Operating Systems and Dual Booting

I despise windows 7 on my laptop and am thinking of changing operating systems, should i go for the Mac Os? or Linux? could someone suggest the pros and cons of these OS? Similarly i use my laptop for University Work will i have any problems with word prosseser compatibility and stuff like that if i run a different os ?
Answer #1
MAC OS you will have to buy a new computer (Unluss your PC will work with the hacked versions of the apple OS)
Linux is my favorite. For new people Ubuntu is a great linux OS.
I can’t really thing of any cons to linux except if you use things like MS word,excel, etc there is no linux version for that although there is an alternate called open office.
Answer #2
If you’re dual booting with a Microsoft product I advice installing the Microsoft product first, because they tend to wipe the bootloader which makes it impossible to boot from your secondary OS.
Answer #3
Will Open Office Allow me to open Ms documents?
Answer #4
Will Open Office Allow me to open Ms documents?
Yes it does.
Answer #5
Thanks, I heard that with linux os i can change it to make it personalised for me is this true? and is it easy to do so?
Answer #6
Thanks, I heard that with linux os i can change it to make it personalised for me is this true? and is it easy to do so?
Yes you can, it is easy.
Answer #7
On your orginal point, moving from Windows to Mac and moving from Windows to Linux are going in totally the opposite direction.
Mac is best for people who want something that just works well and don’t really care what’s going on ‘under the bonnet’.
Linux on then other hand is best for people who love to get their hands dirty tweaking and tinkering with stuff, (aka geeks)
Windows is somewhere in between these.
Answer #8
On your orginal point, moving from Windows to Mac and moving from Windows to Linux are going in totally the opposite direction.
Mac is best for people who want something that just works well and don't really care what's going on 'under the bonnet'.
Linux on then other hand is best for people who love to get their hands dirty tweaking and tinkering with stuff, (aka geeks)
Windows is somewhere in between these.
Good summary.
Answer #9
i like the idea of playing around and making it work for me, so think i’m gonna go linux that ubuntu looks pretty good.
Do i need much knowledge to play around with my linux?
Also what are the chances of me completly messing up my laptop whilst playing around on linux?
Answer #10
i like the idea of playing around and making it work for me, so think i'm gonna go linux that ubuntu looks pretty good.
Do i need much knowledge to play around with my linux?
Also what are the chances of me completly messing up my laptop whilst playing around on linux?
If you are careful, your chances aren’t as high. But if you just jump in and start messing with things that you don’t know what they do then you will probably screw something up. lol.
Answer #11
hmmm i’m gonna do some more research into linux then to make sure that when i swap over i don’t ~ censored ~ anything up. thanks for your help guys. Also e=mc2 do you use the ubuntu os? it looks pretty good does it deliver what it promises if you don’t use abuntu what do you use instead?
Answer #12
Moved from Off-Topic to Helpdesk.
Answer #13
Tinkering with the OS can’t make things any worse than having to reinstall it completely though.
As long as you make sure your important files are backed up regularly you wont do any permanent damage to anything.