Who Uses Linux

[Spooky]

I was thinking earlier...which is rare lol

 

Who uses Linux?....and what do you use it for?

 

I use Linux as a start up program because i think its faster than windows on start up. What i mean by that is when i build a PC its quicker to run Linux to install and set things up.

[Jonny1]

I want to use linux, but I dont have time to learn atm

[The Gate Keeper]

Linux are used by alot of IT professionals. Linux has a lot of powerful features that windows doesn't, straight from the terminal (bash screen). And with built in applications like awk, grep, and other commands, you can do quite powerful stuff text based. Linux is quick because of the fact that it doesn't have a huge interface driving it like windows does, and it is designed to be more IT friendly, and not so user friendly. Where as windows is "suppose to be" user friendly over IT friendly.

 

It's a powerful tool, and there are heaps of unix tutorials online. If you want something that has a strong GUI and is linux, try Ubuntu. It's quite popular around university, and is relatively quick.

[Guest X-Fusion]

Whenever I get around to building a new computer, I'm probably gonna go with Linux. The only problem I have is the majority of the programs I use don't support Linux.

[Spooky]

Linux wont work with most of the things you have. Its better to use xp or whatever, and linux as a partation. Linux as an OS isnt really that useful, but as TGK said, it has some fantastic features for IT developers.

[Haggis]

linux is very useful

 

only reason i dont use it 100% on all my pc's is other family mmbers dont know how to use it

 

 

and occasionally i want to play games

[Xaggeration]

I have Ubuntu as a partition on both my laptop, and this pc. Although I haven't used it in a long time, I still find it very fun and versitile.

[The Gate Keeper]

as for getting windows programs to work, look at "WINE" (or Linux wine). It helps get windows applications onto linux.