My PC is now Windows Free

superdumbell · #1 4th July 2005, 06:18 PM

I finaly desided to take the leap and take windows completely off of my computer and now all I have is Fedora Cora 2, some of the things that helped me switched to linux are the Games and RAD programming tools for linux, REALbasic 2005 and Lazarus, and as far as the games I found www.happypenguin.org. I have got every thing exept for my printer and scanner to work which is a Lexmark X1185 that I got from wal-mart, my TV Tunner and 3Dfx card work fine, I wanted to put Fedora Core 4 on my computer but I had problems with my ltmodem on Core 4 and I dont have a copy of FC3. but the good thing is that I was able to get OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta installed. After having Fedora I never want to switch back to windows

SuperNu · #2 5th July 2005, 03:14 AM

Congrats on going Windows free. I have been Windows free now for a few years and I don't see a need to ever install Windows again.

--SN

nandowong · #3 5th July 2005, 03:57 AM

congrats, I got rid of my dual boot crutch almost a year ago and have not looked back since.

I do use wine for some school software, it keeps me from having to instal windows

gavinw6662 · #4 5th July 2005, 04:02 AM

nice, very nice. I still haven't switched 100%, but maybe soon!!!

iamroot · #5 5th July 2005, 01:09 PM

Congrats!!! I've been without Windows for 2 years now and still going strong=)

Urameshi · #6 8th July 2005, 03:23 AM

I am having the same problem you are. i have the same printer and there isn't a driver for it. you have to download it. the name of the driver is z600. it comes with a shell script. although i downloaded the driver, i can't get it to work. if this information is useful and you install the printer sucessfully, PLEASE REPLY.

vishnumrao · #7 8th July 2005, 03:55 AM

I too had a dual boot till about a week back when I removed my Xp boot. I am not going back to windows ever again. I have had absolutely no issues with FC4. All my hard ware got detected and FC4 runs smoothly right out of the box.

Fedora rocks, absolutely.
Glory to the penguin.

Cheers,
Vishnu Murahari Rao.

Optimal Aurora · #8 8th July 2005, 04:00 AM

Congradulations, you done something I wouldn't do. Its not that I am scared of leaving windows, but I want to keep up the experience and skills require to use certain windows apps and administering a windows server ran network, that is why I keep windows and besides I like it for graphics. So for me Dual Booting is the only key...

CuCullin · #9 8th July 2005, 04:30 AM

Good stuff

I try to keep my win-usage to a minimum a best. I recently thought I could go windows free - and perhaps I'll be able to soon, for now I have a hacked up lite version I messed with to run only the few things I want (specifically, I need to use AutoCAD at home, work-related.). Hopefully I'll find a cad/cam project worthy of replacing (or atleast supporting until it can replace) autocad.

sueltraz · #10 12th July 2005, 04:46 PM

Alas...I am addicted to Half-Life 2. DAMN IT VALVE! Will you just port the damn thing to Linux and be done with it?

defkewl · #11 12th July 2005, 05:01 PM

WIll your printer and scanner work on your current fedora instalation?

Alerander · #12 30th July 2005, 08:38 AM

Good! Very Good!
You do finish the works I can't do, I have to install windows for my school softwares such as Matlab, Multisim2001, I wander if I can get materials instead them under my FC4!

imdeemvp · #13 30th July 2005, 10:11 AM

I am trying and unfortually I needed for my sony clie palm device.....

Knudson · #14 5th August 2005, 10:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sueltraz

Alas...I am addicted to Half-Life 2. DAMN IT VALVE! Will you just port the damn thing to Linux and be done with it?

buy cedega...it's officially supported so just

# cedega setup.exe

next -> next -> next -> ok

and you can run hl2 on linux ^^

kosmosik · #15 5th August 2005, 11:10 AM

for RAD have you tired Borland Kylix? or pyqt with qt-designer? or pygtk with glade? there are some RAD options for Linux user for sure...

(I don't like basic)