Its not an "argument of linux being better than windows", its just a link to a distro of linux.
I meant this thread in general -- see topic: "Windows Sucks... Is Linux Better?"
Could you please expand on that?
I have tried and failed twice to get a gentoo system up and working. Gentooers will be quick to tell you it's my fault, which technically it is, but gentoo is just a very, very, very niche distribution that I personally see as serving little purpose in the grand scheme of things, unless you're using it on incredibly old hardware.
Thats what I thought until I actually got a distro of linux running. It was a derivitave of debian and either I'm a compete dumbass (yes, its a possibility ) or it wasn't very customizable at all.
Well, I certianly wouldn't say dumbass lol. Stuff like that can be tricky and whatnot if you're not used to it. But window decorations, colors, transparency, text size, wallpapers, etc. -- everything can be configured like that by any linux system that has those things in the first place (which they all can). Gentoo, and linux distributions in general, don't really have anything different in the core from one to the next. It's all a matter of how they put the same stuff together, which debian does the best IMO.
Could you please tell me why? (not trying to argue, just interested)
lol no problem. Debian has arguably the best package system in the world. Debian makes it VERY easy to get any program you could ever want. It downloads it, installs it, configures it and everything automatically with no rebooting neccesary. Debian also has more than 15,000 of these packages readily available at a moment's notice. Furthermore, the Debian installer to actually get the system on your computer is one of the highest quality and easiest ones out there, and has never messed up my system (in fact, it fixed it a few times). There are more things, like stability through the roof, for example.
Could you please explain why? (again, i'm not trying to argue, just interested)
Well, Gnome is faster and smaller than KDE. However, it doesn't look nearly as good, doesn't come bundled with as many applications as a full KDE setup does, and is much, MUCH less stable in my experiences. It twice broke on my system on its own behalf. KDE, the system, has never broke, and only crashes very rarely (e.g, much less often than explorer or gnome).
Also, last time I intalled linux I ended up switching back to windows because I couldn't get it to work with my netgear wg111 wireless usb adapter and I can't live without the internet. I tried to get it to work with ndiswrapper but I just couldn't..... But at that time it wasn't on the list of usb adapters that have been tested with ndiswrapper and work. I just recently found a list of them again and this time it says that the wg111 adapter works! But now I can't remember anything that I learned about linux (it was about 1.5 years ago). Is it difficult to use ndiswrapper to get usb wireless adapters working?
I couldn't tell you, as I used wired networking. However, all signs point to yes, as wireless is becoming rapidly more supported by linux in general.
Also, what linux distro would you recommend to a linux n00b?
Vanilla Debian (not a proper name, just the generic version you get from debian.org) or Ubuntu or Mandriva, in that order (of recommendation
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Most of the time its pretty unavoidable so saying it would be cheaper is moot point since I would have the software regardless if I planned a Linux/Window OS.
Absolutely, but on a utopian plane of thought, it's quite unfortunate.
Why do I think this point would hard to prove either why so why dont we just leave this one
Heh, works for me
