phoronix.com— The story of how one porn and virus infested computer running Windows goes from being ready to hit the trash can to running Ubuntu and all of the problems going away in no time at all.
Oct 28, 2007View in Crawl 4
Been using Linux on and off for about 8 years now. Ran Gentoo for awhile, finally went back to Debian. Tried out the newest Ubuntu, and could not even get to the installation screen, just a black screen. Luckily, I was persistant enough to go through the text-only screen. But, since it goes to graphical screen logins on new installation, I had the same black-screen problem. Worked it through a night, doing recovery console to fix up the xorg.conf file, finally got it working. Well, everything but my dual-screen setup.Then I gave up when gnome kept crashing every time I clicked the "shut down" button, hard-rebooted into my year-old windows partition that I haven't had issues with through it's entire tenure, and continued getting my work done in an efficient manner. Others have other experiences, I've had mine, so I'm still sticking to Windows XP until I can find a stable Linux distro that doesn't make me edit config files in text mode. Ubuntu's a good start so far, but it ain't perfect.
A little of both. One, him, for letting his sister have admin rights, and two, Windows XP, for encouraging you (and in fact many programs wouldn't work otherwise) to use an administrator account for everything.
gerikesOct 28, 2007
Been using Linux on and off for about 8 years now. Ran Gentoo for awhile, finally went back to Debian. Tried out the newest Ubuntu, and could not even get to the installation screen, just a black screen. Luckily, I was persistant enough to go through the text-only screen. But, since it goes to graphical screen logins on new installation, I had the same black-screen problem. Worked it through a night, doing recovery console to fix up the xorg.conf file, finally got it working. Well, everything but my dual-screen setup.Then I gave up when gnome kept crashing every time I clicked the "shut down" button, hard-rebooted into my year-old windows partition that I haven't had issues with through it's entire tenure, and continued getting my work done in an efficient manner. Others have other experiences, I've had mine, so I'm still sticking to Windows XP until I can find a stable Linux distro that doesn't make me edit config files in text mode. Ubuntu's a good start so far, but it ain't perfect.
Closed AccountOct 28, 2007
Well linux users do. Their idea of porn are pics of Torvalds!
logtarOct 29, 2007
The article says nothing about Pr0n at all, and half of the people commenting here did not even read it. LOL
Closed AccountNov 2, 2007
Yeah, and they would just come back. Note that this isn't the first time he's had to clean up after him.
Closed AccountNov 2, 2007
A little of both. One, him, for letting his sister have admin rights, and two, Windows XP, for encouraging you (and in fact many programs wouldn't work otherwise) to use an administrator account for everything.