Charles raises a good question. If you use any special applications, especially games or
things like that, then it is more difficult to switch to Linux.
If you are doing "ordinary" things:
- email
- web
- simple office documents, including Word and Excel from other people as long as
the files do not use the latest and fanciest features
or if you are doing anything with programming,
then Linux is great.
There is a further consideration: Linux offers a big variety of user-interfaces. That is
one of its intentions. Some "look" like Windows e.g., KDE. Others are lean and mean -- I
like Crunch-Bang Linux (abbreviated !#), which is very fast and lightweight. It runs
nicely on a very old machine with only 2GB of hard drive. There is also Ubuntu/Unity and
Linux Mint. All very good for what they do, but different in appearance (the chassis and
engine are the same).
I can provide disks for the distros mentioned, but installation should be discussed first.
JN
On 07/15/2012 06:01 PM, Charles MacDonald wrote:
> On 12-07-15 02:10 PM, Dale Bennett wrote:
>
>> i read that i might be able to get a dvd mailed to me with the Linux
>> operating system on it so i can then put it on my computer.
>>
>> i would burn my own but i can not afford to buy the writable dvds. plus its
>> way over my head how to load the OS to my computer just from online with
>> out a dvd.
>
> What sort of Computer are you using now? Are you using any "special"
> software as Linux uses different application programs
>