operating systems

[Scott]

Do any PC users here use non-Microsoft operating systems? If so, which ones and why? Scott

 

[historyb]

Me! I use PCLinuxOS, why? No viruses, mal-ware, spyware. No blue screen of death and everything works out of the box. For the freedom it affords by not being locked in to one system.

 

[Scott]

Cool. Any downsides to use it? Does all PC software work with it?

 

[historyb]

Well Linux is between Flash Versions right now, Some Windows software works through WINE (a emulation sort of). Also I forgot to say it comes pre-loaded with everything one needs no extra software to buy and say there something that's not in the Software Repositoroes yet they can be requested.

Not a lot of games, but more each day and some windows games can be played with Cedega.

 

[Hungus]

Wine Is Not an Emulator rather a reverse engineering of the win32 api. I have my mother on Xandros which is also a *nix, I use openBSD and OS X on my PCs I donlt reccomend either for novice user however (on a generic PC).

What software do you need to use?

 

[youthevang]

I use SuSE 10.1. I love it for the simple fact that it is not windows. I have a dual boot system. Why? I use Windows for viewing DVD's for class. You can get it to work in SuSE but it will take some time and configuration. I also like it because of what historyb mentioned earlier. Those people who program viruses are targeting windows more so than linux.