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    itunes EMI deal

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    Yeah don't even waste your time with iTunes - just buy the CD. And if you're so concerned with DRM... well perhaps you should buy from different labels to begin with. Andavari knows what I'm talking about!

    Linux

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    Ubuntu Linux is a NIGHTMARE if you dual boot with Vista preinstalled. The partition resizer I found out was incompatible with the NTFS system and the new BOOT system.

    Ubuntu is really clean and I feel like I'm on a Mac. I used it fine just like Windows. Firefox, Opera worked etc, Open Office is on it, has open source media players etc, and is much, much less bloated than Vista.

     

    However:

    The Linux "community" has fanboys that used car salesmen would admire. They conveniently leave out the countless commands that users will eventually have to enter.

    It is not as simple as Windows or OSX at all. You ever look in the forums....90% of all Windows/Mac users will be scared off by the crap some people go through in Linux. Not that it's bad...just we aren't used to working in a terminal ;) I am turned off by it now because it is still a flavor of Unix.

    The partition resizer is incompatible with NTFS? Really? So when I installed Ubuntu this morning and decided to resize my Windows partition it lied to me? Please double check your "facts" before you get so bold with them.

     

    I'm pretty far from a fanboy, but some of the things that people come up with the condemn Linux are ludicrous. For example, when you mentioned that you're turned off by Linux by stating that it's a flavor of Unix... .... on the basis that you have to use the terminal.... I use the terminal in Windows all the time. Windows then must be a flavor of Unix, at least by your standards. Did you know that Mac OS X is a flavor of UNIX? It's true.

     

    My mom uses Xubuntu. She doesn't have to do anything in the terminal.

     

    Oh, and this being said, I'm not really trying to come off as mean, but you said so many things so boldly without any actual basis.

    Linux

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    All I'm saying is, linux will never find appeal to the general audience if you have to do things in the command line to make it work.

    I was just joking about the nerd thing... I thought it was obvious in what I wrote, but maybe not.

     

    I heard that the new OS would be released 2 years later as well, but then when I saw interviews where MS officials were asked about it, they sort of blew that off. Maybe vista is a transition OS(wouldn't be the first time MS did that), but it doesn't seem likely.

    You don't have to do anything via command line. The automatic updates are streamlined - Applications - > System -> Check for Updates....

     

    It'll even update Firefox, Thunderbird, and ask about any of you other applications like Wine, Amarok (I don't use KDE so I don't have this app) and the like. Gaim comes preinstalled, and using the package manager, you can search for other IM programs, other IRC programs, games, media applications, imaging applications, and anything else :).

     

    If you're curious about the OS, find an older machine, and get Xubuntu. I'm running it on a 1.2GHz Pentium 4 with 128MB of PC2700 RAM, and it runs like a champ! Or if you're really a performance geek, you can look for a window manager like Fluxbox or Blackbox.

     

    There's a lot of cool things in the *nix world.

    just 1 album

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    I think calling the Beatles as the greatest is kind of a misnomer. It really wasn't that their music was so godly great, but that it was something terrifically new, and there wasn't this great dissension of tastes.

     

    But yeah, they're pretty great :).

    Linux

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    There isn't any NTFS support natively, I do believe. You have to download a few packages, though to be honest I'm not sure what they are. If you're dual booting with multiple hard drives, you'll need to mount them before you can even see them.

    Linux

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    I just tired Ubuntu via the Live CD option and I was impressed! Not impressed enough to format WinXP off my current system since it doesn't work with my soundcard although it detected it perfectly find, and since my display resolution isn't selectable above 1024x768. Also I don't want to learn a new OS virtually overnight on my main system.

     

    I will however most likely be installing Ubuntu on my old system that currently has Win98 on it, because that system desperately needs something more modern.

    If you install the OS, you can update your drivers, which will fix your resolution issues. The soundcard may require a little more work. The documentation for Linux (Gentoo in particular, Ubuntu too though) is amazing.

    just 1 album

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    Right now, it's Dark Suns - Swanlike, but it could easily be any of these:

     

    Windir - Likferd

    Opeth - Ghost Reveries

    Disillusion - Back to the times of Splendor

    Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy

    Anathema - Judgement

    Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain

    Monolithe - Monolithe II

    Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory Pt. II

     

    rridgely, if you're looking to get into the metal scene, I could come up with some good starter reccomendations :). Black Metal, Death Metal, and anything else is generally too cacophonous for most people to enjoy.

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