Yes its still debian, all references have been removed (12.10 opps not
LTS my bad!!). Older versions of ubuntu like everything it takes time
to iron the ussues. but - once bitten - twice shy. Yes agreed Nvidia
still needs installing post install. on my own laptop I elected to go
Kubuntu as I dont like Unity work a treat - did have some issues with
resolution but a quick mess with Xorg.conf sorted that.
I do see Mint ontop these days, but thats from an enthusiasts point of
view - move to/from a distro to other is easy enough. I would still
stick with Ubuntu, the advantage is the huge forum and the community as
extremely helpful, fedora is a stable platform but always found
compiling extras a problem, libraries missing. But if you want a
desktop to play with then this would suit as well.
Like the old MickySoft and UNIX sage - we hate windows, so does the
distro argument, not every distro is right for the job and some are just
pants, but for the most part Debian flavours and Rehdat you cant go
wrong. At the end of the day theres a time consuming test - get the
live distro and see if your hardware is picked up and you can configure
it - if you can then you have your answer which to go for.
Enjoy.
Phil
On 10/12/2012 15:15, David Aizenberg wrote:
I use Arch linux, and have mint on netbook.
Mint with its cinnamon seems a LOT more adequate than this unity thing
(Yes, i don't like unity).
By the way, ubuntu is not debian squeeze anymore.
It has too many canonical patches and edits.
For some weird bug, whenever i try ubuntu, the only way to install
video driver(nvidia) is the .run file from website.
if i use built in tool to install driver, ubuntu just fails to start.
My personal experience with ubuntu after 8.10 is awful, too much BS
happened.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Ben McRae <bmc...@me.com
<mailto:bmc...@me.com>> wrote:
I use KDE personally, but having used both Gnome and Unity (Unity
being a Gnome stack), it's quite intuitive to new users, and has a
large community for support (I know other distros do too).
Ubuntu 12.04 is the LTS, not 12.10.
Haven't tried mint :(
Ben
David Aizenberg <pixelsh...@gmail.com
<mailto:pixelsh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
From personal experience, ubuntu is big pile o' crap :(
Never worked good on neither of my computers.
Fedora is oriented at new users too, and it comes with gnome 3
instead of that 'unity';
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ben McRae <bmc...@me.com
<mailto:bmc...@me.com>> wrote:
For beginners, good suggestion would be Ubuntu, comes with
transmission.
Ben
gary smith <gazwebdes...@msn.com
<mailto:gazwebdes...@msn.com>> wrote:
Iam trying to introduce my friends son linux he does a lot of
downloading can anyone suggest a linux disitro that has
software for p2p, torrent file downloads
many thanks in advance
Gary
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