I’ve been forced onto a 4-or-so-year-old laptop. It’s decent enough, but battles with the behemoth that is Windows. I’ve spent this arvo looking into Linux… very confusing! It actually looks pretty good, but it will never take off as long as there are more versions than there are types of toothbrush.
My biggest concerns are:
- Which one? So many choices!
- Usability – will I be able to work out how to use it?
- Microsoft Office – since I already own the 2007 version, I’d like to use it. Can’t work out if I would be able to under Linux.
- iTunes – since me and my iPod are pretty tight, y’know?
- Networking – pretty important to be able to get onto the uni network. Almost as important is our home internet. I’m scared Linux will cause problems.
Have you played around with Linux? Any advice/help would be much appreciated!
i think you’d be better putting windows 98 on it
what happened to your other lappy?
linux needs open office which is fine, it will work with office 2003 and 2007. a good choice for a linux noob would be ubuntu or debian
you can get itunes running with a software emulator called wine that is made for linux. the networking should be ok, maybe ask the uni tech guys if it can be set up though before you install linux.
You should be able to work most of it out once you have it set up, kinda just moving from a pc to a mac, things are in diff places but you’ll get use to it eventually.
keep an eye on vk.com its reawaking
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Get ubuntu, it already comes preinstalled with all the free unix version of most Windows stuff.
Thanks for your advice, I’ll have a crack at it this weekend.