PC vs Laptop

[ArcticWolf]

Originally Posted by SPARTISH

ive herd that windows vista is better than linux for writing on word and searching the web...is this true?
or will i be able to do the exact same things i can do on vista on linux coz i herd linux is better gameplay speed and affects =o

No, Vista is not better than Linux. But you may feel more comfortable in Windows because you've always used it.

Instead of Office you have OpenOffice.org. It's cross platform, that means it works in linux, windows, freebsd, mac, opensolaris, solaris express, aix, etc...
Give it a try, it's free (and open-source).
Oh, and it's from Sun Microsystems, a big company.

You may find Regnum runs faster on Linux than Windows. I don't know, I never played Regnum on Windows. :P
And for anything not available for linux (autocad and stuff) you can try Wine, a kind of emulator.

You can even have both linux and windows in the same computer. That's called dual-boot. I recommend you to try this before switching to linux only.

Linux (specially Ubuntu, OpenSuSE and Fedora) are easy to learn, but keep in mind they're different from Windows. Funny fact: my father doesn't like computers very much, and I don't like to fix computers all day long... So I installed Debian on an old spare K6-2 and gave it to him (of course I tweaked it a little bit so as to enable remote administration). He got so used to Debian that when he had to use Windows he found it difficult and useless.