Viable Linux Destop?

[jaguar]

Lisa - a program called X Downloader, seems to be permanatly on the front page of linux tucows so..

Since i started this thread i've had t reinstall Win2k because of work i needed to do in VisualBAsic/Access for school. Right now i'm linux about 50% of the time. Mandrake is fantasic, its very windows like when it comes ot ease of use but when somehting breaks it often takes a bit of tracking down. The update utility is alot like apt-get, which is of course god of updaters.


VMWare ain't bad but its just so slllooowwww so i gave up on it. Been meaning io give Wine a try, aparantly its coming along well (can even emulate SirCam so it must be good )

Its mostly the lack of professional development software thats cause me to move back a bit, i need my photoshop, there is no Flash Director for Linux, Illustrator, Lightwave etc.. So for now, dual boot i will continue. The other royal pain in the acc about having multiple OS's is that linux takes 2 primary partitions, leaving me only iwth 2 for windows. Due to me bing lazy and having my C drive as NTFS when i decided for format c and reinstall Win2k, i totally screwed myself. My win2k disk is an upgrade version requiring window to run, usually you install 98, then 2k, then delete 98. I forgot c was NTFS. So i went into fdisk ot delete it, fdisk decided it didn't liek me and refsued ot let me make a new Primary partition afterwards. I couldn't format the entire drive because i hadn't done a recent backup of everything (my bad again) including 5-6Gb f MP3s i was NOT going to delete. This menat i had no free primary partitions, or ones i could delete. I was recused by a friend to whom i took my hd(none of my others were big enough to take everyhting i needed to back up), copied everything important off and formatted the whole thing, overall a very painful learning experience about having 2 OS and 3 file formats on one HD. I'm not going to touch NTFS again.