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over a year ago
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If yes how are you finding it?
Am thinking of changing to it, just wondered how other's find it and if everything that runs under Win7 will still work?
Thanks, D. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"and will run on computers as well! lol
does that mean some computer operating systems don't run on computers???  "
no it just means I was correcting how I didn't spell computer correctly on my reply to soapy |
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By (user no longer on site)
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ubuntu roxx m8, you will not regret swapping to it and binning the crap from bill gates, very stable, very little chance of virus or spyware, so secure infact I dont even run an antivirus on mine, some things will take getting used to but it wont take a long and you will love it...LINUX ROOLZ |
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"ubuntu roxx m8, you will not regret swapping to it and binning the crap from bill gates, very stable, very little chance of virus or spyware, so secure infact I dont even run an antivirus on mine, some things will take getting used to but it wont take a long and you will love it...LINUX ROOLZ"
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Its a LINUX distibution, whoch is a free version of UNIX more or less
No it wont run everything yoru windows can, especially a lot of games if you use your PC for games at all
for other stuff like say MS Office, you will need to use a open source version, Openoffice is very good, and is compatable with MS Office |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Its a LINUX distibution, whoch is a free version of UNIX more or less
No it wont run everything yoru windows can, especially a lot of games if you use your PC for games at all
for other stuff like say MS Office, you will need to use a open source version, Openoffice is very good, and is compatable with MS Office"
thans, I don't use laptop for games so that won't bother me at all, noticed on their site it comes with Firefox so that's great as won't need to d/l that again, and it has Open Office, has own movie player etc., so looks like I will get it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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on the other side of the coin, it can run very many of the games, you can run many windows programs by using a combination of winE and cedega, my preference of web browser is google chrome rather than firefox which also works very well on nix |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've just started running ubuntu on my spare pc. Looks good so far and you can run a few windows programs on it using a piece of software called 'wine'.
Have a look on youtube and you'll find lots of good (and bad) tutorials on getting to grips with ubuntu and installing windows software using wine.  |
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"Arrr ya mean like the windows operating system??
Sorry not really computer savvy xx"
that's ok, I just dilike Microsoft and all the security updates that keep downloading I wanted to look at a change from Windows....deleted previous post as my fingers keep hitting the wrong keys again today!  |
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thanks for the useful tips, just one question, does the vcl player work better? I tried it on Win xp and had nothing but headaches with it...._muma sorry to hear that, tried runnning troubleshooter? |
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"Arrr ya mean like the windows operating system??
Sorry not really computer savvy xx
that's ok, I just dilike Microsoft and all the security updates that keep downloading I wanted to look at a change from Windows....deleted previous post as my fingers keep hitting the wrong keys again today! "
updates on ubuntu are very simple, just remember this lines to type in a terminal window "sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y"
and your system will be updated without any other input |
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"Arrr ya mean like the windows operating system??
Sorry not really computer savvy xx
that's ok, I just dilike Microsoft and all the security updates that keep downloading I wanted to look at a change from Windows....deleted previous post as my fingers keep hitting the wrong keys again today!
updates on ubuntu are very simple, just remember this lines to type in a terminal window "sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y"
and your system will be updated without any other input"
again thanks for the info. will copy this thread and make use of suggestions when I have the time  |
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over a year ago
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"My laptop is fucked. It just keeps playing "Chasing Pavements" over and over again.
I think it's a Dell."
Never heard of chasing pavements lol tried the one button recovery that most dell come with? |
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"My laptop is fucked. It just keeps playing "Chasing Pavements" over and over again.
I think it's a Dell.
pmsl mar. quality x"
lol yeh good one - would have been better if I had ever heard of adele then I could have joined in! |
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