglyWiggly_

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[QUOTE="dawgrejectx"] keeps windows 7 , Linux is a waste of time, do you wanna search the net for hours trying to get video plug ins to work on websites? ok if not keep windows 7.dawgrejectx

Hours? Dude, just use the update manager...done.

right, i understand that. I'm just saying most users of windows complain about the non-easy distros. Ubuntu pretty much bullifies any big complaint from the Windows community in terms of it being difficult to use, and is the distro that most home users would choose when migrating from windows. It's quick, it's easy, and it's painless.

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[QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"]linux is ok to mess around with. the linux community is obsessed with retyping their passwords every 3 seconds, and having everything done in the terminal. its 2010... we have guis for everything....Atheists_Pwn

it's not every three seconds, if anything you can think of the authentication notice as the UAC for windows, and yeah the terminal is nice, but so is the command prompt. Do you have to use either? No. Is it useful? Hell yes.

ok well maybe not EVER having to use the terminal was streatsching things, but hey, you learn something nice once you get the haang of it

[QUOTE="Atheists_Pwn"][QUOTE="Sparticus247"]

it's not every three seconds, if anything you can think of the authentication notice as the UAC for windows, and yeah the terminal is nice, but so is the command prompt. Do you have to use either? No. Is it useful? Hell yes.

JigglyWiggly_

Also UAC is useless, the prompts that come up to make you type in your password are useful, what if someone just walks up to your pc and wants to do,

rm -rfv /

what if someone wants to walk up and rm -system 32?:P

I think its possible to have 2 operating systems in a pc. But if your just looking for one os then look at your pc habits, if your a gamer then obviously stay with Windows 7 otherwise go for Linux. Though I am not sure of Linux' office software, though I've used Linux I'v never actually fully explored it yet.

You can also run Linux from a flash drive, check on the Linux website for instructions how to do this. Since your computer came with Windows 7 I would use that, Ubuntu is a very good operating system and is great for a slightly older PC without backup software IMO. If you plan to use your notebook for gaming Linux is out of the question since most games are designed for Windows. If you are just curious about Linux just put it on a disk or flash drive and run it that way, only down side is you can't save anything.