Comments on: Your First Steps With Linux: Revisited http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/02/20/your-first-steps-with-linux-revisited/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:40:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/02/20/your-first-steps-with-linux-revisited/#comment-8224 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:23:59 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/02/20/your-first-steps-with-linux-revisited/#comment-8224 I recommend Kubuntu since KDE seems to work better on aging machines, at least in my experiences. Also it is slightly more similar to Windows - with the K menu, a single toolbar on the bottom of the screen and all that. Good luck! I hope she likes it. :) I recommend Kubuntu since KDE seems to work better on aging machines, at least in my experiences. Also it is slightly more similar to Windows - with the K menu, a single toolbar on the bottom of the screen and all that.

Good luck! I hope she likes it. )

]]> by: Alphast http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/02/20/your-first-steps-with-linux-revisited/#comment-8221 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:30:08 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/02/20/your-first-steps-with-linux-revisited/#comment-8221 Hi everyone, I took a big decision last week: I am going to make my girlfriend switch from Win XP (which works very bad on her aging machine) to Linux. For this, I began the unaddiction measures I read in some Linux mag: first, make her switch within Windows to only non-windows apps: Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin (which already considerably improved things for her, with a noticeable speed increase), Open Office, IZarc and a couple of other useful applications. In a couple of weeks, I will plug a second HD in the available IDE slot and install Ubuntu. She won't really noticed the difference. Hi everyone,

I took a big decision last week: I am going to make my girlfriend switch from Win XP (which works very bad on her aging machine) to Linux. For this, I began the unaddiction measures I read in some Linux mag: first, make her switch within Windows to only non-windows apps: Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin (which already considerably improved things for her, with a noticeable speed increase), Open Office, IZarc and a couple of other useful applications. In a couple of weeks, I will plug a second HD in the available IDE slot and install Ubuntu. She won’t really noticed the difference.

]]> by: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/02/20/your-first-steps-with-linux-revisited/#comment-8186 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:32:49 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/02/20/your-first-steps-with-linux-revisited/#comment-8186 Yup, I tried it the other day on a spare machine and it worked amazingly well. I noticed that this is actually a great solution for working on a "borrowed" PC. There are 2 slow Windows boxen in the Adjunct office at my university. The IT re-images them once every 4 years or something like that. They are all really slow, and they have odd bits of spyware floating around (they run as Admin for some reason - probably so that professors can install more spyware as needed). I installed Wubi and now I have a clean and uncluttered OS running on one of them. At any point I can just go into Windows Add/Remove dialog and uninstall it. Cleans up really well. Perfect for someone who wants to try messing around with Linux for a little while without really committing to it. Yup, I tried it the other day on a spare machine and it worked amazingly well. I noticed that this is actually a great solution for working on a “borrowed” PC. There are 2 slow Windows boxen in the Adjunct office at my university. The IT re-images them once every 4 years or something like that. They are all really slow, and they have odd bits of spyware floating around (they run as Admin for some reason - probably so that professors can install more spyware as needed). I installed Wubi and now I have a clean and uncluttered OS running on one of them.

At any point I can just go into Windows Add/Remove dialog and uninstall it. Cleans up really well. Perfect for someone who wants to try messing around with Linux for a little while without really committing to it.

]]> by: jambarama http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/02/20/your-first-steps-with-linux-revisited/#comment-8178 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:10:39 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/02/20/your-first-steps-with-linux-revisited/#comment-8178 Now thats snazzy. I thought it was going to be something like <a href="http://www.andlinux.org/" rel="nofollow">andLinux</a> (formerly coLinux) or a binary compatible version of cygwin. This is really slick though, I'll have to try it out. Now thats snazzy. I thought it was going to be something like andLinux (formerly coLinux) or a binary compatible version of cygwin. This is really slick though, I’ll have to try it out.

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