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GTS:
I'm thinking of switching to Linux some day (i'm kinda tired of windows), but theres one major thing that keeps me from switching:

I've heard that linux support for NTFS isnt perfect (reading NTFS partitions is ok, but not writing), and all my partitions are NTFS ... Backing up 180 GB of stuff isnt fun (even if i delete tons of stuff, its still too much).

Does anyone know if the above statement is true? If it is, i definetly won't switch to linux anytime soon.

Rogue`:
Well ^^

That was the case for a long time, although u would be better talking to Eq or Shahid, but afaik Reading and Writing to NTFS is possible and safe now :)

Which distro u thinking of? I highly recommend debian (unstable/testing) :)

GTS:
Mh, that would be nice ^^
But considering i want to finish gtsdll _some_ day, i need to use windows ;)
On the other hand ... i have no motivation / passion to finish it :(

Yea, i was thinking of debian / ubuntu ^^

DXTR66:

--- Quote from: GTS on May 02, 2006, 07:43:47 AM ---Mh, that would be nice ^^
But considering i want to finish gtsdll _some_ day, i need to use windows ;)
On the other hand ... i have no motivation / passion to finish it :(

Yea, i was thinking of debian / ubuntu ^^

--- End quote ---

Well then I would definitly prefer debian. I tried ubuntu and it wasn't able of _READING_ the partitions. Also, ubuntu is not able to write to fat32 paritions (reading works fine).

But I'm pretty sure there is somewhere a setting to support writing to fat32.

Another thing: You know I tried ubuntu last week, and what should i say...my imagination and the reality didn't nearly match. E.g.: It took me a few hours to get my tv tuner running. The interesting thing, ubuntu identified the card perfectly during the installation. But not _ONE_ program was capable of showing me a picture AND playing the sound. At the end i found something in the configuration, now everything works but the program is not very good. eg the max. resolution is set to 7xx x 5xx and that sucks pretty much.
Next thing, the packaging system in linux is very good. From my point of view, it is way more comfortable then installing a programm with windows. But (!!!!), they use the packaging system in such a "sissy"-way...it's incredible. When a distribution will be released, they also provide a list of programs which are compatible to the current distribution. You can install those programs with the packaging system but not releases which were released after the release of the distribution. eg. in ubuntu you get firefox 1.0.8 - NOT firefox 1.5.3! The reason for that is, that ubuntu seems to be a distribution for people who needs a stable system.

At the moment i decided to freeze my linux enthusiasm and give winxp a shot. If my system stays instable, i guess i will try another linux distribution.

GTS:
Hmm, that sounds pretty bad :(
If it is like this, i'll stick to windows.

Thanks for that detailed answer :)

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