switching to Linux
 

why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7QraljRfM
thats why
plus it has no registry <3

Linux FTW

Its free too, no viruses

that looks awesome!!! is their like a min. processor speed needed to use it? and where can i get more info on it?

Linux will run fine on a rather basic system, but to get the fancy visual effects shown in the video you will need a decent video card. I think Beryl requires a GeForce 3 or 4 (or equivalent) video card. Many older computers with on-board graphics won't be able to handle all the visual effects you see in the video.

http://www.beryl-project.org/

- Justin

ive heard about beryl but never seen it in action, pretty cool, i might have to switch over from KDE :) i gotta get kubuntu installed on my machine again

i'm in the process now setting it up on my Fedora machine, i'll let ya know how it works with fedora if anyone uses it

It being free has no correlation to people programming viruses for it.

I run slackware on most of my machines at home since they are "give aways" and windows would just bog them down. Never mind the fact that it's just a good system to learn. Kind of like driving stick, everyone should at least know how :)

haha true. i started off on RH 6.2 and FreeBSD like 4.0 or somethin, and i been through slackware, suse, and mandrake, also tried some smaller ones, like TurboLinux and Tinytux, to name some.

now if i install it, will all my programs get deleted off my comp?? or will they just carry over??

depends on how you do it. if you do it the easy way everything will get erased. but there is a way that you can save everything but its complicated

Since I'm assuming you currently have a windows machine, you would either have to format your drive and start over from scratch, or install linux on another partition of your current hard drive (or just another hard drive in general). If you take the second option, you can do a dual-boot, meaning you have windows and linux both installed on the same computer, and when you turn it on, you choose which one you want to run.

- Justin

He probably just has one giant partition for NTFS. If you really want to do this you're going to need to find / buy a partitioning program that doesn't annihilate everything it resizes.

Probably....i think i have a copy of partion magic 8 laying around somewhere. I haven't used that in ages.

- Justin

yeah i use PM8 also and it does a good job of resizing NTFS partitions. i have ran into a few programs that just don't know how to properly resize a NTFS partition. but yeah set like a 10-15gig partition from your free space then install linux on that.

External HDs FTW