ihavenoname
May 13th, 2006, 11:13 PM
Heres the deal, I used Ubuntu a while ago (actually about a few months.) and It seemed to work well. My first distro was Fedora and I dunno something about the feel of fedora got me hooked. But I couldnt get certain things working I later tried Linspire it worked but was too slow...so I went back to windows. One day my friend told me about Ubuntu, so I went ahead got the cd tried it and it worked. But i couldnt get wireless, so i stared asking on the forum and looking around, eventually I got wireless working on both Ubuntu and Fedora. and thats when my problems began. You see I had this strange attachment to Fedora, and yet I really liked the Ubuntu forums. So it was that I could not decided which distro to use and a distro hoping festa began. I tried Linspire again, Xandros, Mepis, Vector, Arch, Mandriva, Suse, Fedora 5 and Ubuntu Dapper as well as some others. Needless to say I wasted many Blank cds, and after all that I am now stuck at 4 distros. Arch Suse Fedora and Ubuntu. Despite the fact that arch is easy to configure and mess around with it seems to be out of the question as it has become too time consuming and lately, it has not worked very well. Fedora is looking really nice, has become quite fast. But it sometimes has poor packages and despite the fact that from what I know yum has more features then apt-get and has a better output, yum is horrible it refreashes too much and can become rather annyoing. Suse looks very good seems to be well polished and well setup, only problem is from what I have noticed they dont seem to provide major updates in between releases for example if they realease it with kernel 2.16 and kernel 2.20 comes out they wont provide that update. Gnome is still 2.12. although this does make for a very stable OS. Ubuntu.....well...Looking at the features and the specs Ubuntu seems to be one of the better choices. In fact I acidentally deleted my FC5 partion and replaced it with Dapper the other day ( it was actually kind of funny if u ignore all my lost files...most where Fedora files anyways thou.) but there is one problem...I have not truly used Ubuntu much, Ive just set it up and tested things on it. But for some reason Ubuntu feels weried for me..Im not sure what it is I just feel..."off" using it.
So heres the delima: Has anybody transfered to Ubuntu from another distro and felt the same way in the beginging? Will it simply take a little getting used to? What do you all recomend I do? Can anyone at least help me narrorw it down to two distros...Im tired of distro hopping but it seems to me to be an addiction. I just get excited about the new features of a distro. Im currently getting BLAG Linux. but thats the same thing as Fedora essentially.
any advice or comments on anything from above is encouraged and welecomed.
p.s. Arch is now off the list.
So heres the delima: Has anybody transfered to Ubuntu from another distro and felt the same way in the beginging? Will it simply take a little getting used to? What do you all recomend I do? Can anyone at least help me narrorw it down to two distros...Im tired of distro hopping but it seems to me to be an addiction. I just get excited about the new features of a distro. Im currently getting BLAG Linux. but thats the same thing as Fedora essentially.
any advice or comments on anything from above is encouraged and welecomed.
p.s. Arch is now off the list.