Ahh young Ilander, I was once like you and had that silly little voice nagging me to use Linux.
Unfotrtunantly I learnt the hard way just how fun Linux is...
If you like coding and using command lines, use (generally) dodgy free apps (I am well aware that there are some very good free apps out there),then you will have a ball, if you want to do anything else, then stick with Windows
or even a Mac (never thought I would say that)
Yes, there ARE games for Linux (ZOMG!!!1 Freeware Warcraft!!!! and Tux Racer, fun for hours!!!!)
And it is true that many people have managed to get cool games like Doom III, HL2 and others to work in windows emulators, but its not as simple as double clicking on an executable and takes time, which you may very well like wasting, but I didn't (not trying to say you like wasting time
)
Anyways, i'm sure freeware OS's are the way of the future, but I like it to just work, I want to come home from a long day at work, turn on my pc and do nothing but double click and icon on my desktop and run Oblivion, or whatever decent/demanding app I have.
But I suggest you try it for yourself, just dont install it on the same drive(s) as your windows instillation
I will admit though, I could not be bothered asking the general public for help, which would seem like something that one must do to have a good time with it.
Yes, I had horrible experiances with Linux, Fedora Core 3 was the closest I had to success, but I got sick of opening the terminal and using commands to do menial tasks that were impossible to find through the OS menu.
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[ 04-20-2006, 03:24 AM: Message edited by: Hivetyrant ]