[Sweetfish]

For the few who decided to take the road less taken and settled with linux.

Currently I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy and LOVING IT! I loved the functionality and customization that linux offered, I did have to take the bullet for gaming when I installed Linux due to the fact that about 95% of the games are not compatible with linux, but everything else I'm very satisfied with.

I made this thread knowing there wont be any replies due to the low amount of linux users out there. It has a very steep learning curve. But This thread is for those people who DO use linux or people who are thinking about using linux! AND YOU CAN POST YOUR DESKTOP PICTURE. SHOW OFF! here is your chance.



My desktop. <3

Chinguz Desktop <3


Tutorial Section
(This is where I'll post small instructions that might be useful, and if you can put a couple of tutorials as well that would great!)

How to delete panels
First off I want to warn you that you should have ether kiba dock or avant windows navator installed already! If not then you will just have a empty desktop!
I will post a guild on how to install kiba and avant when I have time.
Ok lets get started!
1. Goto System -> Preferences -> Sessions
2. Click on Current Session tab. Find gnome-panel there and set it's style to
"Trash" and click Apply button. DO NOT close the Sessions Window
3. Now open a terminal and type:
$killall gnome-panel

4. Now close the terminal window and go back to the sessions window.
5. Click on the Session Options tab and check (tick) the "Automatically remember running applications when logging out" check-box.
6. Click on the "Remember currently running applications" button.
7. Close the sessions window.

Now you just reboot and VOLA! It's gone!
If you want your panels back, just press ctrl f2
and it should open your terminal, and type in
gnome-panel

How to change the positions of your buttons!


Like so!

1.Go to terminal
Type in :
gconf-editor

2.A new menu should open
On the left of the screen look for:
/apps/metacity/general/

3.And then there should be a key that says Button_layout
Click that and you can edit it
Here are some possibiltys You can set it however you want.

close,minimize,maximize:menu
close,maximize,minimize:menu

[MUGETSU]

have linux on my Asus eeePC. Liking it so far. that's about all my experience with linux lol

[chinguz]

Currently I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy and LOVING IT! I loved the functionality and customization that linux offered, I did have to take the bullet for gaming when I installed Linux due to the fact that about 95% of the games are not compatible with linux, but everything else I'm very satisfied with.

you can always use wine and play the windows games you want. although it's not always going to work.

i've too got ubuntu 7.10 on one of my desktops and its great compared to my experience with opensuse and fedora.
though i've had two issues where i couldn't boot into ubuntu after i customized the splash screen therefore having to format it. the other is it not performing well and has issues on a notebook.
other than that its pretty good. tons of pro's , though the cons are obvious in that everything is designed to be for windows/os. there are just some things in windows you can't have in linux.

[crossmr]

Linux is great. I'd use it if I didn't play so many games. I just can't really get in to consoles (though I'm really enjoying my new psp). So when it comes to games its gotta be done on the PC and thats the way I've been doing it for 21 years. When I was in college I used linux exclusively on my laptop (FC4) and I have a dual boot set up with the latest ubuntu, but I rarely go in to it. At work I set up a virtual machine server on FC8 for our marketing department, they seem pretty happy with it.

[felinius]

If you want to play Windows games you can just partition your hard-drive to also have XP on it. :3

I'm not exactly a Linux lover, but it's interesting to play around with. I tried out SuSE Linux a couple of years ago on my laptop. I loved the games that came with it, but I couldn't figure out how to use WINE nor configure my internet. -Idiot -

[apparition]

I've played around with some distributions of linux (auditor/backtrack for my laptop, gentoox for my xbox1, knoppix and slax). i havent actually committed any computer to a full linux one and i've just been tinkering around with live versions and virtualized ones, but it seems to be quite something. but ive been on windows for most of my life and im a gamer...so linux isnt gonna work out for me -- it just doesnt have enough mainstream software support. i mean, there are windows-alternative of things, but its not quite the same.

and if you think about it, linux is everywhere... from routers, printers and cells and game and website servers you visit. its pretty amazing. too bad it hasnt caught on with windows or even osx even. linux is still missing the masses...

[crossmr]

If you want to play Windows games you can just partition your hard-drive to also have XP on it. :3

I'm not exactly a Linux lover, but it's interesting to play around with. I tried out SuSE Linux a couple of years ago on my laptop. I loved the games that came with it, but I couldn't figure out how to use WINE nor configure my internet. -Idiot -

I've done that, but since I'm randomly playing games there just isn't much benefit to boot up linux other than to just say "I"m running Linux right now". on any modern distribution your ethernet connection should work pretty effortlessly, just plug it in as long as you're router/modem is set up for dhcp.
if your have a strange ethernet card for which there is no included driver that's another story and its off to google you go.

[windsylph]

It's really too bad that linux isn't as popular among the general public, but they're missing out. I mean, once you learn it, (and it doesn't take long to learn), you don't go back ... unless the program you want only works on windows. That's the only issue with needing to have both, that and the fact that everyone else you know gets confused with terminals and other linux ways.

[angelqian]

yeah... Linux fails with games, but I can run it in VMWare, does that count?

[wiijee]

@sweetfish

it really IS the road less taken!!! my prof told me that only 1% of the human population use Linux...

for me, it was a weird thing at first because i was so used to using windows OS at home... but what inspired me to try open source software is a friend of mine who really is into this Open Source thing. he'd always mention about open source software, etc. linux, fedora, just name it.

all the desktops we use at school have Fedora OS so we have no choice but use it...

[chinguz]

^ same here at college they all use fedora OS.
i guess its only useful if you want to take a look at the source code of programs and learn from it. or if you are low on cash, its the way to go. (though people seem to find 'other' ways to get licensed software for windows, free of charge)

[StreakInTheSky]

I tried using several Linux builds but probably used Ubuntu the most. I set it all up and it's really nice. Then I tried playing music...

I realized I can't listen to music on anything but on my foobar2000, and it's bit buggy through wine, so I went back to XP.

Also had some hardware and driver problems. And I couldn't get the 64-bit version to boot.

Had lots of fun messing with compiz fusion though.

If you're building a system and don't want to pay for the OS or don't have a windows disk, a linux build is a great choice. But I recommend looking up hardware compatibility before you get rid of windows. The live cd's are great since you can test it out without installing.

[dot1q]

Linux is greeeeaaat~~ !! If I didn't have a need to play 3D games (don't say use Wine, virtualization, etc), I would probably switch to a Linux workstation on a permanent basis. But then again, Windows still drives almost all of corporate America, so still need to keep myself familiarized (for work). I do however like Vista a lot too.

If you really love Linux, familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of how Linux works (core components, file system structure, command line, etc). The GUI (Gnome, KDE, etc) is NOT Linux. Sadly, what small number of consumers that use Linux, also equate it to the XWindows frontend as opposed to the OS itself.

Unfrotunately all my Linux installations are for servers, so no GUI desktop to post.

Lets make this topic really popular so it can get pinned ~!!! Linux users unite~

[chinguz]

If you really love Linux, familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of how Linux works (core components, file system structure, command line, etc). The GUI (Gnome, KDE, etc) is NOT Linux. Sadly, what small number of consumers that use Linux, also equate it to the XWindows frontend as opposed to the OS itself.

I'm guilty!
The GUI is what makes the fun part of using these distro's. i try to get it similar to windows so I'm more familiar with operating it (though i do like a good looking desktop).

I had to learn linux in college and thats what pulled me in. its so diverse in what you can do.. and i still got a long way to go yet. but I'm loving it.

[angelqian]

Linux is greeeeaaat~~ !! If I didn't have a need to play 3D games (don't say use Wine, virtualization, etc), I would probably switch to a Linux workstation on a permanent basis. But then again, Windows still drives almost all of corporate America, so still need to keep myself familiarized (for work). I do however like Vista a lot too.

If you really love Linux, familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of how Linux works (core components, file system structure, command line, etc). The GUI (Gnome, KDE, etc) is NOT Linux. Sadly, what small number of consumers that use Linux, also equate it to the XWindows frontend as opposed to the OS itself.

Unfrotunately all my Linux installations are for servers, so no GUI desktop to post.

Lets make this topic really popular so it can get pinned ~!!! Linux users unite~

So, 3 monitors, 2 for Linux, 1 for Windows. Get a comfy chair.

[wiijee]

the bad side i'm seeing right now with Linux is that some programs (like games) don't work with it...

[Sweetfish]

Omg Yea lets make this thread super popular! Too bad there are soooo little people who are even capable of using linux.
And btw Chinguz, are you using Beryl or compiz or compiz fusion for your gnome desktop? Your's looks really cool.
I just figured out how to deleat all the panels from my desktop so it gives it this clean look!
Later I will post a tutorial of how to delete your panels. Its a really nifty trick if you have ether avant windows navigator or Kiba dock installed because generally they do everything a panel does.

I haven't gotten to try out Fedora yet, what is differnt from fedora and ubuntu?

And no GUI desktop! LAMEEE!!! I think thats the best part about linux!

Oh and another question for you guys!
are you using linux on a desktop or a laptop? I have mine installed in my Vaio laptop.

Haha I had to learn linux through trial and error. Gosh that was rough. I ended up going to the libary and reading all their linux books.
Then I started going to Linux forums for help, which greatly helped me. Now I have the basic knowledge to get around with ubuntu. I'm not genius at linux thou.

[kibi kibi]

your hilarious love. <3 xDDDD

[dot1q]

So, 3 monitors, 2 for Linux, 1 for Windows. Get a comfy chair.

I already have 4 monitors (1x30 2x24 1x19) for my main Vista rig. Rather than dedicated hardware (monitor + pc) to run Linux, I run Ubuntu on a VM on one my ESX servers and use XWindows to forward display to my Vista rig (has XWin installed). More efficient to run my Linux native apps. I don't need to run a Linux desktop. Unless it's for educational purposes, I don't feel the need to manage and use two different desktops.

[D_K]

Hmm..are most of you using a dual boot?