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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: The Spac on March 24, 2008, 11:32:09 am

Title: Going back to Linux
Post by: The Spac on March 24, 2008, 11:32:09 am

I havn't used Linux in about 3 years and instead of upgrading to Vista I am changing over to Linux esp since FS2O supports it.

What I need help with is some peoples advice on the current good desktop releases. I'm not looking for the most complex one at this time. If anyone can share their recent experiences with the latest ones and tell me if their good or bad before I do the download. :)

Title: Re: Going back to Linux
Post by: achtung on March 24, 2008, 11:37:22 am

I use Fedora (http://fedoraproject.org/), which I've had very few issues with.  It's usually fairly "cutting edge", and likes to avoid proprietary software.

One of the most popular distros is Ubuntu (http://ubuntu.com), which focuses on user friendliness and Windows to Linux conversion.

Title: Re: Going back to Linux
Post by: S-99 on March 25, 2008, 05:18:50 am

Yes definitely give ubuntu a try. If it's stable on your hardware, then use it, and hope that the next release is the same. Dapper, edgy, feisty, are all great. Then gutsy came along and shat on everyone's parade. If ubuntu doesn't end up getting the job done for you, then check out pclinuxos. It's way better than ubuntu. The main reason why you'd want to go with ubuntu is it's debian based and has a lot more packages in it's repositories than redhat does (a lot more). More packages in the repo makes for an easier to use linux distro.

If you're really good at linux. Then i'd recommend giving the debian testing net-install a download. Alsa-base, xserver-xorg, x-window-system, and kde (or other desktop environment of choice with a desktop manager) is all the ****ing **** you need to download in order to having a working pure debian install.  Apt-get install those 4 things and you have a successfully installed debian pure os. A pure debian testing net-install is what i'm using at the moment which really makes up for crappiness of ubuntu, lack of packages in pclinuxos repos, and the fact that backports with mepis sucks. Also, i'm not tied down to any major release schedule of debian. I'm on rolling-release. I install once, and upgrade into perpetuity (pclinuxos is the same way, ubuntu not so much, but they do let upgrade to the next from the currently installed old version of ubuntu (that's not rolling release at all for ubuntu though)).

Title: Re: Going back to Linux
Post by: The Spac on March 25, 2008, 08:20:28 am

Thanks for the tips

Title: Re: Going back to Linux
Post by: Mars on March 25, 2008, 09:59:21 am

You don't have an ATI card do you?

Title: Re: Going back to Linux
Post by: The Spac on March 25, 2008, 01:36:30 pm

Single Slot Gigabyte Nvidia 8800 GT 512MB

Title: Re: Going back to Linux
Post by: S-99 on March 25, 2008, 02:44:28 pm

that'll work great in linux.