occy8
March 28th, 2005, 09:43 AM
A little reflection
I downloaded Ubuntu Hoary about a month ago, burned the CD and of it went.
The install was easy just one weird error message on the first boot, but screen, sound, USB mouse, Cd, USB-memory worked fine. Then came the USB-ADSL modem - shock horror, it took almost a week to make the bastard work, thanks to the community here and eciadsl. My ISP was part of the problem being really helpful. "Sorry linux is not supported" was all they said when asked for configuration details.
Next was the USB Lexmark printer. First google searches for a driver came back with results like "Lexmark? forget it, they won't work", but after a few hours I found one driver and it worked like a dream. Next task getting multimedia to work, again with some help it was relatively easy. Itwas just a matter of swapping Totem gstreamer for xine. Now its just a matter of getting used to the Gnome UI. I used to work with Openoffice and Gimp in Windows, so no problems here.
Windows is still there but downgraded to Wintendo :grin: Haven't used it for anything else for a week now and don't think I will ever again.
I played with other Linux distros before but this is the first to achive this goal
WELL DONE UBUNTUS
I downloaded Ubuntu Hoary about a month ago, burned the CD and of it went.
The install was easy just one weird error message on the first boot, but screen, sound, USB mouse, Cd, USB-memory worked fine. Then came the USB-ADSL modem - shock horror, it took almost a week to make the bastard work, thanks to the community here and eciadsl. My ISP was part of the problem being really helpful. "Sorry linux is not supported" was all they said when asked for configuration details.
Next was the USB Lexmark printer. First google searches for a driver came back with results like "Lexmark? forget it, they won't work", but after a few hours I found one driver and it worked like a dream. Next task getting multimedia to work, again with some help it was relatively easy. Itwas just a matter of swapping Totem gstreamer for xine. Now its just a matter of getting used to the Gnome UI. I used to work with Openoffice and Gimp in Windows, so no problems here.
Windows is still there but downgraded to Wintendo :grin: Haven't used it for anything else for a week now and don't think I will ever again.
I played with other Linux distros before but this is the first to achive this goal
WELL DONE UBUNTUS