Thread: Whats your OS?

Originally Posted by parkerskouson

Hey guys! Should I put Ubuntu on my tablet? Just to try? I think I might even be able to dual boot it will android!

It would be cool to play with.

You know, I have more computers in my house than ever before, but none of them are spares. Years ago, there was the home PC and all of my "lab" stuff, but now everybody has their own. My finals for Summer courses were done yesterday so I have about a week off school; maybe I'll go home and mess around with my laptop this evening.

I dual boot 7 and Mint 13? right now, but I rarely use windows except for netflix.

I am running mint 12 now. It is not completely stable for me. Freezes every now and again and I have to force quit/restart. Maybe once a week. If I run any sound/video ..... Banshee, Rhythmbox ..Gnome Mplayer ... the sound or video will continue to run but the mouse becomes completely non functional. Very annoying. I've gone to mint forums and read that others suffer with this and no fix AFAIK.

I have windows (barf) 7 on my laptop and it is flawless for the past year.

This is the problem with desktop Linux. You want a stable database or webserver, it's the OS for you. You want multimedia to work on whatever hardware you might have - as long as someone else developed that solution as part of some commercial program they were working on and contributed it to the community, yeah, it'll probably work. You're pretty much on your own for support, though. Which is a lot better than the way it used to be - multimedia was a joke when there was no driver for your sound card or aftermarket video card.

I mean, Android is customized Java on customized Linux, which has the support of millions of devices and Google, and it still glitches frequently enough to be a PITA.

Wow, I'm amazed at the proliferation of Linux in its various distributions. I carried it on a USB stick for booting up and diagnosing broken PCs, but never dared to install it on my own computers...

Originally Posted by parkerskouson

Hey guys! Should I put Ubuntu on my tablet? Just to try? I think I might even be able to dual boot it will android!

You definitely should! Most Android tablets can do that and are able to dual boot!

Originally Posted by Mvcrash

I think one of the best uses for Linux is as a Forensic platform, Linux easily mounts drives without altering data so you can take a quick look.

This is just one of the many best uses of Linux.

Why the hate for DOS?

Originally Posted by DFriedl

multimedia was a joke when there was no driver for your sound card or aftermarket video card.

Back when it was Fedora 5 my freshly installed system froze at startup. A friend who is a sys ad with 30 years of unix experience found that by going to a terminal and commenting out a command in the sound card everything worked. I would have been dead in the water if it hadn't been for him. It is a lot better now with the GUI and that. I can do some things with the command line but I'm no expert. Still love linux though. I have two towers running that I paid for the hardware but not a dime for software and they do virtually everything a windows box will do.