Matiesz

Well, I've been interested in Linux for quite sometime now, at least two year. I'm no guru or anything all I know has been through reading and asking questions on message boards. Fortunately for me, I've a friend who is doing right now a Baccalaureate degree in Information Technology (IT) so if I get really stuck I can always call him. Also I'd like to recommend Scott Granneman's Linux phrasebook. A good book written in the vernacular and without too much computer jargon and aimed at beginner.

Anyway, at university I use my Ubuntu laptop. I find that for what I do, there is no application I really miss. Taking notes or do presentation? there's openoffice. For easy sharing between my Linux laptop and my XP desktop? Samba's the key. Backup for essential university files? Flyback (and when use with Samba it's even better!) There's also a nice little app' called "Alexandria" for keeping a record of all the books I own (handy, since I'm a undergraduate in History and if there's one thing we do is reading books). Browsing the web? Firefox or Opera are solid alternative to IE.

If there is a point to all this (and there is...kind off :P ) it's that I found the switch from windows to linux not that hard and with a little determination you can setup your box with ease. Granted I use Ubuntu, and some gurus might think of it as a "watered down" linux, but meh, let 'em talk it matters not to me, it suits my needs and that's the only thing I care about.

Well said! It's true that the user's personality comes into it.

My mother, and despite the fact she used computer longer than me (hell, she was using MS-DOS before I was born), wouldn't even acknowledge the word ''Linux'' - she thinks it's way too much complicated and the terminal concept to be backward. It isn't right for her.

Personally I love tweaking, experimenting, and just messing around a computer. The mere thought of using an OS the way to company wanted it is repulsive to me. I also enjoy learning new stuff, so when I had achieve the most of my winXP and when I realised I could solve most problems without problem I said to myself '' Self, where's the fun in it? '' It was a year ago, and I switched into Linux (Ubuntu - whatever version was new back then). And beside the fact that Linux was an OS I didn't know anything about it.

Glorious day! Everything was new, foreign, complex, and most important - every damn aspect of the OS could be tweaked! It was paradise, of course I had my share of problem, incompatible libraries, wrong version, and the terminal! Oh how I feared thee terminal, it was blinking staring at me, almost wanting something.

Of course, I learned a lot, not just about Linux but about computers too. For example; in winXP when you pop in a DVD it just appears out of nowhere, or so it seemed. Of course Ubuntu does that too, but once ( and for reasons I still don't understand ) the damn DVD wouldn't ''pop'' - that's where I learned of the concept of mounting devices in an OS - and that a simple ''mount'' command in the terminal could resolve this - How joyful!. How glorious was the day I compile a software from source code for the first time. Right now I wouldn't trade Linux for anything and the world and every time I have to use winXP I instinctively search for the terminal.

But that's just me, other people with the same computer skills as I have wouldn't necessary enjoy all this - so long story short; personality is important - my mum may have had more year of experiences with computers, however she lacks my love for problem solving and testing things out.

It's like Konami's past effort to make adds on tombstone, only they didn't do it. That's pretty...weird, and lame. Beheading a goat? Wtf?

Just, why?

More like: Dr. StrangeSquare; Or how I stop worrying our PS3 is freakin' expsensive and love cheap remakes.

Isn't this like the Xth remake of the original game? Famicon (Jap Nes) original
MSX computer (Some kind of Jap compy of the 80s)
PsONE
Wonderswam Colour
GBA
and now PSP?

I mean come one let the game rest in peace dammit!

Didn't Double Dragon had a similar Co-op? Like, You pressed start and POOF the second player jumped in. So yeah «revolutionary»...