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Originally Posted by Emil (Post 18784695)

http://zorin-os.com/ - Linux made to look as much as Windows as possible.

Not going to lie.. I'm running this now in a vm and am pretty impressed.

I normally stick with Linux Mint Debian - I mean, what's not to love about the Mint menu running on top of the best linux distro ever made? - but I'm going to give this a try for a while.

I paid the 10 euro for the ultimate version, and need to make a bunch of system tweaks before I can give a solid opinion on performance; but so far it's pretty nice.

Probably something I'd definitely recommend to novice users...

And I like the fact that it still maintains the freedom of linux - free as in beer - yes, they have 'premium' versions but they're so low cost it doesn't matter... and from the looks of it, those versions are no different than the 'free' version aside from the additional software that comes pre-installed.

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Originally Posted by CS-Jay (Post 18785222)

Imagine if you could get your parents, aunts, uncles or anyone a bit older on a linux distro. You wouldn't have to spend every visit to their house uninstalling spyware, or installing anti-virus. If all they need it for is email and music, so simple.

I've been doing a lot of that. For people who aren't sure which version of Windows they have that's screwed up, they don't know the difference been being upgraded to Win7 and being upgraded to Mint. Firefox still works the same. Mainly they just notice it's faster, partly because they know longer have heavy anti-virus dlowing the net down. With distros like Mint or the way I set up CentOS for them, it just works and they are happy. I just have to show them where OpenOffice is. :)

Geeks who like to really understand and have full control like Linux, too. They ones who don't so much are the Windows experts who know all of the shortcut keys, but don't want to learn something new. Them and the gamers.

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Originally Posted by ArsewithClass (Post 18785528)

You said I didn't know what linux was... that's incorrect isn't it!?

No. You don't have a clue what it is.

Explain in your own words what Linux is Gary.

I will give you a fiver if you manage it.

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Originally Posted by vdbucks (Post 18785839)

Yeah, you definitely need a good system to run a desktop based virtual machine.

I'm currently running on an Asus Z8NA-D6C with 2x Intel Xeon e5620's and naturally vbox runs 100x more smoothly on this machine than on my amd gaming desktop ><

This isn't to say you can't or shouldn't run a vm on a 'standard' desktop pc.. because it's still a great way to get used to working strictly in a linux environment; as opposed to trying to learn the ropes from a live cd or live usb.

Yeah you're right...I was just amazed because my i5 2500k smokes my old xeon in pretty much every task...but when it comes to virtualbox it sucks :(.

Ran the updates and everything failed. Mouse moves in slow motion, wireless stopped working, and more...

This thread is great. It really lets the GFY idiots stand out

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Originally Posted by anexsia (Post 18788292)

Yeah you're right...I was just amazed because my i5 2500k smokes my old xeon in pretty much every task...but when it comes to virtualbox it sucks :(.

Make sure virtualization is enabled in the BIOS. The hardware support for virtualization makes a big difference.