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    I'm tired of XP and I hate Vista. What are my alternatives?

    Discussion in 'LG' started by bo3adsa, Jan 6, 2008.

  1. bo3adsa

    bo3adsa Notebook Consultant

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    I'm thinking of trying Linux after reading a lot about it, I already allocated 40GB on my hhd for it and since I never had any experience with it I'm afraid it might not work with our S1 and end up losing my data stored on my XP …

    Is there any one tried different OS on S1 beside Vista & XP?



    **Using LG S1, 2.0 dule2, 160GB hhd, 1GB ram. XP pro…
     
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    Dana Notebook Consultant

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    switch to macs! they're really great, the switch is effortless if you have a portable hardrive!
     
    Dana, Jan 6, 2008
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    bo3adsa Notebook Consultant

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    i thought about it but i dont wana pay for mac in case i didnt like it...
    is there a way to try it with paying for the license?
     
    bo3adsa, Jan 6, 2008
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    Ubuntu 7.10
     
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    bo3adsa Notebook Consultant

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    i download it and gave it a try but i dont know where to get the drivers for S1 ?

    BTW do i need antiviruse and firewall and other security programes when using linux or mac?
     
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    skywalker Business Notebook FTW!!

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    Yeah, Gutsy Gibon comes to mind ^_^
    I have used Ubuntu 7.10 for about 10 months and I don't need any security softwares on it.
     
    skywalker, Jan 7, 2008
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    I think you should add a yet before the last dot. Well anyway, have fun playing wif ubuntu... As for the drivers, the aren't any specific LG drivers to it. Any will do.. if u can find them...
     
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    scooberdoober Penguins FTW!

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    Fedora Core is working well with many noteboks.
     
    scooberdoober, Jan 7, 2008
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    There are a few distros that are great for laptops, Mandriva 2008 and Mint 4.0 come to mind.
    My question is do you want to learn another OS, or are you like most people who want to have little to no learning curve? If you aren't into learning, you'll be back on Vista or XP in a week, maybe less.
     
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    bo3adsa Notebook Consultant

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    Thank everybody for the input :)

    I tried Ubuntu 7.10 for few hours and I was lazy to search for drivers – maybe later-
    I thought the appearance will be similar to xp but I was wrong it look so primitive (not sure about the translation) but you get the picture.

    I'm downloading mac os –don’t ask how- and I will give it a try. Based on my friend experience he's strongly pushing me to test mac os and assuring me that once I try it I will never go back to windows …





    Good point,
    the main reason I'm thinking of changing from xp is to know that I have the option to choose instead to be force with a specific os when I bought my laptop, to experience new things and have some knowledge about them, and finally I'm tired of wasting huge amount of my laptop resources on security programs knowing that other os don’t use them. Yet :p
     
    bo3adsa, Jan 8, 2008
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