micjustmic
January 1st, 2006, 02:24 AM
Hello everyone, just wanted to introduce myself.
I'm Mic, just spent the past 3 days on dial-up downloading Ubuntu after spending several months fighting with Fedora Core 3, then Core 4 on my Intel based machine, and I have to say, after only a couple of days using it, I'm impressed, and very happy.
It installed just fine, sound card (well, the on board sound, anyone that has a Sound Blaster X-Fi knows we're still out of luck with that) installed, video was just a few APT-GET commands away for my Radeon X700 Pro AGP and everything works, including OpenGL.
Let me tell you, after what I put up with using Fedora . . . first of all, even doing a custom install and only installing exactly what I wanted I still had to swap out all four CDs, and still ended up with a bloated OS full of crap I didn't want/need.
I must point out that my first attempts at Linux were using Gentoo, and after several failed attempts at getting a GUI installed properly (and then finally getting one installed) I decided to try one with a real installer, packages included, blah blah . . . Fedora was suggested to me, I'd like to strangle that guy! It was easier to set everything up by hand with Gentoo, in my opinion.
When I did get everything working correctly with Core 3 I made the mistake of installing Core 4 . . . my sound went away, as did any OpenGL . . . and it seemed no amount of work on my part could get it working again.
Okay, fine, I'm new to Linux, but I've been dealing with computers since DOS 2 and the days that if you didn't have DOS your computer would boot into some form of BASIC, and hard drives were the size of small washing machines and cost thousands of dollars for a couple of megabytes. I'm no shlub, I have a degree in electronics and computer operation/repair, but I just couldn't get it working properly.
Now, Ubuntu . . . right out of the box everything works just fine. I like APT MUCH better than YUM, and the GUI that Ubuntu provides is nice too, searchable and again, right out of the box it works.
Color me happy, and I hope not only can I find help here, but wish to provide some, if I can.
Mic
I'm Mic, just spent the past 3 days on dial-up downloading Ubuntu after spending several months fighting with Fedora Core 3, then Core 4 on my Intel based machine, and I have to say, after only a couple of days using it, I'm impressed, and very happy.
It installed just fine, sound card (well, the on board sound, anyone that has a Sound Blaster X-Fi knows we're still out of luck with that) installed, video was just a few APT-GET commands away for my Radeon X700 Pro AGP and everything works, including OpenGL.
Let me tell you, after what I put up with using Fedora . . . first of all, even doing a custom install and only installing exactly what I wanted I still had to swap out all four CDs, and still ended up with a bloated OS full of crap I didn't want/need.
I must point out that my first attempts at Linux were using Gentoo, and after several failed attempts at getting a GUI installed properly (and then finally getting one installed) I decided to try one with a real installer, packages included, blah blah . . . Fedora was suggested to me, I'd like to strangle that guy! It was easier to set everything up by hand with Gentoo, in my opinion.
When I did get everything working correctly with Core 3 I made the mistake of installing Core 4 . . . my sound went away, as did any OpenGL . . . and it seemed no amount of work on my part could get it working again.
Okay, fine, I'm new to Linux, but I've been dealing with computers since DOS 2 and the days that if you didn't have DOS your computer would boot into some form of BASIC, and hard drives were the size of small washing machines and cost thousands of dollars for a couple of megabytes. I'm no shlub, I have a degree in electronics and computer operation/repair, but I just couldn't get it working properly.
Now, Ubuntu . . . right out of the box everything works just fine. I like APT MUCH better than YUM, and the GUI that Ubuntu provides is nice too, searchable and again, right out of the box it works.
Color me happy, and I hope not only can I find help here, but wish to provide some, if I can.
Mic