[SATLUG] Video Drivers

[Geoff]

Donguitar wrote:
> If Ubuntu doesn't play nice with your system, try PCLinuxOS.   If that
> doesn't work for you then continue down the list of top 10 distros until you
> find one that does (I've heard some awfully nice things about Mint).
>   

My server runs SuSE 10.0.  I have downloaded and burnt iso's for mint, 
knoppix, whax, and Ubuntu.  Tried RH -way- back when, in the 7.0 days...

Mint left a -bad taste- in my mouth.
Knoppix just works.  And it works on any and everything I've got.
Whax is Whoppix on Slacware.  Live CD worked great.
Ubuntu just wouldn't play nice.  I don't know if was a hardware issue or 
a display problem.  The system -did- finally load on the 2.2GHz / 1gig 
ram machine, but after punching up Firefox (iceweasel, whatever) and 
going at it -once-, when I tried to pop it open again, on the live-cd, 
it would -not- come up.  Sorry... it simply refused to play nice. 
zzzzIIIIIIIiiinnnnnnggggggggggg, there goes THAT cd flying!

> Page hit rankings for the last 30 day per Distrowatch
> 1 PCLinuxOS
> 2 Ubuntu
>   
been there, done that
> 3 openSUSE
>   
doing that, currently (since version 7.0, in fact)

> 4 Fedora
>   

RH - Been there

> 5 Mint
>   

Puh-tooie

> 6 Sabayon
>   

That's a new one on me.

> 7 Slackware
>   

Whax/Whoppix

> 8 Debian
>   
Knoppix and Ubuntu are Debian based, aren't they?

> 9 MEPIS
>   

heard of it, not tried it.

> 10 Damn Small
>   

Thinking seriously about DSLinux on a 350MHz machine as a firewall.  The 
equipment is hanging around, doing nothing.. might as well put it to 
use.  I've got some 2-gig drives laying around here, still...

>  My wife finds Etch to be user friendly and
> intuitive but she's a PSP (8.1) wizard and we can't get PSP to run under
> wine.
>   

Consider yourself lucky.  Ubuntu simply wouldn't work here.  Period.

>
> Come around here talking about Windows being user friendly, or Linux not
> being ready for the Desktop you better wear your clown makeup and bring a
> rubber chicken so we'll know you're joking.  Otherwise it'll be ugly and
> don't say I didn't warn you.
>
> :)
>   

Last time I checked, this was still a free country and I'm still allowed 
to have my opinion, right?  ;-)


The Linux desktop is -not- ready for the masses... not if you still have 
to fumble around, search google for how to do something, go do it, and 
heaven forbid someone should have to know -one- password to get into 
their user account, but
<drama queen mode ON>
"Oh, my word!  Now I have to know a root password, AS WELL just to get 
something changed?"
</drama>

I'm telling ya... the linux desktop gui ain't -quite- there for the 
common user.  Knoppix is damn close, though!

For the record I: 
I don't consider my self a 'common user'. :-)

For the record II:
my *dual* PIII 550 CPU system (that I got from Jeremy Mann) with nearly 
a gig (784Meg) of ram, wouldn't load Ubuntu.  The 2.2GHz machine w/1gig 
of ram did -not- *completely* load Ubuntu.  If -you- got it to work on a 
450MHz, more power to you!

--
-Geoff