Why use Linux?

[cpm]

Originally Posted by kainjow

I'm extremely bored right now and am downloading Ubuntu 5.1 Live CD (for PPC) and was wondering for those of you who use Linux and Mac OS X:

Why do you use Linux if you have Mac OS X? What applications do you run in Linux that you can't (or do not want to?) run in OS X?

I use Linux because I have been using Linux since 1995, kernel 1.13. It's always
been good to me, and the last decades has shown me nothing to countermand
that.

OS-X is great in a whole lot of ways. However, the desktop isn't X, and
I've been using X for a long time, and am quite used to it. Yes, you X-ify
OS-X, but OS-X is already a great OS-X, I don't see any reason to
mess with it much.
Apps in Linux, pretty much everything I do for a living.
Apps in OS-X, Apple-specific st uff is best done on the Mac, Office-X is
(imho) preferrable to Office-XP.

Originally Posted by kainjow

Also, do you run Linux on an x86 or PPC processor?

x86,x86-64

Originally Posted by kainjow

One thing I've seen when downloading Linux apps is that some of the apps that aren't open source aren't available for PPC Linux, for example the Steam server (used for Counter Strike and Half-Life). That's kind of annoying

Wouldn't know, I don't use non-free software much. Only on proprietary
systems, do I use proprietary software. On a free software system,
(most of my life) I only use free software. Open source doesn't mean
much to me.

Originally Posted by kainjow

Another question: do you prefer KDE or GNOME? Also, what's the major differences (yeah, I could Google, but I want to hear personal opinions).

I moved from Gnome to kde about 4 years with a trial of Mandrake. Stuck
with it. Haven't paid much attention to Gnome since. It seems neither
has the developer community since kde got their licensing in order.

Originally Posted by kainjow

If future PC companies allow running multiple OSs at the same time with Intel's (or AMD's) new processors, I would be very tempted to get a nice PC laptop for running Windows and Linux at the same time. Heck, if Apple allowed this in their PowerBooks, that would be extremely awesome! mmm time to start saving up