I'm back! Ciao MS! Hello FC3

[carbo18]

God... It's been almost 5 months I haven't been active on the forum.

Made my first post in a while today. Feels good to be back.

I have decided that FC3 will mark the distro that I will officially not use Windows or any MS product at home for the rest of my life. NO more dual booting.

Well I dare most of you, who are not yet doing the same to join me. :D

Cheers.

[imdeemvp]

Well I dare most of you, who are not yet doing the same to join me.
Thats not my case because I am force to use MS at home(kids pc) and at work all xp pro terminals. I try to use FC2 at least 99% of the time at home and my kids are picking up slowly.

[Shadow Skill]

Tell me there is a torrent for the 32 bit and 64 bit versions..I cant find one I keep seeing test 3 torrents...I want to have it ready to burn by tonight after class...

[imdeemvp]

Distrowatch has not anounced yet...maybe later in the day.

[Jman]

I admire your dedication, carbo. I don't think I could make it for a lifetime.

I spend the majority of my computer time on Linux, but am not above dual booting.

[carbo18]

Well I'm just getting tired of having to update both operating systems, and going from one to the other all the time...

Most of the application I use have a Linux conterpart and most of the games(NWN, UT2004, etc) I play can be played on Linux.

So what the hell.

It will be Linux for life and Fedora... well as long as Fedora last and Linux too. I should have maybe said open source and free for life! :o

[jtang613]

Been Linux-only for 8 months... Although, I've been a serious Linux user since RedHat 7.0.

The real trick is making sure any hardware you buy is Linux-compatible, before you buy it ;)

[LanceM]

Stopped using Windows at home when FC2 was released. Unfortunately I don't have a choice at work.

[megaprogman]

Well, i am working on the first phase of that ideal.

I am in the middle of switching my home server over to fedora core 2 (im planning to stick 1 version behind for (possibly imagined) stability reasons). However, I will probably need to keep one computer running windows xp for school reasons, but i doubt i will ever upgrade to longhorn.

[ewdi]

too bad i cant commit to fedora core fully yet as my work laptop still uses RHEL since i dont tingle with latest stuff on my laptop :p too much work to save

[crackers]

At home, we have been Windows-free for 21 months. Thank you, Codeweavers! (Trying to get the wife off of Quicken 99 and into something like KMyMoney or moneydance.)

[Dog-One]

Three down, two to go around here. My wife insists OpenOffice won't properly handle her PowerPoint slides (I think it's a font issue) and I'm not sure I'll ever get the gaming machine fully Microsoft free (thanks to DirectX).

[megaprogman]

font issues are easy to take care of:
1. go to control panel -> fonts
2. copy and paste all fonts into a new folder
3. grab key drive or blank cd
4. copy to key drive
5. go to nautilus type in fonts:///
6. copy fonts from key drive over to nautilus folder (do this as root)
7. restart x

As far as i can figure out, this is legal if you own legals copies of all the software you got the fonts from in the first place.

[Maiyah]

bought a laptop a couple weeks ago, and immediately wiped windows off and installed fedora on it ^^ didn't give dual booting a chance. going completely linux on it. although i am sorta cheating since i still have windows xp on my desktop, but that can't be helped. i use it mainly for gaming (especially ffxi) that still isn't compatible with linux.

[Uhlix]

bought a laptop a couple weeks ago, and immediately wiped windows off and installed fedora on it ^^ didn't give dual booting a chance. going completely linux on it. although i am sorta cheating since i still have windows xp on my desktop, but that can't be helped. i use it mainly for gaming (especially ffxi) that still isn't compatible with linux.

in the same boat as you, have linux on my latop and XP on desktop just because of EQ and soon EQ2 or WoW which ever i decied to play.

[wct1490]

I need photoshop and dreamweaver for now
dual boot will be fine
I think the ideas is to make the machine work for you...not the other way round.
:)

[LiNUxG0d]

I need photoshop and dreamweaver for now
dual boot will be fine
I think the ideas is to make the machine work for you...not the other way round.
:)

I believe the savvy would say:

- Get GIMP 2.0+ (http://www.gimp.org).
- Get NVU (http://www.nvu.com/).

I believe making the machine work for you, would have entitled a little google'ing to replace your Dreamweaver. ;)

The GIMP opens up PSD's like a snap, and NVU is a real charm to work with. Beautiful! It rivals Dreamweaver on a few aspects, I'm 100% sure about this; so's my webmaster.

I took the pluge too boys and girls. My explorer.exe started crashing after 2 years flawless on some XP release. I decided to install FC2. I haven't been disspointed yet. I've been admining about 70 machines in console for quite a while now for a Webhost and I must say that the transition to - yes, oh yes - full Linux X is amazing and quite the charm.

Let's say, so far, the only problems I've had is XMMS and mp3's. I worked around by installing Zinf (http://www.zinf.org/). Being as I use Dreamweaver, NVU was an amazing stumble-upon! The cherry on the whipped cream was double-clicking a PSD with my GIMP... it opened! Layered and all! It was like XMAS! :)

I'm really impressed.

So far, the only hurdle is that I have some TTF's that I'm trying to install and my stupid fonts:/// won't let me copy it. I don't know why. I've tried copy/paste/cut from the font folder to the fonts:/// server and no go. It doesn't appear in the list.

Anyone care to share a fix? I stumbled here because of previous posts regarding fonts within the thread.

Thanks in advance!

- J

P.S. I noticed someone mentionned using a desktop for learning their children? I don't see why you don't teach them console/X-server. This is far more powerful than any Windows box. Besides, I started when I was 7 years old using - *gulps* - DOS. Being as I'm 22 now, I'd say if I had to start over, *nix would be the way to go. Of course, all the pretty images make it waaaay more attractive, nowadays. :p

[Barus]

real[/B] charm to work with. Beautiful! It rivals Dreamweaver on a few aspects, I'm 100% sure about this; so's my webmaster.

As a webmaster I use NVU and The Gimp too and it works great!
First I used Dreamweaver and Photoshop, but now I'm running 100% open source :)

[Myra]

I've started the slow process to convert the last program I need to Linux. It's the sole reason I dual boot so with that running natively on Linux I will be on Fedora 100%! Can't wait!

[carbo18]

I am now 100% linux. After running FC3 in dual boot for about a month, to test stability, I have now wiped windows off my hard-drive.

Freedom from M$... FEEL GREAT!!! :D

[ghaefb]

That's good to know.
Welcome to the "club" :p