Yeah pay 1300 bucks for a completely non-upgradeable boat anchor with the same internal specs as a $399 budget system from BestBuy. Only a retard would do that.
The only thing that is worth any money in those one-piece hunks of junk they try and pawn off as some miracle of computing would be the LCD screen in the 24" iMacs...
here's a hilarious quote from their website:
I seriously hope thats a friggin typo! Yeah.... buy Mac... they're the bestest at RIPPING YOU OFF! Hence why I said anyone who buys one or falls for their stupid marketing is nothing short of retarded. FFS you can install OSX onto x86 hardware with Intel 965P chipsets anyways, so why even bother buying a Mac anymore?
at least it doesnt affect the other post layouts that dont have the stupid server name. I've seen similar things happen on other forums (not VB) where people have abused the "location" or "from" field in their profile and causing the same kind of issue.. only problem was it affected ALL the posts underneath it.... im sure you can imagine how much of a pain that can be, especially if that word is half the length of the friggin screen
It could be different? If you don't know, then why post a completely uninformed opinion? -- it most certainly is quite different since what you are describing sounds a lot like RedHat 5 thru 9. Albeit around the time 9 came out package managers were becoming more and more the norm and were beginning to be included in the distros base install package... The package manager is a program/utility that you use to install a program.... their names differ depending on what flavour of linux you use but it's usually either apt, yum or yast2 . It searches the various mirrors on the net for the fastest one near you, looks for the file you want to install, the looks for what that file needs in order to install and run, then grabs it all for you and installs it in one shot. It's as easy as typing:
-- yum install apache (on a redhat distro)
-- apt-get install firefox (on a debian distro)
-- yast2 -i apache2 (on a suse/opensuse distro)
and *poof* ... off it goes, searches for the file, then its dependencies and gets them all and installs. It's even all available thru a pretty GUI now. Heck you dont even have to tell it if you have a 32bit or 64bit OS, it will figure ALL that out for you. If only Windows was just as easy!
I really do pity the "Windows generation" sometimes.... If only you guys grew up with real computers.... not computers with pretty little "skins" ontop of the real OS... heck i remember when something like this was like seeing windows vista for the first time and going WOW
Big ol' dual 5.25" floppy drives, one disk (360KB in size) containing the OS and another disk containing your files... no hard drives.... 640KB of ram, 128K video memory.... 1200bps modem or a 2400bps if u were rich (imagine downloading something at 0.15KB/s or 0.29KB/s ... ROFL )
Oh and if you were a real power user, you could upgrade to 1MB of RAM.... if you had a spare line of credit.
@ OP: If you haven't used Linux before, like many others have said, it can be a bit daunting at first... Ubuntu happens to be one of the more user-friendly versions where most things can be done thru the GUI/Desktop rather then the command line. Linux is very powerful and once you figure out the "inner workings" and how to use the command line you will soon see that its not really all that much at all.
Most "flavours" of Linux will run quite a few Windows games thru 3rd party addons, namely Wine and Cedega. But be aware it WILL NOT RUN EVERYTHING -- So if you see a nice shiny box for Crysis on a store's shelf and have hopes to play that on Linux, not gonna happen.
Looking at it from a non-gaming perspective -- OpenOffice runs on Linux (and comes with Ubuntu if i'm not mistaken..) which is completely interoperable with Microsoft Office (Opens & Saves to/from MS Office file formats), Firefox works fine, VMWare & Sun VirtualBox run fine (im sure you'd have no need to run something like this... but meh)... and theres a whole whackload of stuff im not even going to bother putting down here... but im sure you can see where im going with this.
So.... If you enjoy a bit of challenge and want to have a stable and secure system, I'd reccomend going with Ubuntu (FYI, Kubuntu i find works better for beginners... it's desktop operates similar to Windows so there is minimal [if any] learning curve in that respect). LFS runs OK under Linux (with some very minor issues, like poor shadows..) -- For a full list of applications tested to work on Linux while using WINE, please visit http://appdb.winehq.org/
Let us know what you choose and dont be afraid to ask any questions