Come on dude, you know you want to rant about MS. Let it fly!
Its just that...um...it isnt you who are being updated, it's Microsoft (et al).
Come on dude, you know you want to rant about MS. Let it fly!
If all you're doing with it is word processing and light web surfing, why not destroy Windows and go full Linux?
I really need to get on this as I'm hating the MS set up on this thing. I can't stand IE as a browser and I find Bing to suck donkey balls as a search engine (haven't used that term since the 90's). As it is this thing does not have Office so what I am contemplating is installing Google Chrome as my browser and installing Linus Office. I figure this might be easier than wiping the entire drive and installing the full Linux experience. What do you folks think?
I am going to commit sacrilege here, but I think you should be going for a dual boot system using Windows 7 and Linux Mint. You can always fall back to Windows when you just want to be there. In Linux, LibreOffice can do everything MS Office does. They have a one-for-one replacement for every MS Office program, including Project and Access. These programs even save to the Office formats, and you can set it to save that way by default. With minor tweaks (adding the Microsoft Fonts and tweaking the UI), you can exactly duplicate the functionality of Office. Outlook's replacement is Evolution Mail. I use it exclusively for Mail now, and it connects with every mail service, with full syncing and all the features you get with Outlook including calendaring, sending invitations, reminders and offline processing.
So you don't think I should just add LibreOffice? Wouldn't that be easier? I'm not sure how I'd even go about changing Windows 8 to 7.
BTW, I'm confused as to exactly where I should be downloading the Linux stuff from. Got a good link for LibreOffice? I'm afraid to just pick one from the search list. (I'm also afraid of spiders but this phobia doesn't extend to Spiderman, go figure. )
Hey Overmind et al., got a few questions.
I basically got a free barebones computer from my dept. I'm looking to install a Linux based Fedora spin, namely this one:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Packages_List
as my OS cause of the existing packages it will include.
So my questions are this:
What kind of virus protection softwares would I need, if any? Are there free ones?
I really like Visual Studio's user interface and layout for coding work. Is there any equivalent thing in Linux? Could I just download visual studio and run it in linux? I really don't want to use Vim or some other text editor for coding stuff. I prefer the real-time error checking that visual studio does. I'm not gonna do hardcore programming but like visual studio though.
I'm gonna do the dual boot thing, but I don't want to have to switch to windows to do coding every time. I'd rather just do it on Linux itself.
Hey Overmind et al., got a few questions.
I basically got a free barebones computer from my dept. I'm looking to install a Linux based Fedora spin, namely this one:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Packages_List
as my OS cause of the existing packages it will include.
So my questions are this:
What kind of virus protection softwares would I need, if any? Are there free ones?
I really like Visual Studio's user interface and layout for coding work. Is there any equivalent thing in Linux? Could I just download visual studio and run it in linux? I really don't want to use Vim or some other text editor for coding stuff. I prefer the real-time error checking that visual studio does. I'm not gonna do hardcore programming but like visual studio though.
I'm gonna do the dual boot thing, but I don't want to have to switch to windows to do coding every time. I'd rather just do it on Linux itself.