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runningbird · 06-27-2009, 04:31 AM

Forgive the term "normal"; I mean, do people use linux who are not complete open source software fanatics? I actually only have linux on my computer myself, but I do not know how to do anything; I can't install any programs, mainly. It has some great features like the ftp, instant message, and bittorrent clients are integrately really well. It loads really quickly.

But then I will look up how to install a program, and some guy in a linux forum enthusiastically writes out 20 lines of code, saying that the installation doesn't work for all programs, but hey, it works for some! I mean come on, all I wanted to do was install the penguin game.

I realize there are some linux distributions where you don't need to know anything, like Linux Mint and Ubuntu, but these are very slow in my experience and are more or less Windows clones.

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runningbird Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 532	Do any normal people use linux? Forgive the term "normal"; I mean, do people use linux who are not complete open source software fanatics? I actually only have linux on my computer myself, but I do not know how to do anything; I can't install any programs, mainly. It has some great features like the ftp, instant message, and bittorrent clients are integrately really well. It loads really quickly. But then I will look up how to install a program, and some guy in a linux forum enthusiastically writes out 20 lines of code, saying that the installation doesn't work for all programs, but hey, it works for some! I mean come on, all I wanted to do was install the penguin game. I realize there are some linux distributions where you don't need to know anything, like Linux Mint and Ubuntu, but these are very slow in my experience and are more or less Windows clones.