User:Guymer

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Hi!

I first got into Linux when one of my friends, dot-slash, had a dual-booting PC which had openSUSE on it. At the time I was studying for my Physics Degree and the use of Linux looked convenient for my programming module. I played around with a Slax Live CD for about half an hour and then decided "puft - just do it" so I downloaded openSUSE 10 and made my laptop dual-booting. It was then that I saw what a useful and efficient system Linux is in general - way more useful than just a programming system. I used a dual-booting machine all the time as I did a lot of PHP coding (with an Apache Server) for my own website and Fortran coding for my course. After graduating from University I continue to use openSUSE as my main Operating System. I use:

Amarok for listening to music;
Firefox for browsing the internet;
Thunderbird for email management;
Kate for coding;
KAudioCreator for ripping CDs to FLAC;
The Gimp for graphics creation; and
Kaffeine for watching DVDs.

I still use a dual-boot machine because I am not ready to make the full switch to Linux just yet. There are two reasons for this:

Games: Most computer games, such as Half-Life 2, use DirectX and hence it is difficult to get them to run on Linux with the same performance as they have under Windows.
Digital Photography: I am an avid amateur digital photographer and I take all my photos in RAW. Linux has good support for RAW files, via tools like dcraw, but I think that Adobe Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw is the best workflow combination I have found and so I still use it with Windows XP.

If these two issues ever get solved (i.e., games get coded in OpenGL and Adobe releases Creative Suite for Linux) then I will switch 100% to Linux and never look back. I don't mind paying for good software; I would definitely pay for Creative Suite to run on openSUSE.

I have written a openSUSE 10.3 Tutorial of my experiences with installing and configuring openSUSE a few times. You can also download it as a pdf. It shows how I have configured it to suit my preferences, you can read it if you want - it is aimed at beginners.

Have a lot of fun...

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 I first got into Linux when one of my friends, [http://www.dot-slash.co.uk dot-slash], had a dual-booting PC which had '''openSUSE''' on it. At the time I was studying for my '''Physics Degree''' and the use of Linux looked convenient for my programming module. I played around with a '''Slax Live CD''' for about half an hour and then decided "''puft - just do it''" so I downloaded '''openSUSE 10''' and made my laptop dual-booting. It was then that I saw what a useful and efficient system Linux is in general - ''way'' more useful than just a programming system. I used a dual-booting machine all the time as I did a lot of '''PHP''' coding (with an ''[[Apache]] Server'') for my own website and '''Fortran''' coding for my course. After graduating from University I continue to use '''openSUSE''' as my main Operating System. I use:
-* [[Amarok]] for my music;
+* [[Amarok]] for listening to music;
-* [[Firefox]] for the internet;
+* [[Firefox]] for browsing the internet;
-* '''Thunderbird''' for email;
+* [[Thunderbird]] for email management;
 * '''Kate''' for coding;
 * '''KAudioCreator''' for ripping CDs to FLAC;
-* The [[Gimp]] for graphic creation; and
+* The [[Gimp]] for graphics creation; and
 * [[Kaffeine]] for watching DVDs.