Posted on 07/29/2012 2:19:06 PM PDT by ShadowAce
Even if I've been using Linux since Red Hat 5.0 I still boot Windows to run Adobe Lightroom, Facebook video calling. Instead of Linux I got a hackintoshed HP netbook running Apple OS X 10.6 which is cool...
7Zip works fine!
I had accidently set IE as my default unzipper. Let me tell you, do NOT ever do that. It’s not pretty. I had to log off to make it stop flashing black and white.
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BTW
I rebooted with a live disc, PCLinuxOS or something. I am online with no problem. I can imagine all you need is an old laptop without a hard drive, just use the live disc and a memory card and you are A-okay.
I’ve got a Zorin/Ubuntu/Win 7 triple boot on my netbook. Personally I like using Linux but I don’t think I’ll ever make a total switch away from Windows.
I tried to login to my nephew’s Hero Up account but it told me you need a Windows or Apple O/S to play. Weird.
Oh good lord! Ubuntu has been unusable since version 10.10.
I gave it a good long try, upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04 to 11.10-- all stunk on ice. I went back to Ubuntu 10.04 and disabled updates.
Firefox is okay, but with Konqueror browser, even Yahoo won’t work properly. weird.
Not ready for prime time?
I attempted to play a game that was on the live disc and my entire system went dead. I couldn’t get it to turn back on until I took the battery out and I rebooted into Windows Vista.
Thanks for the tip. I'll give that a try. Are there any problems finding drivers for the Suse distribution? (I had a devil of a time finding them for Ubuntu.)
I believe that the ability to unzip files is built into Vista... I know it is in Win7. Personally, I always use 7zip, and you can get it free from download.com Mark
Thank you for this.
marked for later.
My large IT company next laptop refresh is soon coming with Linux OS, (Redhat I believe), with Windows running underneath it. Some guys are already testing this platform and they love it.
And Cisco, Stanford University and many, many other companies, universities, etc.
Why does Linux make “unpacking” compressed files so hard?
Hard? What is hard about double clicking, or simply typing unrar, unzip, tar or whatever in a terminal? I am stupefied at the things people find difficult. Don't buy a new phone, or DVD player or such, because they will be "hard" too. Perhaps impossibly so.
I must be weird. When I need to do something I have never done before I simply read some instructions and then do it. It is only hard if no instructions are available, and that is hardly true for such basic tools as tar, unzip, unrar, etc.
It basically crashed my computer. That is “hard”. Somehow my computer picked up something called “Stuffit” and it was super annoying.
I think they are embarrassed to say how few.
Embarrassed? About what? Who cares about how many people switch from Windows to Linux? I certainly don't. I am confident that crap whisky outsells top shelf single malt Scotch, but I don't use that as a guide as to what I prefer to drink. I am also confident that the number of people who eat at McDonald's every day outstrips those eating at truly fine restaurants too, and by a wide margin at that. So what. Does that make McDonald's better? Hardly. All that matters is that, thanks to the community of users and contributors that does exist (however large or small the number may be), Linux and GNU are both fantastically competitive products providing many people with choices they wouldn't have otherwise. Nothing embarrassing about quality, and that is what we have.
Unpacking a file crashed your computer, and installed a program which won’t run on Linux? That is certainly interesting. But, I don’t really see how it demonstrates that unpacking itself is hard. It might show you did something you shouldn’t have, or were trying to open something which shouldn’t have been opened. These are equally possible with any OS and so it doesn’t show that a particular task is hard to do. Double clicking is simply not hard, and since that is how the same thing is done in Windows it just doesn’t seem possible to argue that it is harder in Linux.
Me too, and like I said it makes a great rescue disk. I used Linux as my desktop about ten years ago, but reluctantly went back to Windows. Every year or so I try a few distributions, get disappointed and stay with Windows. This past year, one of the "spins" had a virus and tried to steal my email account.
This.
I actually have a dual boot system on my Toshiba Satellite with Win 7 and Ubuntu. I was trying to help a friend who’s SATA interface died on a Gateway 23” all in one machine. It’s not really feasible to buy and install a new motherboard. I’ve got him back online using Ubuntu and Firefox from a flash drive. Ubuntu doesn’t like my Toshiba at all, maybe because it’s a newer machine. I need to take it off the Toshiba but that’s no simple task either and with a 1 Tb HDD it really doesn’t bother me too much. Simple fact of the matter, as others have said, is Linux is not ready for prime time yet and probably never will be.
Amazing the first paragraph doesn’t mention cost as a reason.
That may not matter a whole lot to westerners, but software is the same price in Asia as in the west, therefore a much higher percentage of disposable income. Windows Ultimate costs more than most people here (Thailand) make in a month.
>>btw... is there a free unzip software for Vista?
Any that work on Windows 7 should work on Vista, but Vista? What a terrible OS.. Anyway, there are many. Personally I like peazip. Sourceforge is the first place to look for safe freeware.
http://sourceforge.net/directory/os:windows/freshness:recently-updated/?q=zip
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