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Originally posted by Antagony
No you don't. Can you play more than 5% of any of the current PC game demos? Do you use Adobe Photoshop? Or how about run any GUIs on an 8x AGP video card?
Look, Linux is great and I enjoy it. But saying that "you do everything that Winders-users can" is a load of crap. I would love to be able to live without Windows, but alas, I cannot.
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Games I'll give you, but photoshop I won't. Unless you're a graphic artist by profession (in which case you'd be using photoshop on a MacOSX box
), gimp is plenty fine for most things. In fact, even having MacOSX and photoshop I still do pleny of things using gimp on linux to do easy things faster.
The best tool for the job.
As to the thread:
I have several Linux boxen running my home network. I do almost all my work from my laptop, running linux. I use an ancient 486 laptop with it's own built in uninterrupable power supply off of one of the non-battery plugs on my UPS to monitor the UPS in case of power failure and talk to the non-essential boxes on the network to power down in order to save battery for the main server machines.
However, I have several older boxes running older versions of BSD, and I have both a MacOSX and MacOS9 box that are mainly used by the wife and kids (Okay, I find that more and more often I try to horn in on the MacOSX box myself.
Most of my hardware comes from frustrated Windows users who are throwing away Pentium, Pentium 2 and other hardware in their futile quest to keep up with the resource usage of Windows OS's. I can make 486's do useful work with Linux. It's also useful to keep current on even old technology. It's still in use in tons of places.
I'm a geek. Probably irradiated every time I go in my office.