Should I stay, or should I go?

moojuece · 03-11-2004, 09:46 AM

if you stay there will be trouble but if you go it will be double....

sorry could resist the clash quote

/home/kyle · 03-11-2004, 12:12 PM

hahaha

@ quietguy47
I dont want dual boots, I dont want windows and Linux, I dont want 2 distros of linux, I want 1 and only 1! I like to feel secure with my computer, I dont know how many times I have said this. I dont like to distro hope all over and not be able to settle down, that is one of the reasons I like windows...its all there and its easy to use. BUt I have decided to try linux, and thats what im going to do, and the distro I am using is Mandrake, not red hat, not slackware, not gentoo. MANDRAKE.

JaseP · 03-11-2004, 10:22 PM

'Drake ain't bad. I started with 'Drake (actually I REALLY started with SuSE 6.1, but at that time I was only playing with Linux).

Mandrake tends to be a little cutting edge, trying to beat the other distros out with a new feature or two. That tends to make it a little more prone to instability. That can be good or bad depending on your experience. I have actually toyed with the idea of going back to Mandrake with the release of Mandrake 10.0.

watashiwaotaku7 · 03-11-2004, 11:02 PM

dont set yourself on one distro yet, eventually yes, choose one and settle down if thats what you want, but there is a HUGE amount of difference between distros, in the end, i think gentoo is the best (meta)distro because it isnt a distro (hence the (meta)) and its amazingly versatile and easy to use, however for a newbie it is a horror to set up once youve learned a bit about linux switch to slackware a few months after that, switch to gentoo, and then never go back

witeshark · 03-11-2004, 11:25 PM

Well I voted stay. Did you see? There's a guess contest as to when we hit 100000 members - don't go now!

but anyway the nice thing about using doz for games is you can keep offline and play. No outlook - IE crap, just the games!

titanium_geek · 03-13-2004, 05:31 PM

who voted go?
sadistic people.

heheh.

glad you're staying. And remember, even though you can mess up, don't give up. we're here to help.

titanium_geek

Pauli · 03-13-2004, 08:58 PM

I dont know why you hate dual booting so much. Its not hard to do and is not more unreliable. Maybe you should learn more about it, having 2 OS's doesnt make your system worse, but more versatile.

kobs · 03-14-2004, 08:55 AM

Slackware wsa my first experience with Linux....I'm also dual booting too.

BajaNick · 03-14-2004, 01:36 PM

Just get a separate system for linux and a router and play Windows games on a different box.