[Coda]

Originally Posted by ml1201

Yeah, windows is just generally easier to use and understand, for as long as I can remember that's all my family has ever had. And my dad is a computer scientist. o.O

It's not so much that Windows is easier to understand as it is that Windows is simply more common and therefore more people are familiar with it. If you had to get stuck at the Windows command line in recovery mode, most people would be just as lost as if they'd gotten stuck at a Linux command line without X11 running. Desktop Linux these days has gotten pretty intuitive -- I introduced a friend to it a couple months back and he went and installed it on his laptop and rarely boots back into Windows anymore.

[trystan830]

Originally Posted by Coda

I introduced a friend to it a couple months back and he went and installed it on his laptop and rarely boots back into Windows anymore.

when i first started using unbuntu (2009) i had a dual boot computer with two hard drives and one was XP. i rarely used the XP OS. and then when i changed computers, and moved the hard drives over, i couldn't get it to give me the dual boot option, but ubuntu 10.04 (i think) could see the winXP drive, but it needed a password to access it. so i ended up just storing like one file on it, which was password-protected.

but every ubuntu OS after that (i'm using 14.04 now) has been my only OS on the computer. i never had much luck with the "10" versions, so even though i went from 10.04 to 10.10, after 11.04 i went right to 12.04. and then 14.04 LTS.

[ml1201]

Huh, interesting. Sadly though most of the games I play usually list things for windows, I have no clue if they have any compatibility with other operating systems. Can you take a screen shot of what you get on your screen when a Linux computer finishes booting up?

[trystan830]

uhm, sure. when i'm all done, and at my desktop, ready to open all my programs, it looks like this.

[ml1201]

O.O
That looks pretty cool, not much different from windows than. o.o If I can get most of my games to work on that it would be pretty awesome. Do Linux computers go for more or less than Windows ones? And can the Linux computers run older games, like from the 90's with or without a virtual machine? There's this game I love called Blaze & Blade: The Eternal Quest for the PC but its a really old game and half the time I can't figure out how to get it to run correctly (graphics issues for some reason) though my brother eventually got it to work properly on his. Another reason why I'm wondering is because after playing for a bit on the newer computers the game will suddenly run lightning fast, to the point of me accidentally killing my party. x'D

[trystan830]

not a clue on running the older games.

Linux comes in a number of flavors: Fedora, Red Hat (a flavor of Fedora), Ubuntu, Kubuntu (a flavor of Ubuntu), Debian, openSUSE, Gentoo... and most of them are free. the computer i'm using used to be WinXP.

[ml1201]

@.@
I think if I get one I'd have to have one of you guys help me get it set up, though I like the one you currently have trystan, though your screen seems to be pretty large. o.o;

[trystan830]

thanks! the monitor's resolution is 1280x1024. it's a nice size for me.

it's pretty easy to download the install CD, and install. and you can even install it along side your current OS too.

[ml1201]

Unfortunately I actually cannot since this is not my personal computer, but actually my dad's (even though he has it in my room on MY desk >>; )so I cannot actually do that until I have my own computer. My dad would flip if I did that, but most likely I'd need his password anyways since he's basically put a password on everything except games and browsing the net (and only on the games after installing because installing requires a password as well >>; ).

[trystan830]

ah.

i do believe that ubuntu has an option on their web page where you can actually try ubuntu without installing anything, but i don't know how it would work if things are password protected.

[ml1201]

Yeah, that might cause some complications. ^^; If I do get a chance to use it though I'll be sure to ask you for help if I need it. :3

[trystan830]

sounds like a plan. =)

[ml1201]

*plays with trystan's hair*
XD

[trystan830]

LOL!

i feel very hobbit-y. =)

[ml1201]

Long hair is pretty and I love playing with it, but I can't stand my own hair when it gets long. x'D

[trystan830]

i had long hair IRL, and got it cut in september... but now, yeah, i'm letting it grow again. both my daughters have really long hair though.