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Lawliet · 06-28-2009, 12:12 AM

To answer the OP... I've known a lot of "normal" people to have Linux installed for them or they've bought computers with it pre-installed.

In my opinion - much like Firefox - Linux is good in its own way, but it gets overhyped and overrated. Gentoo on my PC, Debian on my PC and Yellow Dog on my PS3 all take MUCH longer than Windows to boot. Yes it crashes. "Out-of-the-box" Debian crashes my PC every hour without fail. "30 minute install on old hardware"? Try 4 days getting Gentoo and GNOME compiled on a 400Mhz CPU.

I guess it really comes down to what you're comfortable with.

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Lawliet Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 78	To answer the OP... I've known a lot of "normal" people to have Linux installed for them or they've bought computers with it pre-installed. In my opinion - much like Firefox - Linux is good in its own way, but it gets overhyped and overrated. Gentoo on my PC, Debian on my PC and Yellow Dog on my PS3 all take MUCH longer than Windows to boot. Yes it crashes. "Out-of-the-box" Debian crashes my PC every hour without fail. "30 minute install on old hardware"? Try 4 days getting Gentoo and GNOME compiled on a 400Mhz CPU. I guess it really comes down to what you're comfortable with. Last edited by Lawliet; 06-28-2009 at 12:20 AM.