Windows or Ubuntu

[Terse]

DBAlex wrote:

Only Amiga makes it impossible to get a computer.

Love that!


I checked out Ubutnu a while back, it was a hassle to get the pen gesture and accelerometer funcitons of my tablet to work right.  I went back to XP and am very happy.  Have not tried Vista, would have to hack it too much to get aero to work.

[adolescent]

@amigadave

Why not just check the SHA1?  No use making any coasters.

@DBAlex

Looks like a standard Gnome desktop.  Turn on the Emerald and Compiz Fusion!  :-D

[DBAlex]

adolescent wrote:
@DBAlex

Looks like a standard Gnome desktop.  Turn on the Emerald and Compiz Fusion!  :-D

It is on! I just don't like the bouncy windows thing... All it has atm is subtle transitions when you open menus, close windows etc... also it has transparency on window titles when windows lose focus. :-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

DBAlex wrote:

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

DBAlex wrote:
I've been trying ubuntu off and on since the 5.10 Breezy Badger release but 8.04 is just amazing  :-D .

I haven't encountered anything amazing as for yet. I hoped for UDF cd handling, and proper OpenGL support for my video card. I'm *QUITE* disappointed in that. :-(

Which video card do you have?

Intel 915GM
There actually is OpenGL support, but it's extremely slow. (while it's fast on Windows)

[adolescent]

@Speelgoedmannetje

Check to see if direct rendering is enabled/working (using glxinfo).  Also, do you have mesa installed?  Is the DRI option (and configuration section) set in your xorg.conf?

[Speelgoedmannetje]

adolescent wrote:
@Speelgoedmannetje

Check to see if direct rendering is enabled/working (using glxinfo).  Also, do you have mesa installed?  Is the DRI option (and configuration section) set in your xorg.conf?

Everything checked, direct rendering is enabled, DRI and mesa installed. Tis just a bug, I recently read it'll be fixed in Ubuntu 8.10.

[swift240]

Well I dumped XP for Ubuntu 7.10 then upgraded to 8.04 it does all what I want it to do.
No nags, no anti virus, no spyware, no firewall (behind a router)

Faster more memory left over.

I am still messing around with the configuration its really good, I can do more with this than XP.
One of the better things is the display bars top and bottom of the screen I can have them any size I want, XP you can have either small or large and thats it.
Ubuntu 8.04 is as it stands now better than XP for what it can do.

When I load XP in it will take a time for all to get up and running, but Ubuntu it don't a few seconds and thats it ready to roll.

And the choice I get from the Add/Remove is very god indeed not to mention the Synaptics manager.
And its all FREE you don't pay a huge wedge to get it like Windows.

Mike.

[motorollin]

Really glad you went with Ubuntu over XP and that you're enjoying it. Ubuntu is a really nice OS, and my second choice only to Mac OS X ;-)

--
moto

[swift240]

Well to be honest I only went with XP because I did not know about Linux and its many OS types.

Now I see there are many Linux type OS out there DreamLinux is another nice one.

But my big thing is that its FREE and legal Ok dont get me wrong not JUST because its free but lets face it Linux these days is pretty damned good, and the software is also, like OpenOffice 2.4

I did not fully realize just how good Ubuntu is, I am still finding out about it.

Bye bye Microsoft, its time for you to go.

Mike.

[persia]

I really advise you to check all Linux distros, Ububtu is a Debian Linux, there are at least half a dozen other Debian distros out there that are common, plus the Fedora, Mandriva and other distros. No one distro works for everyone, I had Ubuntu running on a couple servers and found it didn't work for me, OpenSuse was a far better choice.