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HyperHacker

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I'm seriously considering moving to Linux as my primary OS, but I have no idea which to choose. The big problem is I don't really like Unix in general. Having to do everything manually, not taking the extra 2 seconds to use such convenient things as file extensions and partition type identifiers, having a different, akward installation method for every distro, not warning me about doing something dangerous or stupid, etc...
People praise Linux because it's not Windows, but Windows is mostly what I want. Easy to use, but lets me do nearly anything, and works well (when it works at all); EG if I add some hardware, I don't have to spend all day recompiling my kernel and basically reinstalling the OS for it only to find out it's not supported; it just looks for drivers online and sets it up for me. In short, I love Windows' design... just not the poor implementation. I mean if XP was far less buggy and bloated, not made by MS, and let me do whatever the hell I wanted even if it's likely to wreck something (eg deleting files that are in use, but still warning me) it'd be damn near perfect.
Problem is Windows is expensive, buggy as hell, and made by a company I wouldn't trust with the time of day. XP is already bloated and buggy and from what I've seen of Vista it's just going to be XP with ten times the bloat, twenty times the bugs, and riddled with DRM. No way I'm getting that. So that leaves me with two choices: Use Linux or stick with XP even when it's horribly out of date. (Mac is not an option because I'm not buying a whole new computer, and running Mac OS on a PC is just asking for problems.)

I've hardly used Linux at all before. I installed Mandrake but didn't care for it (and it was also pretty buggy) and never really used it. I tried Gentoo and didn't manage to get it to boot. What I'm really looking for is the open-source equivilant of Windows XP, minus the bugs. (I know of ReactOS but last I checked it's nowhere near complete enough to be useable. I'll probably try it anyway though.)

I intend to keep XP installed as a dual boot but I want to use Linux for the majority of things, ideally only switching to Windows to see how my programs run there or run programs not available in Linux. That means I want to be able to do just about everything I can in Windows, especially developing software that can run in Windows since that's pretty much what I do all day*. Emulation is also important since I do a lot of ROM hacking too, and I hear there's very little available in the field of Linux emulators. Other important things include NTFS access without mucking up my data (as I'd rather not have to convert everything to EXT2 given there's no good EXT3 drivers for Windows), sharing files on the network (prefferably accessible from Windows machines), and supporting two monitors (both on one video card; one on a standard VGA port and one using a DVI-VGA adapter) acting as one large screen. And of course it has to be reliable and fast. (Mandrake was worrysome... only supported 1024x768 and crashed frequently. ) This doesn't just mean not crashing at random, but also not corrupting my files or having a lot of annoying little bugs like Windows.
I already know of and use many free programs available on Linux such as VLC, Gaim and lololol, so finding software for most tasks shouldn't be a problem. It's those few remaining tasks that worry me. I can compile other peoples' code, but I've never had much luck doing it. I always have to make signifigant changes for one reason or another (in many cases just plain bad code) to get it working, which is difficult. (It doesn't help either that every piece of software I see these days that isn't written with Visual Studio uses a Unix-style makefile, which I have no experience with; I use batch scripts to compile my programs.)

I've become quite accustomed to Textpad with its huge list of features and customizeable hotkeys. I'd really like to find something similar for Linux. I don't know how I ever lived without auto-indent, a clipbook, hotkeys to indent/outdent and move quickly between bookmarks and matching brackets in code, and a search/replace function that accepts regular expressions. Customization in general is pretty important to me.

I've heard good things about Ubuntu but it sounds more like it's designed for people who have no idea how to use a computer than people who know computers but don't know Linux. Does it still offer all the power and flexibility of other distros for those who know how to use it?

*This is probably my biggest concern. Most of what I do is design software. If I move to Linux I'll have to learn how to do everything there that I already know how to do in Windows. And since Windows is still dominant, I don't want to drop support for it (I know you'd all hate me if I released a Mario Kart 64 editor for Linux only), especially since I already have a number of Windows apps in development. So I'd have to write programs that run on (or can be compiled for) both Windows and Linux. Realistically this means using some form of wrapper (especially for GUIs) that would let me use the same code for both, like GTK. Problem there is I've never seen one of these in which the Windows version doesn't suck ass. Maybe I could write my own if I really need to, but ehh...

(BTW, if it's possible to somehow run Windows inside Linux, that'd be awesome. Virtual machines are about what I mean, but they tend to use a "fake" filesystem in which the virtual hard disk is really a file, so it'd be like having a whole different disk. I'd want to be able to load Windows in the box from my actual hard disk, do something there, save it, close the box, actually boot into Windows, and see those changes.)
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I think Ubuntu is the best of them in order to begin getting acquainted. Everything you can do in the GUI has a command-line equivalent. Thus, when you are ready to look under the hood, it isn't quite so bad. You have a variety of windowing systems to meet your needs, thus, desktop real estate is essentially limited by the amount of RAM you have with workspaces.

The most customizable text editor I know out there is emacs. However, to customize it, you need to know about LISP, which is difficult to work with at times.

NTFS write support in Linux is still spotty. However, I heard recently that perhaps NTFS write support is now robust. From windows, it is possible to access Linux partitions. But the easiest sharing of information between Windows and Linux is FAT32 without extra software. But as we all know FAT32 isn't reliable.

As for running Windows in Linux, all solutions require money (I still don't trust WINE). The cheapest is I believe is VMWare, which produces a reliable virtualization environment with the ability to write to a live HD drive (instead of a composite file as you were not too pleased about). In order to ease my transition into Linux, I'm running Ubuntu in VMWare that runs on Windows.

But anyways, the best advice will probably come from FreeDOS, but these are my two cents for a few of your issues.
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Originally posted by HyperHacker
What I'm really looking for is the open-source equivilant of Windows XP, minus the bugs. (I know of ReactOS but last I checked it's nowhere near complete enough to be useable. I'll probably try it anyway though.)

well the, you will never get what you expect from Linux. Because Linux is not Windows. It isn't implied that you can't do same tasks, but it does not work like Windows, because it isn't Windows. You have programming experience, maybe you should consider developing ReactOS..?

Originally posted by HyperHacker
I intend to keep XP installed as a dual boot but I want to use Linux for the majority of things, ideally only switching to Windows to see how my programs run there or run programs not available in Linux. That means I want to be able to do just about everything I can in Windows, especially developing software that can run in Windows since that's pretty much what I do all day*.

You can try using Wine for running Win32 PE binaries. It runs most programs fine, though some oddballs (like Microsoft Office, etc) don't run properly or at all. Also, there's MinGW for Linux, it can cross-compile native Win32 PE and other NT binaries; it's also a billion times easier to set up in Linux than Windows.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
Emulation is also important since I do a lot of ROM hacking too, and I hear there's very little available in the field of Linux emulators.

Not much to do here. Either deal with what's available, or use Windows for emulation. It's a hard choice, and I can't really tell which is better.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
Other important things include NTFS access without mucking up my data (as I'd rather not have to convert everything to EXT2 given there's no good EXT3 drivers for Windows), sharing files on the network (prefferably accessible from Windows machines), and supporting two monitors (both on one video card; one on a standard VGA port and one using a DVI-VGA adapter) acting as one large screen.

NTFS is not a problem, ntfs-3g pretty much nails NTFS write support 99% (there are some cases that it can't perform some operations; but the NTFS is in such an odd state, it's rare to ever encounter it, you probably won't). Windows can access ext2/3 alright with the driver from http://www.fs-driver.org/. It's closed source though, so I don't trust it on anything except test partitions.
Sharing files on a network is a simple with Samba (hey look its configuration uses INI format, so it won't be strange to you)
About the video thing, it's absolutely not a problem. Normally, I'd ask why do you ask, but I just remembered you're coming from Windows.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
And of course it has to be reliable and fast. (Mandrake was worrysome... only supported 1024x768 and crashed frequently. ) This doesn't just mean not crashing at random, but also not corrupting my files or having a lot of annoying little bugs like Windows.

Mmk, don't use Mandrake. Try Debian or Ubuntu. Those two both take on an Apple approach to software; it just works, and all the fancy stuff is hidden enough to not bother casual use, but it can easily be found and used for doing fancy commands.

Originally posted by HyperHackers
I can compile other peoples' code, but I've never had much luck doing it. I always have to make signifigant changes for one reason or another (in many cases just plain bad code) to get it working, which is difficult. (It doesn't help either that every piece of software I see these days that isn't written with Visual Studio uses a Unix-style makefile, which I have no experience with; I use batch scripts to compile my programs.)

First off, it's probably Windows bugs that make it seem like "bad code", if the code is coming from a Unix. This is assuming you're experienced only in windows. Makefiles aren't hard, they're basically shell-scripts (Unix equivalence of DOS Batch files) with features to make it more suitable for compilation.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
I've become quite accustomed to Textpad with its huge list of features and customizeable hotkeys. I'd really like to find something similar for Linux. I don't know how I ever lived without auto-indent, a clipbook, hotkeys to indent/outdent and move quickly between bookmarks and matching brackets in code, and a search/replace function that accepts regular expressions. Customization in general is pretty important to me.

Never used Textpad (or heard of it ), but most of those listed features are standard in all text editors, basic and advanced. reg-exp searches are the exception, you'll want something like Emacs or Vi(m) to do those.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
I've heard good things about Ubuntu but it sounds more like it's designed for people who have no idea how to use a computer than people who know computers but don't know Linux. Does it still offer all the power and flexibility of other distros for those who know how to use it?

Sure. It's designed for people with no experience with computers at all, like Mac OS X is. Also like Mac OS X, all that advanced Unixy stuff is a click's away to the Terminal.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
*This is probably my biggest concern. Most of what I do is design software. If I move to Linux I'll have to learn how to do everything there that I already know how to do in Windows. And since Windows is still dominant, I don't want to drop support for it (I know you'd all hate me if I released a Mario Kart 64 editor for Linux only), especially since I already have a number of Windows apps in development. So I'd have to write programs that run on (or can be compiled for) both Windows and Linux. Realistically this means using some form of wrapper (especially for GUIs) that would let me use the same code for both, like GTK. Problem there is I've never seen one of these in which the Windows version doesn't suck ass. Maybe I could write my own if I really need to, but ehh...

Try using Qt, it's pure awesome. On Unixes, it looks like whatever the hell you want. On Mac OS X, it looks indistinguishable from a native Aqua application. On Windows, it looks -- guess what -- just like native Win32!! And the API is marvelous, best API of all GUI widgets evar.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
(BTW, if it's possible to somehow run Windows inside Linux, that'd be awesome. Virtual machines are about what I mean, but they tend to use a "fake" filesystem in which the virtual hard disk is really a file, so it'd be like having a whole different disk. I'd want to be able to load Windows in the box from my actual hard disk, do something there, save it, close the box, actually boot into Windows, and see those changes.)

It's only feasible if the emulated hardware is the same as your real hardware; else Windows will be hell in the virtual machine, and even if you don't think you did anything, it'll be even more hell once you boot it again on the real machine (trust me, I tried )

The best you could do is use Qemu with KQEMU; it's the same speed as VMware, but absolutely free (well, KQEMU is proprietary; you could use qvm86 if you want free software only virtualization, but it's a bit slower). Yes, you'll use a hard disk image, but if you use FAT, you can still access files inside it with mtools (do not do this at the same time as running the machine).
HyperHacker

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Originally posted by FreeDOS +
Originally posted by HyperHacker
What I'm really looking for is the open-source equivilant of Windows XP, minus the bugs. (I know of ReactOS but last I checked it's nowhere near complete enough to be useable. I'll probably try it anyway though.)

well the, you will never get what you expect from Linux. Because Linux is not Windows. It isn't implied that you can't do same tasks, but it does not work like Windows, because it isn't Windows. You have programming experience, maybe you should consider developing ReactOS..?

I'll probably see if I can get in on that, but I'm only one man. It'd still take a while before the project is complete, and that may be longer than I can wait.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
I intend to keep XP installed as a dual boot but I want to use Linux for the majority of things, ideally only switching to Windows to see how my programs run there or run programs not available in Linux. That means I want to be able to do just about everything I can in Windows, especially developing software that can run in Windows since that's pretty much what I do all day*.

You can try using Wine for running Win32 PE binaries. It runs most programs fine, though some oddballs (like Microsoft Office, etc) don't run properly or at all. Also, there's MinGW for Linux, it can cross-compile native Win32 PE and other NT binaries; it's also a billion times easier to set up in Linux than Windows.

OK, good. As long as I can pass some extra parameter to my makefile or whatever to compile a Windows version and make sure it works. (BTW, I didn't find it difficult to set up in Windows.)

Originally posted by HyperHacker
Emulation is also important since I do a lot of ROM hacking too, and I hear there's very little available in the field of Linux emulators.

Not much to do here. Either deal with what's available, or use Windows for emulation. It's a hard choice, and I can't really tell which is better.

Eh, hopefully Wine can take care of it. I need an N64 debugger and the only one I know of is Nemu (and it sucks anyway), and I don't know if it has a Linux version.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
Other important things include NTFS access without mucking up my data (as I'd rather not have to convert everything to EXT2 given there's no good EXT3 drivers for Windows), sharing files on the network (prefferably accessible from Windows machines), and supporting two monitors (both on one video card; one on a standard VGA port and one using a DVI-VGA adapter) acting as one large screen.

NTFS is not a problem, ntfs-3g pretty much nails NTFS write support 99% (there are some cases that it can't perform some operations; but the NTFS is in such an odd state, it's rare to ever encounter it, you probably won't). Windows can access ext2/3 alright with the driver from http://www.fs-driver.org/. It's closed source though, so I don't trust it on anything except test partitions.
Sharing files on a network is a simple with Samba (hey look its configuration uses INI format, so it won't be strange to you)
About the video thing, it's absolutely not a problem. Normally, I'd ask why do you ask, but I just remembered you're coming from Windows.

Right, I heard about ntfs-3g a while ago (or else I'd have just asked for EXT3 for Windows ). I've seen a few EXT2/3 drivers for Windows but they were buggy and none could write EXT3.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
And of course it has to be reliable and fast. (Mandrake was worrysome... only supported 1024x768 and crashed frequently. ) This doesn't just mean not crashing at random, but also not corrupting my files or having a lot of annoying little bugs like Windows.

Mmk, don't use Mandrake. Try Debian or Ubuntu. Those two both take on an Apple approach to software; it just works, and all the fancy stuff is hidden enough to not bother casual use, but it can easily be found and used for doing fancy commands.

Excellent. Come to think of it, Mac OS is probably closer to what I want than Windows. (I haven't used it in a long time though, so I'm not sure.)

Originally posted by HyperHackers
I can compile other peoples' code, but I've never had much luck doing it. I always have to make signifigant changes for one reason or another (in many cases just plain bad code) to get it working, which is difficult. (It doesn't help either that every piece of software I see these days that isn't written with Visual Studio uses a Unix-style makefile, which I have no experience with; I use batch scripts to compile my programs.)

First off, it's probably Windows bugs that make it seem like "bad code", if the code is coming from a Unix. This is assuming you're experienced only in windows. Makefiles aren't hard, they're basically shell-scripts (Unix equivalence of DOS Batch files) with features to make it more suitable for compilation.

Nah, I mean they do things like cast incorrectly or not at all, rely on undocumented, incorrect or depreceated behaviour *cough*everyVisualStudioprogramever*cough*, etc... you'd be surprised how many peoples' code is just plain messy. Try to compile WinLAME in C++.
I'm sure I can figure out shell scripts, just I have no experience using them.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
I've become quite accustomed to Textpad with its huge list of features and customizeable hotkeys. I'd really like to find something similar for Linux. I don't know how I ever lived without auto-indent, a clipbook, hotkeys to indent/outdent and move quickly between bookmarks and matching brackets in code, and a search/replace function that accepts regular expressions. Customization in general is pretty important to me.

Never used Textpad (or heard of it ), but most of those listed features are standard in all text editors, basic and advanced. reg-exp searches are the exception, you'll want something like Emacs or Vi(m) to do those.

Well maybe I'll just have to hack Regexp into something.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
I've heard good things about Ubuntu but it sounds more like it's designed for people who have no idea how to use a computer than people who know computers but don't know Linux. Does it still offer all the power and flexibility of other distros for those who know how to use it?

Sure. It's designed for people with no experience with computers at all, like Mac OS X is. Also like Mac OS X, all that advanced Unixy stuff is a click's away to the Terminal.

Alright, I might just have to give it a shot then.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
*This is probably my biggest concern. Most of what I do is design software. If I move to Linux I'll have to learn how to do everything there that I already know how to do in Windows. And since Windows is still dominant, I don't want to drop support for it (I know you'd all hate me if I released a Mario Kart 64 editor for Linux only), especially since I already have a number of Windows apps in development. So I'd have to write programs that run on (or can be compiled for) both Windows and Linux. Realistically this means using some form of wrapper (especially for GUIs) that would let me use the same code for both, like GTK. Problem there is I've never seen one of these in which the Windows version doesn't suck ass. Maybe I could write my own if I really need to, but ehh...

Try using Qt, it's pure awesome. On Unixes, it looks like whatever the hell you want. On Mac OS X, it looks indistinguishable from a native Aqua application. On Windows, it looks -- guess what -- just like native Win32!! And the API is marvelous, best API of all GUI widgets evar.

Awesome. I always hated cross-platform GUI libraries that don't look or behave like the native GUIs. GTK is really bad for this; it's ugly and lacks a lot of functionality that literally every other Windows program I've used has.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
(BTW, if it's possible to somehow run Windows inside Linux, that'd be awesome. Virtual machines are about what I mean, but they tend to use a "fake" filesystem in which the virtual hard disk is really a file, so it'd be like having a whole different disk. I'd want to be able to load Windows in the box from my actual hard disk, do something there, save it, close the box, actually boot into Windows, and see those changes.)

It's only feasible if the emulated hardware is the same as your real hardware; else Windows will be hell in the virtual machine, and even if you don't think you did anything, it'll be even more hell once you boot it again on the real machine (trust me, I tried )

The best you could do is use Qemu with KQEMU; it's the same speed as VMware, but absolutely free (well, KQEMU is proprietary; you could use qvm86 if you want free software only virtualization, but it's a bit slower). Yes, you'll use a hard disk image, but if you use FAT, you can still access files inside it with mtools (do not do this at the same time as running the machine).

Why wouldn't it be the same hardware? I might even be able to just use Wine or similar for the most part.

Thanks for the input. (Long post!)

(edited by HyperHacker on 08-26-06 04:29 PM)
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Originally posted by HyperHacker
Originally posted by HyperHacker
*This is probably my biggest concern. Most of what I do is design software. If I move to Linux I'll have to learn how to do everything there that I already know how to do in Windows. And since Windows is still dominant, I don't want to drop support for it (I know you'd all hate me if I released a Mario Kart 64 editor for Linux only), especially since I already have a number of Windows apps in development. So I'd have to write programs that run on (or can be compiled for) both Windows and Linux. Realistically this means using some form of wrapper (especially for GUIs) that would let me use the same code for both, like GTK. Problem there is I've never seen one of these in which the Windows version doesn't suck ass. Maybe I could write my own if I really need to, but ehh...

Try using Qt, it's pure awesome. On Unixes, it looks like whatever the hell you want. On Mac OS X, it looks indistinguishable from a native Aqua application. On Windows, it looks -- guess what -- just like native Win32!! And the API is marvelous, best API of all GUI widgets evar.

Awesome. I always hated cross-platform GUI libraries that don't look or behave like the native GUIs. GTK is really bad for this; it's ugly and lacks a lot of functionality that literally every other Windows program I've used has.


If you decide to use Ubuntu, then you probably don't want to use Gnome as your deskop windowing manager as Gnome is built off of GTK. Qt looks appealing if you don't mind C++.

Besides doing google searches to get help when I run into trouble when using some Linux flavor, is there some good, reliable place to search for help?
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Frankly, and sadly, I have not found a text editor that even comes close to how awesome TextPad is... >> And Kororaa is almost as easy to install as Ubuntu, but instead of being Debian based, it's Gentoo based, so you get those cool perks like compiling the system for your architecture.
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Well I tried the Ubuntu live CD. The bootscreen looks nice. That's about all I managed though. Every option leads to an endless blinking cursor that only responds to Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
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sometimes I wonder how much your hardware sucks
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Funny...i thought the ubuntu live CD gives you a chance to demo Ubuntu first before actually installing it...and you still couldn't get to that HH? Are you sure you got the liveCD from the ubuntu website?

When I installed Ubuntu 5.10 on VMware, things went without a hitch...with the exception of running out of space because I didn't make the root partition large enough...
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Originally posted by neotransotaku

If you decide to use Ubuntu, then you probably don't want to use Gnome as your deskop windowing manager as Gnome is built off of GTK. Qt looks appealing if you don't mind C++.

Kubuntu / Xubuntu

Originally posted by FreeDOS +
sometimes I wonder how much your hardware sucks


Or it could be a badly burned CD. I've had that happen twice before burning a good Kubuntu CD.

Xubuntu boots up on my p2 233, but takes quite awhile (at least ten minutes). If you want to only try linux, try Slax or Knoppix or maybe even LLGP. Those boot up much faster than a Ubuntu live cd
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I burned Kubuntu at 1x, same thing. Works on the laptop though. It's nice, but there's a few things I'd have to fix before really using it (wifi, huge icons in taskbar when sideways, #%&%$ touchpad with its annoying "any touch or breath acts as click" that can only be disabled by having a Windoze program running).
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You may have to disable some boot settings before you go to the installation, if I remember somewhere in the help files before you boot the install cd, there is a remedy for the blinking cursor of death. I've also heard that installation from the alternate cd is much better working.
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