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  • TheFaQQer
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    Eh? Maybe not 8 but 7:
    Sorry - yes I meant in the latest release.

    Ubuntu has now been running for 4 1/2 days with no crashes, so will be going to some flavour of ubuntu soon.

    Thanks all.

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
    No 64 bit support yet.
    Eh? Maybe not 8 but 7:

    x64 Edition

    Note: This edition isn't available for Linux Mint 8 yet. This is Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" x64 Edition.

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  • TheFaQQer
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    WHS +1.
    No 64 bit support yet.

    Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View Post
    You sure you don't have a hardware issue? Best best is try a live CD on Linux, you can download a live CD of Ubuntu or Mint. Mint is based on Ubuntu so has all the goodies and extra multimedia bits. If you like it then install and your off.
    Last I checked, Ubuntu had been running for over a day and a half with no crashes, so between 2 and 3 times better than Windows 7. Will check again when I get home tomorrow or Wednesday.

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  • lilelvis2000
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    You sure you don't have a hardware issue? Best best is try a live CD on Linux, you can download a live CD of Ubuntu or Mint. Mint is based on Ubuntu so has all the goodies and extra multimedia bits. If you like it then install and your off.

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
    Try out the Mint 8 Live CD before commiting to Ubuntu, as I mentioned before it's Ubuntu based but much better all round.
    WHS +1.

    I actually run Debian Lenny on my laptop but for that you do need to know some command line stuff, not really a beginner OS. I try installing all the latest releases of each major Linux distro and they all work in different ways. My major gripe at the moment is the window manager. I like KDE but the latest versions cause too many crashes or are too slow and not all that intuitive so I've been playing with Gnome recently.

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  • Cliphead
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    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
    As a quick update - I've now been running Ubuntu live CD on this machine for 1 day 11 hours 7 minutes (and counting) with no crashes. There was no way I got that out of Windows 7.

    Also, Ubuntu has now automatically recognized two of the three monitors (hasn't picked up graphics card 2 yet), so the worst case scenario seems to be that I'll have to struggle by with 2 monitors rather than 3.

    Will leave it running for a few more days before I go for a real install, but from here it seems to be working OK.
    Try out the Mint 8 Live CD before commiting to Ubuntu, as I mentioned before it's Ubuntu based but much better all round.

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  • TheFaQQer
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    Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
    YMMV
    Obviously, it does - hence my original post detailing the volume of crashes I get from Windows with my normal and standard hardware.

    Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
    Not saying that Windows is perfect, but it's way ahead of the competition, due to resources avaiable.
    YMMV, but if you have an OS that keeps crashing, then it is somewhat behind the competition, regardless of the resources available.

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  • TheFaQQer
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    As a quick update - I've now been running Ubuntu live CD on this machine for 1 day 11 hours 7 minutes (and counting) with no crashes. There was no way I got that out of Windows 7.

    Also, Ubuntu has now automatically recognized two of the three monitors (hasn't picked up graphics card 2 yet), so the worst case scenario seems to be that I'll have to struggle by with 2 monitors rather than 3.

    Will leave it running for a few more days before I go for a real install, but from here it seems to be working OK.

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
    Not saying that Windows is perfect, but it's way ahead of the competition, due to resources avaiable.


    Shame Windows doesn't have an integrated spelling checker like OS X - although of course MS wouldn't do that, as it might affect their revenues from Office. Not that the Office spelling checker helps when using non-Office applications.

    That's one of the main problems with Windows: MS still see the OS as something to do with the computer rather than the user. As long as they persist in this attitude, their technology will continue to be inferior by design, whatever their intent.

    To return to the original question: a friend of mine swears by Ubuntu for everything. However he works for Canonical (who produce Ubuntu) so there's a possibility that he's not entirely unbiased. Still, he'd been using Ubuntu for a number of years before he was hired by Canonical. More to the point, his wife and children have also been using it perfectly happily.

    YMMV, IANALG, UART, YHBT, HAND, MSDOS, YWHNB, and all that kind of thing

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  • Board Game Geek
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    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
    Thank you for your valuable input. Call me picky, but I'd like a system which doesn't keep crashing throughout the day, when not doing very much hard work. I didn't buy a quad core system with 8GB of RAM to go through multiple blue screens each day, thanks.
    YMMV, but I've had very little trouble with Vista, and virtually no crashes.

    If there was a Linux which I could install out of the box, with no need for any configuration, and which would work with all my weird and wonderful hardware, then perhaps, but I somehow doubt it.

    Not saying that Windows is perfect, but it's way ahead of the competition, due to resources avaiable.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    Linux to me is something to host your server with, any time I have played about with the desktop I think "that is why Gates is rich"

    I would use ububtu as that is what I use for my servers. They are all pretty much the same really.
    Gates steals his GUI ideas for Windows UI from the windowing software that Unix-based and Linux operating systems use. (Try using KDE )

    Also Ubuntu is aiming to capture the netbook market and then the desktop market rather than the server market.

    RedHat, SuSe and CentOs are aimed more at the server market.

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Get a Mac. A big one.
    You want fries with that?

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  • DimPrawn
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    Get a Mac. A big one.

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  • Addanc
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    Originally posted by administrator View Post
    Prawn and RC highlight important points though, any Linux distro is still a little way from being a stable Desktop OS...
    I've got to disagree, I've had it on the desk top for years with no problems. On my dual boot laptop, I haven't got Vista service pack 2 to install successfully yet (comes back with some crappy generic error code); good job that the only thing it gets used for is MS Word for a quick CV format check.

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  • Addanc
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    Originally posted by chicane View Post
    Are you sure you don't have some kind of hardware problem?
    WHS.

    With regard to graphics openSUSE defaults to using the open source graphics drivers; if you have an nVidia or ATI graphic card there are proprietary drivers available. With the nVidia card it's just a matter of adding the nVidia repository to access the driver (simple); I presume the ATI people do something similar. Intel hardware also has good support since they supply loads of code for their silicon. I purchased my first set of SuSE disk @ 5.3 circa 1998 (still using the 6x CD disk box), consistently good distro.

    openSUSE 11.2 (KDE 4.3) tulips all over Windows and MAC

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