Linux good?

[Manar]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm a first time builder and I dont want to spend an extra 100$ right away on windows. So I was planning to get linux and wait for windows 10 to be out and grab it. But, is linux anygood?

I will be doing video editing with vegas pro, and school work with my pc, and a little of gaming. Should i installe it?

[79wjd]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm a first time builder and I dont want to spend an extra 100$ right away on windows. So I was planning to get linux and wait for windows 10 to be out and grab it. But, is linux anygood?

I will be doing video editing with vegas pro, and school work with my pc, and a little of gaming. Should i installe it?

If everything you want to run is supported on Linux, then it's excellent. 

[Speedbird]

Not sure if you can install Vegas on Linux. And only some games are available right now. You can get Windows 8.1 and get a free upgrade to 10.

[Satlen]

The different distros of linux are good but a lot of the windows software you will want to use does not exist. So you will have to install virtualbox or use wine to run those.

[Opcode]

You would be better suited to run Windows, the question is can you live with the free alternatives on Linux until then?

[madcow]

If you have never used Linux and are just expecting a drop in replacement for Windows then it will probably not work out for you.

 

Why not grab the Windows 10 developer preview? It is free isn't it?

[Opcode]

If you have never used Linux and are just expecting a drop in replacement for Windows then it will probably not work out for you.

 

Why not grab the Windows 10 developer preview? It is free isn't it?

It is but with the active keylogger among other data collection I feel as if using it as a primary OS is just ludacris.

[faster-eddy]

Yes Linux is great. In most ways you will not notice any difference from windows. Bonus - pop ups and malware have a great difficulty accidentally getting installed on your machine. Anti virus  not necessary. A lot of great free software and applications. Software doesn't piggyback into your machine so easily (ask toolbar , Bing etc.)

Most windows apps will work under wine including Vegas Pro <<http://www.heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php>.You may not need Vegas. My experience has been that Linux apps are often equal or better than windows apps.WINE has a bit of a learning curve for us NEWBS but there is a lot of help.

Gaming has come a long way in the past year big games like Borderlands 2 and the Pre-Sequel are Linux now. Civilization 5, Metro 2033 - last light, . Over 700 games and more coming.

 

I would save the $100 on windows - maybe buy it later as a nice to have feature .

Good luck!

 

[Redliub]

It really depends on what sort of distro you're looking at. While Ubuntu may jump out to you at first I'd advise you stay away from it as it is incredibly bloated and overloaded with promo software (not everyone uses LibreOffice and Firefox lol) it's a waste of electricity as far as your CPU/GPU goes.

Bloated? Compared to what? Ah, Arch.

 

If Ubuntu is bloated then Windows is morbidly obese...well, maybe that's true but whatever. It's a fantastic OS. If you don't want to spend all of your time faffing around with configuration and you just want to get shit done, Ubuntu is the best Linux experience for you.

[ohJey]

Bloated? Compared to what? Ah, Arch.

 

If Ubuntu is bloated then Windows is morbidly obese...well, maybe that's true but whatever. It's a fantastic OS. If you don't want to spend all of your time faffing around with configuration and you just want to get shit done, Ubuntu is the best Linux experience for you.

True that.  People can always use Xubuntu or Lubuntu if they want a light OS

[Redliub]

Productivity is also present in other distros as well, such as Mint or (what I'm currently using) #!. GIMP, Iceweasel, Skype, and my OS infrastructure all run in great harmony with each other on a legacy atom netbook here, which I doubt Ubuntu would be able to pull off. Modern hardware really shouldn't suffer all too much with any OS, Windows or Ubuntu or otherwise.

 

Configuring your operating system is really a one-time process and has a lot of benefits on down the road. Arch may be a "pain" to set up, but once you get it going everything is just the way you want it, with zero unnecessary bells/whistles tagged on that you don't use. It's a minimalist approach to Linux, and I appreciate minimalism in any field. Why have excess?

Here's the problem with that statement: it's the way you want it, not the way someone else does. Ubuntu can absolutely handle all that.

 

Arch is not worth setting up. Whatever efficiency a linux newb may gain from it in the long run is lost in the frustration spent during the initial configuration. It confounds me these days why there's still a movement that still thinks making computing harder for the masses is the best way to do stuff. No. That's supremacist bullshit. 

[Redliub]

Why do you think yours are somehow above others'? That's supremacist bullshit.

I don't. What I don't appreciate, however, is the holier-than-thou Linux user archetype which you fulfill quite well.

 

If you think interface design is about statistics then you've never designed an interface. Which would make sense, given you use Arch.

 

Don't act like I've never configured shit as hardcore as Arch. Fuck Linux, I run OpenBSD and Minix on the desktop. Is that a badge of honor? For you, maybe, but for me, it's just another way of saying "I'm too smart for GUIs so I use OSes without them and you should too otherwise you're not hardcore."

[faster-eddy]

I love linux - Don't let us Linux nuts scare you about which flavour is best - Just jump in the water is warm.

[Opcode]

Productivity is also present in other distros as well, such as Mint or (what I'm currently using) #!. GIMP, Iceweasel, Skype, and my OS infrastructure all run in great harmony with each other on a legacy atom netbook here, which I doubt Ubuntu would be able to pull off. Modern hardware really shouldn't suffer all too much with any OS, Windows or Ubuntu or otherwise.

All of that software runs without a hitch on Ubuntu as well. If you didn't know Mint is derived from Ubuntu. Linux Mint 17 runs off of the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS base distro. The only thing they do is repack the DE, apps, etc.

[cisto1999]

1) If you just go for linux to save 100$ i am afraid you won´t be happy with it because although some Linux-distros are really very user-friendly today there will inevitably be a learning-curve if you switch from Win to Linux. You should switch to Linux only if you want to learn something new and accept a long way of trial and error

2) Some programms maybe won´t work in Linux. Wine is not always a good alternative.

3) If you need the pc for work you are in a kind of "pressure"-situation that everything has to work... so i would not do the experiment without having another "backup"-solution.

 

My advice: Go for Win and try Linux parallel - since most Linux Distros are free you can download them all and try which one fits you most and then do the first steps... and maybe you switch later on because you like Linux ;-)

Since there is (as far i know "non confirmed") rumour that Win 10 will be free for all Win 8 users you won´t lose money if you want to have it anyway. Worst case (if rumour is false) would be that you have to pay 30 bugs or so for upgrade...

 

I myself use both - Win and Linux and i like Linux very much.