Anti-Microsoft Bandwagon

[Séguin]

Thats it! That's the last fuckin' straw! I'm getting rid of everything Microsoft related ASAP!

[crookedking]

you'll be back!

[rawb]

another person bad at computers decides added complexity will fix his problems

[stringbeans]

haaaa

[Séguin]

Originally Posted by rawb

another person bad at computers decides added complexity will fix his problems

actualy, I know what I'm doing. I've just been too lazy to change over.

[decypher]

os x is smooth as butter, from what i've seen so far. And i like the command line wayy better.

[ppcock]

I like my XP pro

I fill it with porn and my anti-virus takes out the bad.

[tvmann]

Going Mac? Which one?

It's a miracle any computers work, there's so much code in them.

I would like a Mac too but my Dell works fantastic. Had it almost 2 years, it's fast, I can do lots of stuff with it, and it never crashes.

Originally Posted by Robb Peppertre

Thats it! That's the last fuckin' straw! I'm getting rid of everything Microsoft related ASAP!

[Séguin]

For os, I'm thinking Linux. The only thing I'm worried about is not being able to find software compatable with Linux.

[~god~]

Originally Posted by Robb Peppertre

For os, I'm thinking Linux. The only thing I'm worried about is not being able to find software compatable with Linux.

you can find pretty much everything.
I've been on this shit for about 3 years now.

[Technix]

Originally Posted by ppcock

I like my XP pro

I fill it with porn and my anti-virus takes out the bad.

Candidate for Evidence Eliminator 5.0

[Séguin]

haha! Trillian is awesome! Funny screen shot

[wishbone]

Originally Posted by Robb Peppertre

haha! Trillian is awesome! Funny screen shot

and here i was thinkin i was special.

damn allison and her mass messaging :(

[zarlon]

ah wikipedia built into trillian is good times.

[ebbomega]

trillian bleh.

gaim.sourceforge.net
firefox for web browsing
XMMS is the common winamp replacement, Rhythmbox makes for a decent itunes clone if you like that style UI.
Mplayer = great for video, xine is nice if you prefer a UI. Frankly I like just opening the files in mplayer and just fullscreening them.
Openoffice and abiword both handle Microsoft documents better than microsoft products.

Gaming is the only real fallthrough. WineX is pretty decient though.

I recommend for beginners to linux Mandrake, and if you're feeling adventurous, Fedora Core (make sure you set up dag/freshrpm apt repositories though. And make sure you install apt). And if you're really feeling adventurous, Debian unstable is pretty ridiculous.

Welcome. I said bye to the Bill machine about 3 years ago. Today I work for Microsoft. Funny world it is.

Still not using Windows at home though. Fedora Core 3 is shiny, pretty, and doesn't require much to do what I want it to.