What is holding you back from linux?

[MaxSt]

Its not harder.

How would you do it?

[ASCI Blue]

poor gaming support, occasionally poor driver support (has ATI gotten any better, nVidia used to be passable), additional headache is poor media support. My current computer has a BD drive in it, it's been a pain in the ass with Windows which tells me a nightmare in linux to be able to watch movies.

[Lazy8s]

You don't need to run CLI. Ubuntu is CL free. It does everything for you just like windows. Only there for people that prefer it or last resort on fixing something.

Whats holding linux back is ignorance.

Ubuntu is too easy.

Yeah, I went there.

Ubuntu's latest with Unity pretty much strips away any arguments against giving a distro a shot.

-No CLI needed at all, for the average user.
-Sets up everything, except drivers in rare cases.
-PnP is almost too willing to do whatever is needed and hardware recognition is light years beyond what it was in 2010.

Lot more pluses I don't feel like typing out atm.

Linux has a distro for any taste, from the simple to barebones, build it/compile it yourself distros and everything in between.

But as long as DX owns the market, linux will never take a majority share of the gamers out there.

Lets see what the future holds...

[Sound_Card]

How would you do it?

You simply root to what ever drive you want just like windows. dev/sd1(2,3,4,5 etc). Not sure how that is harder.

[kingofslackerz]

Ubuntu is too easy.

Yeah, I went there.

Ubuntu's latest with Unity pretty much strips away any arguments against giving a distro a shot.

-No CLI needed at all, for the average user.
-Sets up everything, except drivers in rare cases.
-PnP is almost too willing to do whatever is needed and hardware recognition is light years beyond what it was in 2010.

Lot more pluses I don't feel like typing out atm.

Linux has a distro for any taste, from the simple to barebones, build it/compile it yourself distros and everything in between.

But as long as DX owns the market, linux will never take a majority share of the gamers out there.

Lets see what the future holds...

It still couldn't figure out how to handle two monitors without tearing. (Nvidia)

[RAY16]

I wouldn't call Ubuntu completely CLI-free, but it's certainly where you'll run into it the least.

Personally, I can't stand the Unity desktop.

[noko]

Time.

[Bigfoot]

OpenCL support and in general new hardware. I love linux with a passion, but if I buy cutting edge hardware (second time I've done that) I end up having to run windows for 6 months or so while things stabilize.

[Lazy8s]

I wouldn't call Ubuntu completely CLI-free, but it's certainly where you'll run into it the least.

Personally, I can't stand the Unity desktop.

Unity really threw me when it was first rolled out. I still don't care for the implementation....eh, wrong word....the "app launcher" idea, but it blows win8's start menu away.

@kingofslackerz - I didn't"t use multi monitor much, but yeah, I had read it was somewhat buggy.

[BababooeyHTJ]

You don't need to run CLI. Ubuntu is CL free. It does everything for you just like windows. Only there for people that prefer it or last resort on fixing something.

Whats holding linux back is ignorance.

My old laptop feels much more responsive with Windows 7 than it did with Ubuntu.

[Trunks0]

You don't need to run CLI. Ubuntu is CL free. It does everything for you just like windows. Only there for people that prefer it or last resort on fixing something.

Whats holding linux back is ignorance.

Till they need to trouble shoot something or start changing settings. Then there is a very good chance they are are going to be faced with CLI commands that are quiet confusing.

[badboy]

games

[MaxSt]

You simply root to what ever drive you want just like windows. dev/sd1(2,3,4,5 etc). Not sure how that is harder.

If it's so simple, how come it doesn't work?

[t3hl33td4rg0n]

If it's so simple, how come it doesn't work?

Hahahahahaha.

For me, its gaming and driver support for the most part. Not much reason otherwise, other than that, Photoshop and Premier. I'm sure GIMP is great, but ive been used to Photoshop and the GIMP UI leaves a lot to be desired IMO, not sure of any good video editors on Linux.

[kingofslackerz]

Still can't find nvidia drivers that will even get me to a desktop gui. Black screen with multiple repositories, nvidia-current, or w/e. I've quit for the most part.

Even if drivers work, whose to say the refresh rate tearing issues even go away. Once Xserver is gone I may give it a legitimate shot.

[Rambozo]

Gaming, primarily. Second to that would have to be my inability to fix broken packages.

[FiggyG]

Still can't find nvidia drivers that will even get me to a desktop gui. Black screen with multiple repositories, nvidia-current, or w/e. I've quit for the most part.

Even if drivers work, whose to say the refresh rate tearing issues even go away. Once Xserver is gone I may give it a legitimate shot.

Wow, I haven't seen your name in quite a while. Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with nVidia on Linux, but I'm down to help you get it up and running if you like.

[kingofslackerz]

Wow, I haven't seen your name in quite a while. Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with nVidia on Linux, but I'm down to help you get it up and running if you like.

Thx for the offer, but my spirit is broken for a bit, lol.

[AluminumHaste]

Getting Kubuntu and Mint Linux installed on my desktop has been a nightmare. Random crashes and reboots, stuttering window resizing etc.
It's like at a Windows 95 state stability wise.
Windows 7>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*nix. I can't remember the last time I had a blue screen or crash while just reading a web page or browsing files lol.
And having to use the Terminal for lots of stuff, which isn't that big of a deal I guess, just spoiled with GUIs.
And games run like **** compared to windows. There is very little reason to use it aside from certain apps like server software, or you're just curious like me.

[JohnEJohn]

Games, speed, hardware compatibility and ease of use is why I stick with windows.

I have used various versions on Linux, especially when I had to use it at uni for some custom apps etc but I felt that it was overly complicated for the most part, especially in places where it really didn't need to be.

I have been using win7/8/8.1 for a loooong time now and I haven't experienced any system crashes, apart from self inflicted ones from beta drivers etc and all of my hardware has always had up to date, stable drivers.

Imo, Microsoft outdid themselves with win7 ultimate x64.

[FiggyG]

Thx for the offer, but my spirit is broken for a bit, lol.

You're welcome

Getting Kubuntu and Mint Linux installed on my desktop has been a nightmare. Random crashes and reboots, stuttering window resizing etc.
It's like at a Windows 95 state stability wise.
Windows 7>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*nix. I can't remember the last time I had a blue screen or crash while just reading a web page or browsing files lol.
And having to use the Terminal for lots of stuff, which isn't that big of a deal I guess, just spoiled with GUIs.
And games run like **** compared to windows. There is very little reason to use it aside from certain apps like server software, or you're just curious like me.

It's looking like some issues with the reverse engineered nVidia driver nouveau.

[AluminumHaste]

Except I'm running AMD

[FiggyG]

Except I'm running AMD

Yeah, the default open source drivers for AMD's GCN cards is in rough shape currently too

[AluminumHaste]

Apparently the open source drivers are currently like 3 generations behind, so I had to use the proprietary drivers from AMD. Maybe that's the problem?