Ok, so i've been trying for the last couple weeks to switch to linux. After more hours than i care to count of banging my head against the desk trying to get things to work, i'm calling it quits. In general, applications run much slower. I found it rare that anything just.. worked. I felt like i had to do a funny little dance and jump through several hoops just to get something to work that would have taken a simple double-click on windows. I tried mepis, mandriva, Xandos, and finally fedora. I know this forum is packed with nothing but pro-linux-anti-windows people who don't want to hear this but.. sorry guys, i think in this day and age we shouldn't have to use the command line on a daily basis. This extra security that everyone brags about is little more than requiring a password entry each and everytime you scratch your ass... and, well, because most of the computing world uses windows and thus the viruses/trojans/spyware authors will target that operating system primarily.
HOWEVER...
I did really enjoy the KDE feel and would love to run that environment under windows. I've done a little research and found CoLinux, but haven't installed it yet. If i don't intend to use the linux partition at all and only use it to port KDE to Windows, which distribution would you recommend? Are there any "how-to's" around that would assist me in getting the KDE desktop going in windows?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! And.. sorry for the above rant, but man.. i finally just shut down my linux machine after a day of frustration. I LOVE the open source mentality and wish I could get my system to perform better using linux, as i would love to ditch microsoft all-together. However, i won't give up performance and speed in order to do so..
Wednesday, June 5th 2024, 5:51pm
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