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Hi all, I don't post very often on forums maybe I should but I've read this post from start to finish 'cos I wanted a small-ish lightweight Laptop(notebook) type thingy for the Mh, unfortunately they all seem to be using linux, God knows why as it appears from reading these posts that you need to be permantly fiddling with settings just to run apps and to run something as useful as Autoroute or mapsource is just impossible.... why bother to change unless you have nothing better to do?
We had Linux on networked comps at work and it cost me a bl##dy fortune to get out the experts everytime something went down and boy did that happen often. No thanks..
MS may be a monopoly but it works.
I've just signed up on the forum, and noticed the Computer Help section. I must say this thread has amused me greatly. I've been using Linux for more years than I care to remember now, in various different flavours. I'm currently using Kubuntu 9.0.4 (Ubuntu with a KDE desktop), although have various VMs (VirtualBox) with others to test them out. The most user friendly is probably Linux Mint at the moment, and I usually recommend that to new entrants to the Linux world. Ubuntu is great (and Kubuntu of course) but Mint (which is actually based on Ubuntu) is an excellent choice for Windows converts.
I'm not a huge fan of these Live CDs that they bring out, if you really want to try Linux from the safety of your Windows world then I'd use VirtualBox to create a VM and install it in the safety of a virtual machine.
Apologies if this was too pro-ubuntu, to redress the balance I should mention my main web server is CentOS, I also have a Red Hat Enterprise server, along with a Suse Enterprise server, openSuse, Fedora, openSolaris and a few others, including all manner of virtual machines running all sorts. The best thing about Linux is that you have the choice to pick whatever suits you best (although it could be said that too much choice is a bad thing too).
Anyway, nice to meet you all. I'm a certified geek, but newbie motorhome owner, but look forward trying to help out in here whenever I can.
Paul
PS - Oh, and I do use Windows too when I have to, the wifes laptop runs XP (I upgraded it from Vista it came installed with) and I run Win 7 in a VM for those infuriating moments when I have to open the worst software ever made (itunes!) to update my iPhone firmware.
Dont think (unless I missed it) anyone mentioned speed, Linux tends to load faster than "windoze" I have used Ubuntu on the laptop for a while now. As already mentioned there is software available for free that can be downloaded from within the distro.
If you have an older or lower powered laptop you want to bring back into action its worth a try, also play with different distros. For example a friend has a pentium 400 with 128mb ram that was so underpowered for todays windows he had discarded. Its now back in daily use use PCLinux and runs like a spring chicken (well almost!)
There are lots of sources of help for most of the Linux distributions
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Cliff, you are paying the wrong people to manage your linux boxes then. I managed 60 linux boxes for over 10 years. These were live internet facing linux servers handling 10's of thousands of domains. Email services, web, FTP, databases and DNS etc etc. It was a part time job maybe taking 1 to 2 hour a week and most of that was routine maintenance tasks. The only failures I had in the last 6 years were hardware failures.
If your server tech has to keep coming back it is either misconfigured or underspecced and designed to fail or your server tech is not doing his job properly.
Downloaded and installed Mint 7 Gloria last week. Everything worked 'out of the box' Very easy to use and the folk on the forum are most helpful if you get stuck. Seems to me there are a few Linux people in this forum too who will help including myself. Try it, especially if your Windows machine is really grinding to a halt!
http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php or you can buy a disc for about a tenner!
Bought one of them tiny netbooks last weekend (should be perfect for the van too as it draws less power than my laptop) and it came pre-installed with Ubuntu Netbook Remix. I'm a Ubuntu user anyway (well, Kubuntu, which is the KDE front-end version) and I must admit I am now tempted to switch both my laptops and my desktop to using the Netbook Remix front end. It's very polished, and works brilliantly well. The next version is out in October which promises even more great features.
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