I am Linux in a box

[resdudeornardude]

I've never actually tryed Linux since I'm used to windows... is it kinda like windows or... well does it support .exes and stuff like steam xfire yatta yatte?

[Tyke91]

Windows is to Linux as driving a car is to riding a motorcycle. There is a bit of a learning curve, and you cannot just switch from one to another.

to make things short:

don't expect windows executables to work right away, they wont. They were built for WINDOWS. there's a pretty snazzy emulator/compatability layer called WINE that can run many windows programs, but it wont catch everything.

I recommend doing some research and learning for yourself.

[TeensAreNotChildren]

I recently bought Ubuntu Linux on a laptop. It is very similar to Windows, including a "start" menu albeit with a different name.

The problem is that Linux won't run my Dialup software due to being incompatible with many Windows aps.

Plus when I switched to 800x600 mode, I discovered it was impossible to go back to 1280x1024 since the Desktop Properties box was bigger than the screen!

So basically it's non-compatible and non-user friendly.

I'd recommend Mac OS as an alternative, not Linux.

[resdudeornardude]

I uses MAC at school... not too eazy to get used to... and .exes didnt work.

[arkindal]

Duh of course they didn't, it's not windows, this doesn't mean that windows is better-.-

[HongKongKanto]

lol where u are at a server?

[snowraver1]

Why are the printed signs cut out and pasted on another piece of paper? Can Linux not print in landscape mode?

[ASCII808]

Love the servers in the background, reminds me of the 128 dell xeons at my school.