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Compatibility and pure laziness, I use knoppix for recovery of stuff. That’s about it
I understand not wanting to set up yet another desktop, but actually configuring the OS takes at most as much time as configuring XP, with Freespire, I found it was less.TurboMirage said:lack of time to get a linux OS set up the way i want it.
I have actually recieved better support from the ubuntu and gentoo fora than I have ever recieved from Microsoft or from Apple. I had to try Apple when I worked at NMSU for one of the people in the Presidents office. They were silghtly more helpful than MS but not by much without promise of money.MaaseyRacer said:support
dont want to have a 2nd machine around.
does premire work on linux yet?
other than that, i probably would...no excuse for not dual booting, im just lazy.
also, im not sure about setting up my wireless network card. really thats all id be worried about. i dont know if intalling shit like that has gotten easier with linux.
Most of the user friendly distros (Ubuntu, Freespire, etc) require 0 command line interaction. Wireless is cake with wpa_supplicant. I start the GUI, enter any encryption data, and off it goes. Once you configure a wireless network with it, it will work like Wireless in Windows.
reikoshea said:will wpa_supplicant load the 'drivers' for the intel card i have?
I must say that is misleading, I still needed to use the command line to set up my wireless connection with wpa_supplicant on Kubuntu (Dapper 6.06)
and you still need the command line to edit fstab or other config files that require sudo
reikoshea: what intel card do you have ?? Kubuntu had the drivers for my intel 2200
I've migrated to kubuntu linux on three of my home machines. One is a dual boot for Autocad, Multisim, Ansys
If there was good CAD, electronic circuit analysys, and FEA analysis programs then I would needd windows at all.
whats holding me back- work mostly. i need to vpn to the office via my machine, and remote desktop many windows boxes. dameware/etc is just too slow over vpn. the built in windows remote desktop works best.
photoshop, cisco client vpn, remote desktop, and windows messenger are holding me back. thats about it.