Tuesday, March 5, 2013

How do I get itunes on Linux using Wine? I've looked it up but all the tutorials are so confusing...?

Q. Use as much description for a dummy like me, please and thank you.

A. While it's possible to make it install and run under Wine, it's still very, VERY buggy that way. For example, it will crash if you try to go to the iTunes store. Here's an article about alternatives (one of which is to run iTunes in a virtual machine):

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-software-for-itunes-ipod-classic-ipod-touch-iphone/

im thinking of getting rid of windows xp and having linux operating system, but how do i do that?
Q. the reason y i want to get rid of mswindows xp is because it takes up alot of hard disk space and ram, i have only 128 mb of ram. do u think i shud get linux? if i do, i wont be able 2 have microsoft applications like windows media player and microsoft office etc.., what shud i do? get linux or stay with microsoft office?

A. Linux is great, but it's also very different from Windows.
Switching to Linux may prove a huge challenge if you're not good with computers.
Indeed you will not have Windows Media Player or Office under Linux, but good, free applications are available for Linux that replace WMP or Office rather conveniently.
If you want to give it a try, I would suggest picking up a book about Linux for newcomers (e.g. "Linux for Dummies") before doing anything else.

How do you install drivers for your hardware on Linux?
Q. I have Gentoo and I love it except I can't connect to the internet. I have a Dell laptop 100L Latitude (hey! It was practically free). I am feeling rather slow so a really good website would be really helpful (Like "Installing drivers on Gentoo for Dummies" sort of thing) Or if it isn't as hard as it feels like right now and you can just explain it- that would be good too. :-D

A. It might be in your best interest to an easier distro to start off with gentoo is great but not for beginners.
as far as the net not working could be a network connection not set I have had this a few times on some distros. Any ubuntu based distro is a much better choice for a newbie I hope your time with linux is good but it might be less then you hope for with gentoo this early in the game.



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