Linked by Gilboa Davara on Thu 30th Jun 2005 12:29 UTC
If you've heard about Linux and feel like giving it a go or if you want to try Linux but you're too afraid it'll shew up your computer, this article is for you. Read it, feel free to take what you need and ignore the rest. This is not a tutorial, it's a README-FIRST-like article. It should help you to take that first dive.
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...you can learn by reading some of the answers in this forum.
For instance: Don't you think ALTLinux is better because you can:
apt-get install ms-fonts-ttf
Yup, that's "better", if you can remember it. I can, incidentally, (usually I'm remembering "fink install ..." or "rpm install...") but a lot of other people (read: non-geeks) have better things to do with their time than remembering cryptic commands.
and more, there are another dozen of packages with fonts.
Presumably, all as easy to install as the one above.
I am sick of hearing that argument... do you people not know realise that linux can use ttf fonts in place of system fonts, and there is always a gui program to let you change them ?
Apparently not. Do you realize that some people have to learn things before they know them? it's not all born inside, and the attitude that people like you take will simply turn people off from Linux.
yes linspire is a fantastic company, paying money for those codecs and charging you for them!
Indeed, paying someone in exchange for the work they do! What a concept! I've never heard of it before! Who invented this horrible idea??? Man, I could get by life so much better if I didn't pay the waiter at a restaurant -- after all, food is necessary!
(Note: I used Linux at my former job, and plan to install it on a computer at my next job (start Aug. 15th). So don't call me a FUD-spreader or a Linux-hater just because I respect people you'd rather sneer at.)
For the guy who was unhappy with development environemnts: how does Eclipse compare with the ones you mentioned? I've not used either, but I hear good things about Eclipse, hence the question.