In the grand scheme of things, a friendly place is inviting at a time when there is so many places that are tunnel focused. Fact is that if windows were to just die! It would be a major re-tooling of everything we take for granted. In enterprize systems, they commonly need to talk with remotes that are windows based. Imagine if your auto-registry, police - fire - ambulance, city council services, buses, cabs, manufacturing plants and much more all came to a halt because some part of the system chain was using a windows based program to facilitate a need.
On 5/15/2010 9:07 AM, malcolmlewis wrote:
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> Hi
> That’s why I have an xbox… car racing and flight sims for me. I can
> also stream videos/pictures/music etc with my NAS or using ushare.
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Isn’t the XBOX an MS product?
Yup, but the NAS runs linux/twonkymedia setup which the xbox works with
fine, ushare can be seen by it as well.
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Someone already mentioned checking your BIOS version which I would highly recommend that you check into. This has been a big issue with both Linux and Windows systems over the years.
I hate to burst your bubble but Linux has had similar problems especially with ATI and Nvidia drivers. It took me a year to finally work out most of the issues with sleep, shutdown, and hibernation on my Lenovo Thinkpad with Linux. It still isn’t perfect by any means.
I happen to pass-by and saw this post. I’m just following the thread title.
My take is I hope it won’t or I may loose my bread and butter til linux can run autocad or revit and some other architectural rendering beasts applications I will not turn my back on winblows.
Just my half a cent worth thought.
I don’t think there is much danger of this thread title becoming reality. As much as many of us might dislike M$, it has it’s place and is for many a great OS.
Bricscad for linux native CAD at last? - openSUSE Forums
Bricscad for linux (currently beta) is being actively developed and the beta version is already quite stable and usable. A very, very good, professional autocad clone. I’ll certainly buy a couple licenses when its released.
Also see: RibbonSoft
(They have free community edition too).
Also, is it very cheap!
I’m posting in reply for the last two posts. Guys nice to know of those positive news regarding cad applications in linux. Thanks for this informations.
In the market place, it’s almost all maybe not 100% are using the ones I mentioned in my first post and only time will tell if this trend is going to change. Maybe if lucky enough I am fully retired when the time of cad in linux will be popular.
The world looks so much better without windows and gates
Gates’s already gone… well mostly… He’s a ‘good guy’ now… rotfl!
Probably got a dose of guilty concience when he realised he had scammed so many people and felt he had to repay some of his money…
Remember when the Soviets just died … oooof! … for millions of eastern europeans with bad habits such as working and eating … it was a rough ride
I f that wish will come true. I will follow the tittle of an old western movie that says,** " May God forgive you, I wont"**.
I have an active dislike for Microsoft primarily because they make poor quality products and market them in a deceptive fashion. I don’t however think Microsoft should die as I believe in co-operation and interoperability between operating systems.
There is also something in the line of “keeping your enemies closer” that rings true here. Microsoft’s presence is Linux’s gain.
Microsoft just does what it has to do as a commercial capitalist company: do anything to remain profitable. It has nothing to do with “them” (or Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer) being evil or whatever. Any company which wants to survive and keep control has to use every possible way to gain profit. There’s neither a need nor a use to hate Microsoft.
I suggest to ignore them instead.
I guess windows is better then? If Graphics are important to you?
In what way is Windows better graphicswise? Some extensively designed games run well via Wine, so obviously Linux is capable of running such games - only they are hardly programmed for Linux.
I think you are right; I do not think that there is anything intrinsically better about graphics on a Win. 7 platform vs. Opensuse.
Hello,
To say win7 is better graphics wise … it’s a joke right?
Win7 TODAY can not even come close to the kind of eye-candy magic that can be created with compiz + any number of theme engines + any number of docks/panels + multiple choice for the entire desktop environments even though EVERYONE knows gnome is the BEST. Us tux folk have a lot of flexibility … we can make it look EXACTLY the way we want it to look.
And we can do all this with an older gpu, 1/2 the memory aero needs just to contemplate loading, and an even older petium-m cpu …
I really can’t believe that even the smallest THOUGHTS of M$ having good graphics make thier way into peoples heads … someone call an exorcist!
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I started using linux about 1 year ago and have tried a few distros now and I like a few of them also. Fedora, Mandriva, Mint, openSUSE these are the one’s I have installed at the moment, all these work very well for me. I am also testing Ubuntu 10.10. I have been at all the forums for these distros and there is always threads like this. And I wonder why people persist with an operating system they either can not use or does not work for them. Surely linux is adequate if the others are not.