linuxinsider.com — After nearly five years, I needed to update my personal computer. My old Dell Inspiron has long since been rendered quaint by advances in processor speed and hard drive capacity. Rather than buy a new machine running Windows Vista or take the Mac plunge, I decided to walk the open source walk.
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culytAug 28, 2008
Most of my Ubuntu installs have been painless.Did you run into specific driver problems>Normally hitting next a bunch of times is enough (Dualbooting is a bit more work but not a whole lot with the automatic repartitioner's that work around NTFS).
culytAug 28, 2008
I have more driver issues with Windows than Linux, Linux actually supports more hardware.The problem is that the very latest hardware might not be supported out of the box, this is also a problem for Windows to some extent but on Linux its more of an issue because that hardware generally won't include a nice cd Linux compatible CD.If your system is older than the latest release of a distro (many are released about every 6 months and different times for different distros) then you generally won't have issues unless its some fairly obscure hardware. If you have a bleeding edge system then you can run into problems,although in many cases its generic enough that there aren't problems and if you don't mind getting your hands dirty you can try and upgrade your kernel.☢
theaceoffireAug 28, 2008
If you post it more than once, it becomes spam... Just fyi.
jellygraphAug 28, 2008
If it wasn't for the fact that I have an iPod, I would be pretty pissed off that I couldn't play my music on my MP3 player of choice. It kind of locks you into buying an iPod forever more.Fortunately, I'm happy with my iPod, so I don't really care too much, but in principle, its wrong... and Apple had already promised to stop with the DRM. I'd still use iTunes if they did, so I don't see what they are so scared of.
maxmwoodAug 28, 2008
Linux diggers need to get the message, sure you hit the frontpage but you still only got 266 Diggs so far and it hit the frontpage 8 hours ago. You know what I mean?
ouzeAug 28, 2008
I think the best part of this story was that an editor at "LinuxInsider" magazine couldn't get his wireless to work properly at home, and never figured it out so uses an ethernet cable.Congratulations, Linux, on 17 years (and running) of failing at basic tasks that windows 98se could do, such as being compatible with a wireless protocol from 1999.
armitage2kSep 4, 2008
If this author could not get a CD to boot on his Dell Inspiron, does he really need to be using a computer, much less Linux?
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