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Offline G Man

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Re: How is Hotspotshield?
« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2012, 11:33:58 pm »
Wow Linux really sounds great. What do you think the advantages of windows are?

--- By the way i do enjoy gaming on the PC
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Re: How is Hotspotshield?
« Reply #16 on: September 16, 2012, 11:42:38 pm »
Quote from: G Man on September 16, 2012, 11:33:58 pm
Wow Linux really sounds great. What do you think the advantages of windows are?

--- By the way i do enjoy gaming on the PC


The only advantage of windows that I know of is that there is much more commercial software for it. And almost all good games are commercial software. ALL good video editing and motion graphcis/animation software is commercial and Windows/Mac only.
You get the idea. There are many great software packages that are simply not available on Linux. And wine doesn't help at all in many of the strongest cases, such as video editing/creation.
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Re: How is Hotspotshield?
« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2012, 03:07:25 am »
Quote from: G Man on September 16, 2012, 11:33:58 pm
Wow Linux really sounds great. What do you think the advantages of windows are?

--- By the way i do enjoy gaming on the PC

For gaming there is no other way to go than using Windows. Linux is not buildt for gaming.

And honestly, advantages of Windows? I cant think of a single one.
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Re: How is Hotspotshield?
« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2012, 03:23:24 am »
Okay awesome. I appreciate the help.  :)
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Re: How is Hotspotshield?
« Reply #19 on: September 17, 2012, 04:57:00 am »
My troll sense is tingling.
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Re: How is Hotspotshield?
« Reply #20 on: September 17, 2012, 06:53:40 pm »
Quote from: ande on September 17, 2012, 03:07:25 am
And honestly, advantages of Windows? I cant think of a single one.

Windows it still often the best base OS to break into other Windows systems. :) Breaking into other systems doesn't have the same requirements, though I do use BT5 when I have to drop to layer 2 shenanigans, Windows tools are a bit short in that area.
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Re: How is Hotspotshield?
« Reply #21 on: September 22, 2012, 08:50:15 pm »
I've been a GNU/Linux user for about 6 years.
It's hard to migrate at first, I had a dream when I was younger that I would let my imagination go wild and create some cool Flash movies.
Unfortunately Adobe Flash is a no no inside Linux, it runs in WINE but the stability isn't so good.
I found a great alternative though, called 'Pencil' which is great for animating over vectors.

Another thing I missed was gaming too, but you can get basically anything running in Linux with a few tweaks, for example, I wanted to run my favourite point and click game called "The Longest Journey" I had the official CD but it would not run in any Wine version as there was a problem with the shading, so I studied deep into Google for days, found the solution that several contributers of Wine released Patches, I compiled a Wine prefix, added the patches and the game works perfect.

Another game that I love is World of Warcraft, this runs in almost any Wine version with no edits/tweaks.

Linux is all about Trial and error, but it's fun and you'll gain a huge achievement of accomplishment.

Also, I'd like to add, In all the 6 years of running Linux, I've had none, zero, nada viruses at all, and only 2 kernel panics.

In Windows, I had 5+ BSOD in the first month I used it!

Hope this helps :)
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Re: How is Hotspotshield?
« Reply #22 on: September 22, 2012, 10:10:32 pm »
Quote from: Conch on September 22, 2012, 08:50:15 pm
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Also, I'd like to add, In all the 6 years of running Linux, I've had none, zero, nada viruses at all
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How do you know? :)
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Re: How is Hotspotshield?
« Reply #23 on: September 22, 2012, 10:20:51 pm »
What I suggest since you like gaming, yet want to explore the wonderful vastness that is Linux, why not dual boot? When it comes to playing games on a PC (although you're money is better spent on a console) boot into Windows. When you want to do any type of security or pentesting boot into your desired flavor of linux. That way you get the best of both worlds.

For example on my laptop I have Windows 7 which is the OS my girl uses for the Adobe Master Collection Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, etc. Those "commercial applications" that wont run very well on linux) and then its dual booted with Backtrack 5 (although dual booting isn't necessary because of the live os features that come on most linux distributions)

To go further the LiveOS feature of just about all Linux OS's gives you the ability to actually use the operating system without actually installing it on your system. You can even set up a USB drive and have it persistent so you can modify it (unlike on a CD/DVD).

With Linux there are several options, and for a newbie, I would say go get yourself Ubuntu...

You can also even use the "Wubi Installer" to use a windows executable to set up a dual boot with Ubuntu for you, just like installing any other application ;)

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer

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As for the topic, I agree with ande on this one, free VPNs suck and not good for some real security. I use UltraSurf to do standard browsing, but any kind of hacking I'm using private vpns/proxies/tunnels at a public wifi with no cameras (lots of little coffee shops are like this) or cruise by an apartment complex and pick up a wifi single (WEP protection is a piece of cake and with Backtrack, there are several tools that are just point and click)
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Re: How is Hotspotshield?
« Reply #24 on: September 22, 2012, 10:55:44 pm »
Quote from: namespace7 on September 22, 2012, 10:10:32 pm
How do you know? :)

I could have, but I never noticed.  ;D
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