Novell Linux, Mac, PC
These Linux, Mac & PC ads are great!
Novell Marketing Video for Linux playing on the popular Mac vs PC videos. What is Linux? See: en.wikipedia.org Some points for Linux off the top of my head: – Free (as in speech). I have the freedom to tweak the system as I wish. – DRM Free – Superior method of software updates, installation – Solid stability (servers I run have been up for 1+yrs, my desktop 1+ month) – Can scale down to very old/obscure hardware (I have a Linux file server running an old 266, 24MB ram – Virtually Spyware/Virus free – Variety of system tools not available in Windows. Extensive programming interface. – Very cool eye-candy ahead of other Operating systems. Youtube search “compiz”, see the upcoming KDE, see the current version of Gnome. – I know exactly what my computer is doing. Can’t say the same thing with Windows, OS X – Although I agree gaming is lacking, I personally don’t game on PC but what I do see is the amazing benefit of being able to have access to the thousands of OSS packages out there. – Luxury of using technology backed up by contributions and usage by companies such as IBM, HP, Sun, Google, many governments, military orgs, NASA, universities, super computer research. Outside the desktop Windows presence is not the greatest. – Constant updates to all my software. You can choose to run cutting edge or run stable. – Ability to decide what to install and what not to (can’t say the same thing about XP) – Freedom of not depending on one single vendor. I know my needs will not be …
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@ureloaded or sound and video processing are designed for Windows. Maybe it’s a bitter truth that PC IT industry became one of the greatest markets, and while it wants desperately to continue to be such, it needs the Win. How could sell the new 4cores / 8 cores CPUs, if Win7 or Win8 wouldn’t require more CPU power, or how they could sell the new GPUs if Crysis wasn’t there? We will live many years accompanied with this x86 architecture and the Win, just because this market needs them.
PC – Awesome
Apple Mac – Awesome
Linux = PC + Mac – Just as awesome although some are free.
So Linux is not better, it’s just like any other. For the price though, it’s great. If you can squeeze some money out of you wallet, get an Apple Mac. Risk it and want to use the most fun, with the risk of viruses, get a PC.
Me myself, I choose PC
if games were made open gl or linux could find a way to use dx i would use it hands down
I can’t see why anyone would buy a mac (nice hardware, nice software) and then replace snow leopard with linux.. make no sense
@silentpoet1988
unfortunately, only xbox and pc uses dx, everything else uses opengl. now that opengl 4.0 is released, i’m hoping we can expect some more games that use gl instead of dx. linux isn’t really meant for gaming. if gaming is the only reason you’re not using it, just do what i do – dual boot. my windows setup is strictly designed for games only and nothing else. i do everything else in linux, and i don’t have wine installed
lol @ linux users
@hrbear dude i am a very serious PC user, i use it for making songs, videos, my work, games, managing money etc, and i accept that Linus is better than Windows, its just a fact, but a wish mac users would shut up about mac os. I got no problem with it but it is no better than Windows at all.
When it comes down to it
Easy to use with little freedom- Mac
A little hard to use with more freedom- Windows
Very hard to use with total freedom- Linux
@loconet You mean the ELF binary format?
I would say no and a BIG No.
But of course see what the others have to say because just because I have never been able to run an ELF binary in windows doesn’t mean it isn’t possible.
I believe ELF binary files are executables for linux not windows.
@schmidtbag Yeah I second duel booting for games.
I have tried the wine emulator and let me be honest, It needs work.
It is very unstable and only works with about 1/4 of the windows games.
However I can’t complain though most of it is guesswork because as we all know, windows is not open source.
@7pulford Yeah if you are going to buy a mac then use the mac OS.
If you want to use Linux then don’t go out and buy a mac but get a standard PC.
Its like you are buying something and then throwing it away.
@autonomous2010
the /s at the end means sarcasm
– it was a reply to another person saying Linux can’t run .exe
But why would you run Linux? People like it for like a couple of months rave then ditch and never use again.. xD
@H3Vtux
god…
you have spoken through this man :3
jejej
real good explanation
look i know theres an arguments between mac vs pc but i think both sides can agree with one thing and thats that linux sucks royal dick.
I think they are also saying mac users are gay.
Agree for a pc user to switch to mac…
but theres no reason for a mac user…
@thankqwerty PC users aren’t even gay, they’re useless
@loconet Some people are stupid! Of Course linux can run .exe files. Linux can run anything on any peace of hard ware! You just have to know how to code your own programs and install complex Wine applications and know how to code a driver. Easy right? Linux is so easy to use! Its the best!
Its why so many people use it!
i love linux
What a joke…
linux sucks
@BoyPocketsJr: Wine is hardly complex … Photoshop runs with wine easily! forn the rest there are brilliant Linux applications out