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led_shankar
In Shamful Mystery
Good choice of distro. PCLinuxOS is very userfirendly.
The Outsider
Beneath The Eyelids
like anything else, it takes time getting used to, have fun mate 
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faraaz
Evil Genius
You know...the most impressive thing with Linux has been how amazingly easy everything is!! Nothing hangs...ever. All the programs I've either used before (Firefox, XMMS) or they are very intuitive and in some cases better than the programs I used on Windows.
Furthermore...the EYE CANDY!! OMG Linux is amazing! I used to feel cool running Window Blinds and ObjectDock and IconPackager...but Linux has all that built by default! Wow! The fonts...the presentation...everything...this thing rocks so hard!!!!
And finally...the console...I'm just starting to get used to it and learning the commands from some websites and all...like how you can use "|" characters to link up commands and how you use arguments properly and things like that. I dunno if that's how you do stuff in Windows since I never got an opportunity to use the Console for anything but I really prefer just typing one line instead of clicking around like 20 times. And Linux gives me that...
If I didn't have to play games on Windows, I'd shift right now. As the matter stands, I've already managed to enable write-access on my NTFS drives and EVERYTHING apart from gaming I'm doing from Linux and its all so EASY!
Furthermore...the EYE CANDY!! OMG Linux is amazing! I used to feel cool running Window Blinds and ObjectDock and IconPackager...but Linux has all that built by default! Wow! The fonts...the presentation...everything...this thing rocks so hard!!!!
And finally...the console...I'm just starting to get used to it and learning the commands from some websites and all...like how you can use "|" characters to link up commands and how you use arguments properly and things like that. I dunno if that's how you do stuff in Windows since I never got an opportunity to use the Console for anything but I really prefer just typing one line instead of clicking around like 20 times. And Linux gives me that...
If I didn't have to play games on Windows, I'd shift right now. As the matter stands, I've already managed to enable write-access on my NTFS drives and EVERYTHING apart from gaming I'm doing from Linux and its all so EASY!
led_shankar
In Shamful Mystery
@Faraaz: Have you tried Amarok? I feel you might prefer it to XMMS
azzu
AJJU
i created two threads asking a problem in installing mandriva
my problem is that after selecting the language,security level its asking for drive selection and then i selected use existing partition then it asked to select packages after selecting packages its saying not enough space but i do have 18 gb on that partion whats the prob help me plzzz
some one give detailed installation procedure for installing mandriva linux
my problem is that after selecting the language,security level its asking for drive selection and then i selected use existing partition then it asked to select packages after selecting packages its saying not enough space but i do have 18 gb on that partion whats the prob help me plzzz
some one give detailed installation procedure for installing mandriva linux
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faraaz
Evil Genius
@led_shankar: Yeah...I tried Amarok, but the player was really unwieldy...I dunno, too much like Windows Media Player and MusicMatch Jukebox I guess...and I HATE those players...really annoying. Also, I didn't like the fact that Amarok can't play music files from NTFS partitions by default...you have to drag and drop or browse to them through Konqueror and then add them manually. Playlist's don't work in Amarok from NTFS drives either...
Oh well...now I've barely gotten settled into PCLOS but there's this new release of Sabayon Linux out and I'm starting to drool already...how's Sabayon for a noob??
Oh well...now I've barely gotten settled into PCLOS but there's this new release of Sabayon Linux out and I'm starting to drool already...how's Sabayon for a noob??
sachin_kothari
Ambassador of Buzz
even i have shifted from vista to debian a few days back. had initial problems but now all smooth, thanks to the members of the forum who helped me. one thing i noticed about linux is that if i open a application after a day's running of linux it opens at the same speed as a rebooted system. unlike windows, its performance doesnt degrades over time.
I would advise you to stay with PCLinuxOS for the time being. Learn it for a while and then move.
It's a goof thing that you want to learn CLI. It can make so many tasks easier.
Sabayon is one distro in which you'd feel really comfortable using CLI, since it's gentoo based.
Sabayon is actually gentoo made simple but to use it effectively, you need to know a little about linux first and you also need to read the basic documents. One of the best places IMO to read up is gentoo handbook and gentoo wiki. Once you read those, doesn't matter how much you've actually understood. You will understand in due course of time.
And '|' isn't used to join the statements, it's a pipe. As, it's name suggests, like a pipeline it transfers something from one command to other. This can explain better *en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_pipe
&& is used to join multiple statements.
Oh and I just realised, the new release of sabayon you're talking about is 3.4 Loop2. It's a beta version. It's not the final 3.4 version. Wait for the final version to release.
It's a goof thing that you want to learn CLI. It can make so many tasks easier.
Sabayon is one distro in which you'd feel really comfortable using CLI, since it's gentoo based.
Sabayon is actually gentoo made simple but to use it effectively, you need to know a little about linux first and you also need to read the basic documents. One of the best places IMO to read up is gentoo handbook and gentoo wiki. Once you read those, doesn't matter how much you've actually understood. You will understand in due course of time.
And '|' isn't used to join the statements, it's a pipe. As, it's name suggests, like a pipeline it transfers something from one command to other. This can explain better *en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_pipe
&& is used to join multiple statements.
Oh and I just realised, the new release of sabayon you're talking about is 3.4 Loop2. It's a beta version. It's not the final 3.4 version. Wait for the final version to release.
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faraaz
Evil Genius
@mehulved: Thanks, that made a lot of sense! Yeah...I'll wait only.
And I know what I said was wrong...I was reading up on linuxcommand.org (IIRC) and there it said you use the | to put one after the other...for instance i want to rename a file and then movie to a diff folder, I type:
cp file1 file2 | mv file1 /directory2
Am I right?? Anyway...I am still learning all these things, and hopefully I should soon be improved enough to try out more advanced distributions. But honestly...everything just works!! Just like it should!! And when you end up doing everything yourself, you tend to be able to fix problems more easily in the future. For instance, I figured out how to get the broadband internet to work on my computer. I always used to have to get the Airtel wala to come home and fix it, but now I do it myself. Linux is awesome!!
PS: Is it only me, or is the internet faster in Linux?? I'm getting SUPER torrent speeds now than I used to earlier...
And I know what I said was wrong...I was reading up on linuxcommand.org (IIRC) and there it said you use the | to put one after the other...for instance i want to rename a file and then movie to a diff folder, I type:
cp file1 file2 | mv file1 /directory2
Am I right?? Anyway...I am still learning all these things, and hopefully I should soon be improved enough to try out more advanced distributions. But honestly...everything just works!! Just like it should!! And when you end up doing everything yourself, you tend to be able to fix problems more easily in the future. For instance, I figured out how to get the broadband internet to work on my computer. I always used to have to get the Airtel wala to come home and fix it, but now I do it myself. Linux is awesome!!
PS: Is it only me, or is the internet faster in Linux?? I'm getting SUPER torrent speeds now than I used to earlier...
infra_red_dude
Wire muncher!
correct choice of distro is everything for a first timer and u've made an excellant choice!faraaz said:
i think this is one of the aspects which is well implemented in only a few distros. this mebbe subjective. but i feel that only some distros haf it.faraaz said:
they will not coz the playlist structure is such that the absolute path is saved in it. try opening a playlist in a text editor (m3u, pls etc.) to see why they are not opening here. replace the drive letter (as shown in windows) wid the mount point of that drive in linux and also replace all '\' wid '/'.faraaz said:
is it the last partition? there must be some error in the mft. try gparted to partition again (backup ur data in any case) and then dun partition wid the mandriva installer. just select the partition created wid gparted to install it on in the partition step of mandriva install.azzu said:
infra_red_dude
Wire muncher!
thats a myth and applying the tweaks to remove the 20% never works. i am on a 256kpbs connection and i get the same speed (~30kBps) in both windows xp sp2 (with and without applying any tweaks) and ubuntu linux. i get the same in ubuntu studio, dreamlinux installed in vmware.The Unknown said:
so it mebbe that either the torrent software or the firewall on windows has not been configured properly.
infra_red_dude
Wire muncher!
i've never heard of any speed gain after disabling QoS by anybody neither did i ever experience it myself.
infra_red_dude
Wire muncher!
yeah pal, i was talking abt that only. i meant that i've never seen anybody getting a speed gain in windows after disabling qos and that whereever it is i've seen that the speeds in both win and lin are equal.
infra_red_dude
Wire muncher!
^^^ hey! why did u delete ur posts?
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