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rrinc -
Joined: 24 Feb 2006 Posts: 725 Location: Arkansas, USA
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 3:12 am Post subject: I Switched My Desktop to Ubuntu! |
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I just made the switch to Ubuntu from Windows (have a Dual boot config, but I'm running Linux). I'm surprised how far Linux Distros have come since I last used one, I knew they were good...but this is really good! So, with a little prior use of Linux, I feel fairly comfortable.
I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 (the latest) and I enabled effects (Compiz Fusion). All this transparency and stuff isn't nearly as slow as it would have been on Windows, I'm very surprised. If I can get my games running on WINE, I'll probably stick with it.
I recommend all of you running Windows try it.
Some cool things I've noted with Ubuntu:
Reads NTFS drives/partitions fine
Runs pretty smooth (I have an AMD Opteron 1212, 1GB ram, NVIDIA GeForce 6600 - I'm using Gnome and have Compiz-Fusion effects set to normal)
I love the customization Linux Distros provide.
So, anyone else here running a Linux Distro?
Also, if anyone is interested in how I didn't lose my Windows drive, I had about 80GB of unpartitioned space and installed Linux on that (I didn't have to do any tricky/dangerous partition resizing). And GRUB (or maybe Ubuntu does this) added Windows to its list of operating systems. _________________ -Blake | New Server :D
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bprsk8r4272 -
Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 124 Location: Rochester, NY
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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i'll be using ubuntu soon on one of my laptops i just gotta figure out if theres a driver or something for integrated wireless _________________
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rrinc -
Joined: 24 Feb 2006 Posts: 725 Location: Arkansas, USA
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Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:47 am Post subject: |
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I'm not sure what your specific hardware is, but Ubuntu seems to have pretty good out of the box support. My wireless card and sound works out of the box. _________________ -Blake | New Server :D
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