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Originally Posted by rcentros
I can do a new Linux Mint install with all drivers and updates -- and with all applications (including LibreOffice) with all their updates in about 40 minutes without a single reboot.
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And you can browse the net or play or work during the install, because it is done from the Live system.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Most people use computers to run applications on, not because they prefer one operating system over another, and it's perhaps easy to overlook this in our "enthusiasm" for an o/s.
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That is why I use Windows at work.
At home, I have all the apps I need.
I have no problem to change the system. I started on Linux, many, many years ago - it was only for persistent nerds and it left much to be desired. So I was dual-booting with Windows 98. Then I used FreeBSD for quite a few years, because I found out it works better and I could install most of software I needed using the excellent ports system. At that time I had relatively weak hardware and with FreeBSD you have very fine-grained control about what exactly runs on your PC.
Later on I got lazy to set up FreeBSD on a new computer - much less constrained computer - so I started to use PC-BSD.
Then came period when standard FreeBSD kernel had problem with my particular hardware configuration. So I have abandoned the ship again and discovered Mint Linux. I was delighted. It came installed out of box configured *exactly* to my taste.
I have changed my Desktop system many times Gnome, KDE, Lxde, xface and quite a few others over the years. As long as it has features I need and stays out of my way I do not really care for "The perfect desktop holly war".
As I wrote in previous post I can use DraftSight on linux - so I even have AutoCAD clone for my hobby needs. I have even started to migrate myself and our department from Autocad software to DraftSight (some of my colleagues prefer Intellicad [Zwcad]) at work, because I strongly dislike attitude of Autodesk towards paying customers (us)
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Eg, I'm a keen photographer, and I'd be lost without Adobe Lightroom, so that constrains my choice of o/s to either Windows or Mac, and my personal preference is for Windows. I'm sure that there probably are Linux apps that can do most of what Lightroom does, but I don't want to have to learn how to use a new app.
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For Linux enthusiasts there is DarkTable. No. I am not persuading you to ditch your perfectly working system with all the software you acquired and all the know-how you have accumulated over the years.
I consider myself a power user and at work I miss some features that my Mint Linux at home has. On the other hand, I do different things at home. When I went to USA couple of years ago I only took one computer and I needed to change my work-flow (for things I do at home) when using a Windows computer.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That way you can have Windows instead of Wine and you can have the easy of use instead of the hassle that Wine can be.
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Before you go to Linux, take stock of what it is you want to do. Can you do it under Linux? Are there programs to do what you want? Even though you want Linux, do you need Windows to run stuff that you cannot under Linux? You can always dual-boot. But if you do run Windows, use Windows for your eBook needs as it just works better overall for that.
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Thank you for a much more reasonable post ;-)
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I don't see why so many want to stay with XP. XP is no longer supported and it's slow.
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I stay with XP on my old notebook at work. It works. It is *very* fast on Pentium III based notebook, as long as it is a clean install and has minimum of software installed. I need a "clean" computer to connect to a corporate Intranet (belonging to our client) so I can fill in various reports, work logs and other nonsense using desperately bad corporate web apps (many of those were up until very recently optimized for MSIE6).
Other people insist on using XP because that is what they are familiar with. They were able to do the work on that computer for many. many years, so why shouldn't they continue doing exactly the same work? In many cases those people have little understanding of dangers lurking on the net and have no means to pay somebody to do the update for them.
Look at Calibre.
It is free software. It has much better support from developer than the vast majority of commercial products.
It is the proof that free software can be really good.