Linux: oh god wtf am I doing?

[Bakurei]

I tried ubuntu on my laptop for a week and couldn't get the wlan working... And everything seemed to crash... Well atleast gave a huge load of errors all the time, might have been my fault.

I love when people complain about windows crashing and then say something else crashed it. If you get hit by a meteor do you blame your parrents for giving birth to you? My computer has crashed twice since the release of windows XP. First time I took the soundcard off the MB when the computer was on and during the second time my PSU fried.

 

[99.vikram]

I tried ubuntu on my laptop for a week and couldn't get the wlan working... And everything seemed to crash... Well atleast gave a huge load of errors all the time, might have been my fault.

Try PCLinuxOS. I've had many friends use it on their machines without any issues.

It's not as customisable as the power user distros but supports most features you might want. Plays media and stuff right out of the box, and supports all but the most exotic hardware.

Please FGS don't touch Ubuntu with a 10-foot pole. It's got weird permission issues (you'll never get the full flexibility of a root account).

 

[AtomicSpark]

You're an idiot. Using Root as your primary account kind of throws the simple, yet effective security model of Linux (and other *nixs) out the window. So much for viruses, spyware, and user errors not being able to effect your system.

 

[99.vikram]

You're an idiot. Using Root as your primary account kind of throws the simple, yet effective security model of Linux (and other *nixs) out the window. So much for viruses, spyware, and user errors not being able to effect your system.

Ubuntu never lets you run under a root account. It's the Mac of the Linux world.

Read it up yourself.

 

[PJ]

Ubuntu never lets you run under a root account. It's the Mac of the Linux world.

Read it up yourself.

it does allow you to be root temparerely - in terminal you type sudo and then the command to do it as root/super user. you have to enter the root passwaord which is the password you set up when you installed it.

 

[AtomicSpark]

It's actually your user password (if you're an Administravite Account) and not the Root one, since Root doesn't have a password.

it does allow you to be root temparerely - in terminal you type sudo and then the command to do it as root/super user. you have to enter the root passwaord which is the password you set up when you installed it.

And I like my Sudo, thank you for asking. It's like UAC for sane people. Oh and by the way, every other distribution has Sudo built-in, it's just not set up by default. Probably because most distributions are still focusing on being used as servers (and thus, log in as a normal user and use "su" to become Root). Did you even read the page you linked to me?

To the OP, check here [distrowatch.com] to see the Pros and Cons of each distribution. They're pretty accurate.

 

[Hazar]

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php?firsttime=true

 

[Barney Fife]

OK, for those of you off topic with Vista's pros and Cons, There's actually someone here who this thread belongs to, and he's asking our help, so please be courteous.

Since I pay my entire bills online, I like and use Ubuntu for online payments and regular surfing, and I like it. Still learning though, I know nothing about GUI, commands or anything that deep about Linux, but, I find Ubuntu most user friendly.

Good Luck.

 

[Bakurei]

I just got a "new" free laptop from my brother, HP Compaq NC4000 and I decided to install ubuntu on it, althou I got 1gb RAM in this non-beast, so running xp would be a option. Last time I tried Ubuntu (well Kubuntu), I got errors all the time, now I haven't recieved one. The latest build already had all the drivers set, only thing I had to do is enable the restricted drivers. So you guys with atheros wlan chips, check that those are enabled. On my Acer I gave up on wlan drivers, I couldn't get them working on a week.

The OS fees really nice to use, very user friendly. And since I got this for making notes in uni, I don't need support for games. Comparing to windows Ubuntus edge maybe that it has pretty much everything you need pre-installed. You get all the programs you need. Didn't even need to install any codecs! And maybe the best thing in Linux is the packet manager. Just find the program you need, install it and the packet manager will get everything you need for the program.

 

[kazsymonds]

Krynn, take a loot at wubi.

http://wubi-installer.org/

It's an installer for ubuntu that runs in windows.

It does a dual boot install for ubuntu for you, and installs it all properly.

You wont need to worry about messing around with the partitions and formatting etc, it'll do it all for you.

 

[Krynn72]

Looks handy. I didnt really have trouble installing it though. After having tried ubuntu for about a week, I just cant use it. I need my windows apps, and the emulators just dont cut it for most of the programs I need and everything was just so complicated to install things. Shake just wasnt worth the hassle. I'd rather just learn to use Nuke, frankly.