Why use any operating system? Operating systems exist to run programs. The programs I want to run are built for Linux. Thus I use Linux.
GarethDW said:I've tried explaining to some people about hard drives not being called "the C drive" or "the D drive"
v0n said:This reminds me - naming conventions - I have a friend who back in a day liked to justify his £300 a day sun specialist contractor fee by throwing "lamers terms" along the lines of "there was a massive file system corruption on partiton c0t2d0s7, I fixed bad sectors, rescanned all inods and restored data by untarring last dump from rmt/0" on unexpecting cheque book owners. It has to be said - "I run checkdisk on your F drive before restoring last backup from tape" doesn't sound anywhere near as glamorous...
Fair enough, my statement was a bit of an exaggeration... Bes's statement is much more accurate!! (Arch for the win )Bes said:To be fair I would run Gentoo if I could be bothered with leaving my computer on 24/7 so it could recompile something or other every time an update for something I have installed somewhere is released. Whilst I love the idea of Gentoo, in my opinion it's just too hard to use day-to-day like Arch.DJ_Jestar said:My desktop has lasted 3 years without so much as even stumbling, let alone falling over. Sneeze == Gentoo fallover? You built it wrong
Rhys said:What did you install
Ububtu. Im now trying Mandriva 2007 Spring which Ive read is close to a Windows experience.
Well if you don't want to customise it, why are you using Linux?
Because linux is hyped as an "free" alternative to Windows and I want to see what its like and then hopefully enjoy it and then start using it.
No offence intended, but this kinda annoys me... I mean the emphasis placed on it being free (as in beer) by some people. I think you've got the right attitude - seeing if you like using it and will stick with it.Rhys said:Well if you don't want to customise it, why are you using Linux?
Because linux is hyped as an "free" alternative to Windows and I want to see what its like and then hopefully enjoy it and then start using it.
C'mon, you make it sound like rocket science.. 'Command codes'?? Let's look at ubuntu/debian, sudo apt-get install picasa. Is that so hard? Or, you can use synaptic if you really can't type five words and would prefer to use a gui.squiffy said:M-Audio is supposed to be most widely supported soundcard, but it doesn't work (digital out) ATI videocards aren't fully supported.
Installing Linux MCE knackered Ubuntu. I followed the instructions.
Linux is a geeks OS. It might be better, but you need to learn command codes to install drivers and software. Not exactly user friendly, as noob should be able to do that, and if you need to learn command codes later at least the system is setup already.
likwid said:C'mon, you make it sound like rocket science.. 'Command codes'?? Let's look at ubuntu/debian, sudo apt-get install picasa. Is that so hard? Or, you can use synaptic if you really can't type five words and would prefer to use a gui.
Dj_Jestar said:Keyword in that little rant/moan of yours:
MS
They don't want anything but other MS products to recognise it. ATi too don't seem to care about anything but MS platforms.
marc2003 said:i got my x1950pro working in ubuntu in about 2 minutes. click system>administration>restricted drivers manager. easier than windows.
admittedly i wasted a cd burning the live cd download. that wouldn't even boot and that was down to my ati card. i had to download and run the text mode setup cd....
I could also mention that nVidia are barely caring about non-MS platform's too.. take a look at their linux driver history, all of them are beta, soley because they don't want to support it.squiffy said:I have Nvidia too.
So I'm moaning/ranting because "it doesn't work" lol Who's the fan boy now? Perhaps you could look into why digital out on M-Audio doesn't work, when people have been recommending this card with Linux?
Everything works in XP. So for Linux to be used it has to work better, and currently it doesn't. Crashing installing drivers/Linux MCE doesn't make it look very appealing.
I do have another soundcard that is supposed to work with Linux too, but the output is higher than SPDIF standard so will blow my av pre-amp (it has already)
squiffy said:Or you can press F4 and choose VGA mode ie 1024x768. You can then install, and update drivers once you're in. No problems with ATI X300 or X1900XT that way.
I had to figure that out myself. IMO linux forums are pretty much useless, as people don't reply leaving you stuck.
"Figure it yourself" seems to come to mind.
marc2003 said:lol. i just went to the noob section and there was a sticky topic for ati users and that just said download the alternate cd....
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=414194