I'm thinking of trying Linux

[boskysquelch]

Waste of time it uses a gui

If you want to screw your system up it has to be at the command line or dos

nah I'm in command of Terminal or cmd. n00b!

I am going to test drive it for a month and if its any good my partner wants me to put it on his aging laptop. It should hopefully breath new life in to it for him.

I'll throw you some worthy bookmarks for useful/further ref if you like?...and for an ageing lappy look at look at the tailored for such things eg xcfe,xubuntu or even !# http://crunchbanglinux.org/

 

[miniGMgoit]

nah I'm in command of Terminal or cmd. n00b!



I'll throw you some worthy bookmarks for useful/further ref if you like?...and for an ageing lappy look at look at the tailored for such things eg xcfe,xubuntu or even !# http://crunchbanglinux.org/

That would be great

 

[miniGMgoit]

haha
Just realised I don't have any sound
Sadly, so far, this doesn't look that straight forward to fix.

 

[stowpirate]

When I installed Ubuntu 8.10 it defaulted to mute!

 

[boskysquelch]

sudo lshw

^or get a GUI app of it...to look at the list of hardware you have to hand

depends on what you mean by take longer...but obviously look at the obvious in the OS first.

System>Preferences>Sound

or via

Double Clicking the Volume Icon to find the Device you are using and it's preferences...

some things are turned down/off so you don't go blowing your speakers the first time you decide to play shizzle...natch.

Do you get the Ubuntu drums/log out twaddle even? <<< the sound test on/off

 

[miniGMgoit]

I didnt but it came good in the end, just sort of started working for no reason. I heard the start up sound for the first time yesterday.
I'm enjoying it now I've set up. If someone were to come up to me and say they were going make the cross over from Windows to Linux I would first advise them to make sure ALL thier hardware is supported. My partner has one of those printer/scanner jobies and while the printer works fine (just plug in and play) the scanner has no driver. I'm sure there are complicated work arounds for it but not interested.
I do all my printing at work (cos its free) so no worries for me.
I have noticed that it works a whole lot smoother than any windows system ive used. Its very fast straight forward.

After 4 days of intense tinkering to set up I'm now at a place where I can just enjoy it.

My partner lasted 1 day on it though

 

[stowpirate]

I didnt but it came good in the end, just sort of started working for no reason. I heard the start up sound for the first time yesterday.
I'm enjoying it now I've set up. If someone were to come up to me and say they were going make the cross over from Windows to Linux I would first advise them to make sure ALL thier hardware is supported. My partner has one of those printer/scanner jobies and while the printer works fine (just plug in and play) the scanner has no driver. I'm sure there are complicated work arounds for it but not interested.
I do all my printing at work (cos its free) so no worries for me.
I have noticed that it works a whole lot smoother than any windows system ive used. Its very fast straight forward.

After 4 days of intense tinkering to set up I'm now at a place where I can just enjoy it.

My partner lasted 1 day on it though

Scanners like most driver problems in Linux are usually very easy to sort out. Copy the windows driver (usually a .bin file) onto the hard drive and then edit the appropriate configuration file to point to it.

All the problems in doing this are normally created by permissions making it frustrating for a Windows user who is used to drag and drop and double clicking on files to open them - this makes the command line look daunting. Anyway I always use Puppy Linux which has no issues with permissions to set up things in Ubuntu or other distros

 

[boskysquelch]

glad to hear yer having fun!

here's a Blog I use/refer to oft. http://xibex.blogspot.com/

 

[subversplat]

Srsly, Linux is a gateway OS. You'll be on lethal BSD next

 

[boskysquelch]

bosky@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get aLife
[sudo] password for bosky: 
E: Invalid operation aLife
bosky@ubuntu:~$