Comments on: Top 5 Tips for Migrating from Windows to Linux

By: mrlajosmrlajos

mrlajosmrlajos — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:38:39 +0000

Ok. At the beginning Linux mainly has just terminal”command prompt” after then graphical user interface”GUI” Xwindow, people said ok but look at the Vistas 3D GUI. Yeah look at the compiz fusion much better. So Linux always try to be there they try to do things on cheaper hardware also. I know more difficult to handle for beginners because of the difference between them. Linux needs time,Linux doing things without company supports(drivers) thats hard enough. But they doing it.

By: ikemkrueger

ikemkrueger — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:52:39 +0000

Linux for now is a system that is mostly easy to try, to install and to work with, but it is not easy to configure and mantain.

If you came from Windows and if you would configure and mantain it, you have to brake a lot of old habbits and you have a lot to learn.

By: Timotay

Timotay — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:21:22 +0000

tumbs down, linux will take over, give it time, word is spreading, once windows work out how to stop pirates running it for free, once they solve that, people will go to linux

By: cwmetzner

cwmetzner — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:55:26 +0000

linux will prob take windows out but not osx.

By: benwms

benwms — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:13:35 +0000

You have to be a YouTube Partner.

By: Alex13N

Alex13N — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:06:33 +0000

I mailed Chris about it and he said you need to be a Youtube partner to get an adveritsiment option

By: HoodSta93

HoodSta93 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:04:17 +0000

use wubi

By: METHODriders

METHODriders — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:25:38 +0000

how did u get that banner above the video descriptioin because i need one

By: Laoch111

Laoch111 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:22:17 +0000

Hi Chris. Good tutorials. However I think you are totally biased in favour of Mac. Ubuntu is definitely suitable for the average user. I am now using Ubuntu for a month and am amazed by how good it is. I rarely use Xp now. In comparison to Ubuntu, Windows is garbage. If people open their minds and try Ubuntu or any other Linux distro they will love it.

By: Dejaiin

Dejaiin — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:29:43 +0000

Takes me 20 minutes both ways, its not hard with the GUI now day :D

By: thx8t88

thx8t88 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:11:14 +0000

Pirillo mixes up user friendliness with _beginner_ friendliness.

Every time I reinstall Linux or move to another distro, it takes no more than 3 hours to have system up and running. And I mean WHOLE system patched up and configured like it was, all programs installed, patched up AND configured. I mean everything just like it was.

Every time I try to do the same with Windows, it’s at least 3 days(!) of manual hard labor.

By: thx8t88

thx8t88 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:53:27 +0000

If anyone wants to move to Linux I would recommend to start with programs first. So replace your IE with Firefox or Opera, Outlook Express/Windows Mail with Thunderbird, MS Office -> OpenOffice etc.

Only then start to play with liveCDs.

By: thisismirul

thisismirul — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:45:39 +0000

on linux, using the synaptic manager installation is like.. ticking and applying.

By: MrSlimFit

MrSlimFit — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:41:23 +0000

(continues from 2 previous posts) i love linux for a few reasons, but i would not reccomend it to anybody that is new to computers and not willing to go through the trouble of learning more lower-level stuff.

By: MrSlimFit

MrSlimFit — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:40:54 +0000

I consider myself a nerd and im that guy that everyone goes to for computer stuff. recently i switched my primary os to linux and i have had many headaches with random, stupid issues (example, my package manager did some software updates. I restarted, and suddenly several programs are broke from issues with modules and dependancies. an hour of headache later, i got it running again — having to do things any normal computer user would interpret as trying to learn chinese. (cont)