I've installed Beatrix on my laptop and it's fully noice. I've always had problems getting Ubuntu to run happily because 256MB just doesn't cut it anymore. Beatrix is part Knoppix, part Ubuntu, part custom-Beatrix fun. It's very fast. From the command line vi now opens in a snap. Opening vi had become a little ridiculous on Dapper.
So I get all the niceness and convenience of special, modern things like Ubuntu, and the speediness of those other distros like arch and Gentoo, that rather frighten me. Yay for that Watsky fellow.
You know, I hate this stuff.
It’s crap.
It’s just making it hard for me.
Hard to stay with Windows because “Linux Is Less Friendly”. I hate it when my arguments are completely voided and swept off the table with such rigor.
So, given the obvious thing that this still won’t run things like Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Metasequoia, Bryce, Maya, GTA:SA… do you think it’s wise for me to Make The Switch and switch back to Win when I need to do something special?
Are there file(-system) incompatibilities between Beatrix and XP? I mean, do I need to make a new partition formatted especially for Beatrix data? Surely all my current files are accessible by Beatrix when I’ve live-CD’d from it? (I understand that it’ll take another partition and boot menu crap if I wanted it to be a local installation)
PS.
Beatrix is the name of our queen. She’s a respectable person. That speaks for Beatrix Linux. :)
Wil / 2:38am / 28 August 2006
Ubuntu is better, if you’re looking for goodness. Beatrix is better if you’re looking for speediness and simpleness. But it’s harder to put new software on, because it’s based on a much older version of Debian.
I would stay with Windows. I think Windows XP is about as good as Ubuntu. I’d switch to save money, or for programming. But otherwise, I wouldn’t bother. Windows is still less spongy than Gnome as well.
Beatrix should read (and write with difficulty) NTFS. Although I use FAT for data partitions because it saves hassles. And yes, you will need a new partition to install it. The live CD is pretty fast, but probably not super productive for your sort of work.
Ryan / 9:34am / 1 September 2006