Hello,<br><br>I thought I would take this opportunity to give my opinion. I too am a new linux user, and would prefer to exclusively use linux as my OS. However, because of the learning curve I'm going through, and some proprietary applications that run on Windows, I continue to dual boot.
<br><br>My style of learning is very effective with the "hands on approach", and while I tried learning via book, I typically find myself in a situation not covered by the book. I can understand why some newer users abandons linux upon their first problem, but I personally find it rewarding to learn how to overcome the problem.
<br><br>Living in the St. Cloud area, I tried to contact the SCLUG, but it appears they are not currently active. Therefore, I recently joined the TCLUG mailing list, and would like to participate in events hosted by TCLUG, especially an install fest.
<br><br>Have a great day!<br><br>Troy<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">MIM</b> <<a href="mailto:al7amdlellah@yahoo.com">al7amdlellah@yahoo.com
</a>><br>Date: Sep 19, 2007 8:24 AM<br>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Crash<br>To: <a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br><br></span>I would like to agree and disagree with Jeremy. I agree that Linux crash less and that it is much more stable than Windows. I disagree on the easiness of some actions and of corrective measures. The reason is that windows is GUI while Linux, is more command line (which I see great if I get to know how :)). For example, to mount a drive you need to know the command and the options (I know most of it now but keep forgetting it as I do not use it often) also when I get a program source code and I am stuck during linking and compiling. I know it is simple for you guys, but for someone switching and really eager to switch (I even bought Zaurus PDA as it is Linux pda :) :)).
<br><br>I think a hands on for Linux will be great. I can get books but experience is better. And as many of you guys have Linux machine as their main machine, you have gone through a lot. I would love to be like you and completely migrate to Linux.
<br><br>By the way, I was playing around with Trixbox and I
updated it beyond repair :) :). I mean, when updated, zaptel is not working anymore. It can be as simple as changing a line in a config file, but that is the kind of problems newbies fall into :) :).<br><br>Please consider Hands On Series.
<br><br>p.s.<br>I would love at some point to learn how to charge and fine tune my linux box too :) <br><br>p.s.<br>Most of the crashes that happened to me were self inflected, meaning playing around too much and causing damage as I try. And also I was unable to migrate Linux another computer
<br><b><i></i></b><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:22:19 -0500<br>From: Jeremy
<br>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Crash<br>To: <a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:200709181622.19318.tclug@lizakowski.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
200709181622.19318.tclug@lizakowski.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<span class="q"><br><br>> Personally, I have been on and off with linux for 2<br>> reasons 1) Not knowing how to recover a crash (steps and what so ...) 2)
<br>> Not being able to move it to new hard drive or change partition size<br>> without messing up the system.<br><br>Windows and Linux are the same. If windows crashes, you boot from a rescue <br>disk, migrate data. and reinstall. It's the same for Linux.
<br><br>There are some advanced things you can do to get fancy with Linux and avoid <br>reinstall, things which I imagine are not easily possible on windows. Those <br>are a bonus, not a drawback.<br><br>> Think it over and I think more people will get interested in Linux as it
<br>> comes clear how to solve some basic but serious problems. <br><br>In my experience, it's
the other way around. I see crashes less often with <br>Linux. When using windows, I'm also always surprised how they demand reboots <br>all the time whenever they install something or update software in the <br>background. It very difficult to accomplish tasks on Windows that take more
<br>than a few days, with all the reboots. My Linux boxes are usually up for <br>months at a time, and go down only for lightning storms and major upgrades.<br><br>If there are Linux adoption issues, I think it's partly because windows ships
<br>by default on pretty much every PC. If Linux shipped by default, and you had <br>to buy windows CDs and install them yourself, the tables would be
turned.<br><br>Jeremy<br><br></span></blockquote><span class="ad"><br><p>
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