No more Windows!!!

codedmart · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject: No more Windows!!!

I am in the final stages of finishing my re-install of Gentoo. I got rid of Windows and am very excited. Just wanted to share the excitement. The Gentoo docs are great and so is everyone on this forum. Thank you to everyone.

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nonotme · Guru Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 356 Location: on.ca

ah, that first taste of true freedom

nothing like a windows-free enviroment, congrats!
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Tii · l33t Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 733

I just recently did the same and I have to say that I haven't regretted for 1 second. :mrgreen:

krdp · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 3:46 pm Post subject:

I have been running windows free for quite sometime now on my main box, but my laptop still runs XP.....I think I should change that soon

|cJ| · n00b Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 37 Location: UK

i went windows only yesterday

i was previously running a duel boot system but only for games

life with windows was a prison sentence...

Professor Frink · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject:

If only I could play all those sweet sweet Windowx DirectX games in Linux I would be windows free....
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UclaBob · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 83

My laptop which I do all of my "real" work on is Gentoo only. My desktop which is more for gaming and multimedia is XP only.

*shrug* It suits me well enough.

Bob

madchaz · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 7:45 pm Post subject:

About the only reason I still have windows is to burn CDs, play games and transfer files to/from my xbox. For some reason, konkeror doesn't like my xbox, lol
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fwerner · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject:

i went to gentoo two years ago (my first real linux distro - before i just read many stuff and had a small contact with SuSE 4.3).

i switched totally a month later because i hated to take care of all those spy-ware....

a little bit funny: i am still a windows only programmer and a linux-only admin (even at work) :-)

sometimes i get a little bit confused...

greetz

say goodby to that win crap: imho its heaven for coders but hell for users

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

I completely switched a while back. I officially went Linux-only with Mandrake, but shortly afterwards I went with Gentoo. So from the get-go I was Windows-free with Gentoo.

I really don't know why you can't burn CDs in Linux. Heck, I just burned a DVD today. :wink:

AGM · Apprentice Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 171

It seems like the main-reason for the people to keep windows is for gaming.

My Tip: Get a GameCube (or some other console) :wink:

|cJ| · n00b Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 37 Location: UK

Without gaming Windows really has NOTHING for me

I want to stay off the games for a while and learn html and python so gentoo only is the way forward for me!

dhurt · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 7:53 am Post subject:

Finally got rid of my windows desktop as well. I had 5 years of email in outlook and was waiting for a way to convert it over which came with Mozilla Thunderbird. Now 100% M$ Free. My laptop has been Linux since I got it 3 years ago and runs great

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Keffin · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 6:26 pm Post subject:

The day the SiS650 drivers allow hardware acceleration (if you can really call it that with a SiS650

) XP will die a horrible death.
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andrewy · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 602

I never understood why people keep Windows around to play games.
Just don't play the games that don't have native ports or don't work with Wine(X), not a big deal, IMHO.

Edweirdo · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 2:44 pm Post subject:

geordie · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 3:29 pm Post subject:

Hi,
I have to keep 'doze on a dual boot system for video but when mainactor
stops crashing on export it'll be gentoo only
regards
geordie

Nefarius · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 48 Location: Graz, Austria

My computer decided itself to get rid of windows ;))
Unfortunately by heating the windows-disk too much thru 10 reboot-free Linux days that the first Win-boot after that ten days (needed to check something winonly) was awfully slow and the reboot failed due to corrupted MBR/partition tables. Now I'm searching for tools to recover the 2nd partition (recovering C:\ wouldn't be a problem with testdisk) on the Win-disk which still holds not sensitive but for me very important data (old websites I've done, literally thousands of photos...). Maybe someone knows some appropriate tools on Win for doing this. Luckily I still have an old 3Gig disk somewhere to set up Win and use "native" ntfs tools for the job...
Anyway...
But at least I could have fried an egg on the disk (though I didn't)
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t_2199 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 146

I kept my windows for playing DirectX games and for a nice Winamp.

Winamp owns XMMS...

DEaigo · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:05 am Post subject:

well i have windows for games but i would like to get a fast system dual 64's to load gentoo on and run winex to play them.

Anyone knoe hoe to make winex faster on my 512 ram 2700+ system

dalek · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:36 am Post subject:

I never had windoze. It sucks though. My brother has XP. I HATE that IE thing. NO tabs. Bill Gates you wiener. How you spell that anyway?

Glad you got rid of that thorn in the side.

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uglyb0b · Apprentice Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 280

Good, dual booting is for lamers unless you make money from it (development for windows)
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Fly3D · n00b Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 24 Location: Canada

Linux for me (as a workstation, home desktop system) started as a bit of an experiment in how usable it would be in the real world. Several years ago I ran Mandrake (v.5 something I think) for a short time and I've also administered several headless Linux/Unix servers, but my experience had me under the impression that Linux still had a long way to go on the desktop. One day I just got fed up with being told by my OS how I could/should use my system, and sick of M$ propaganda (not to mention the frequent lock-ups, crashes, viruses, trojans, etc.) So, in a fit of rebellion I partitioned off half my HD and installed Slackware. Never looked back and my Windows partition has been steadily shrinking ever since. Now I do 95% of my work in Linux (as of a couple of weeks ago Gentoo and loving it

). I've also helped convert several friends over to Linux at home (one of whom is an MCSE).

I'm currently working on a project which unfortunately is Windows only (3ds Max and Director). Everytime I boot into Windows I get this sick feeling in my stomach and within an hour or so I have a headache. I guess Linux has spoiled me and I forget how unstable Windows really is. It seems you can't run several memory intensive apps concurrently and expect it to hold up. In Linux I can have multiple compiles going on, music playing, web browsers open, Gimp, and be playing Tuxracer (although a little slower than normal) all at once without so much as a hint at crashing. In the last year I think I've managed to lock up X twice (no reboot involved, just restart the service). Once this project is done with in a few weeks, I think I will free up another 10GB for Linux :lol:

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wbsoft · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:41 pm Post subject:

congratulations! :-)

UncleRage · n00b Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Western NY