apcmag.com — It's out love for Ubuntu that I'm being so harsh. Look where we're at -- 7.04, a number of significant releases since 4.10 Warty three years ago -- and it still can't manage the display properly. And that's just the start.
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rbanffyApr 30, 2007
Well... The guy is retarded, but I still want to set up my multi-headed desktop from my 945GMA-based notebook, to have a better text mode during boot (25x80 does not cut it) and my Broadcom wireless card to simply work (with WEP and WPA).Multi-head is essential with notebooks, specially when you do presentations.
billmarrsApr 30, 2007
I tried the new 7.04 Ubuntu on my newish Dell Laptop, and it froze up after not recognizing the video card and getting a lot of errors at startup. *shrug* I also tried it on my Desktop (3700+ with a 7800gx). I got a garbled logo screen and no apparent way to proceed (it may also have froze up, but in a different place). *shrug* Curiously, a previous version of Ubuntu did work. Though, I found it way too orange.I run Fedora on 4 server machines. I love Linux, used it for many years; I rely on it. But, I'm still not seeing much reason to stop using Windows for my desktop. Most of the users of my website use Windows/IE, so it's generally best for me to use it too, so that I see what they see. *shrug*
jqp123Apr 30, 2007
"I switched to linux to "learn" more, not for a user friendly experience."I drive a 1948 Oldsmobile for the same reason ... to learn about cars and besides, "It's Smart to own an Oldsmobile"<a class="user" href="http://www.adclassix.com/ads/48olds.htm">http://www.adclassix.com/ads/48olds.htm</a>Mine has a carburetor with manual choke and needs to be tuned weekly. I'm so proud of the "skill" I've developed just getting it started on cold winter mornings. Some day; when we figure out how to turn back time and the 1948 Oldsmobile takes over the highways, I'll really be ahead of the game./sarcasm
megatog615Apr 30, 2007
boondoggle: Ironically that's where the famous "RTFM NOOB" comes in handy.Please, READ THE f**kING MANUAL.
Closed AccountApr 30, 2007
I'm curious to know what video card those with this resolution problem have? I experience this early on with an ATI X600 Mobility, but the last two versions of Ubuntu's Xorg implementation worked great.
firehedApr 30, 2007
You'd rather your OS not take advantage of every byte of RAM in the system? I don't know about you, but I'd rather keep stuff in RAM than be reading it off the hard drive that's two orders of magnitude slower. Free RAM is wasted RAM. I don't use any Linux distro so I can't judge it, but my short experience with Vista is that it's nearly as bad in that department as XP. OS X is much better (in my experience) about using the resources available. Having said that, filling that RAM with superfluous background processes is just as bad as not using it at all, if not worse, as your anecdotal evidence would suggest (although I'd put that more to some sort of different approach to hardware acceleration than anything else, since a bit of extra RAM isn't going to suddenly let you handle six times the bandwidth)
kenryu974Oct 15, 2007
why trashing windows and keeping linux ... what's the great different ... for some people with enough intelligence, who chose to installl linux and make it work properly, just know that it will just work. Windows, you don't know when it will crash. It's like a plane.I say that by experience, before that i knew Linux, every month i reinstall windows. I was young, so just know that i just play games, i didn't have internet. With XP, i had internet but still crashed everytime, this perpetual blue screen telling you : "Windows got an unknown error that you, normal user or experienced user can't solve". On linux, if it works, it will still work years after. If you crash your linux, don't you think that it's about the user and not the system ?Thanks to think a little, to really try each of the system to avoid stupid bulls**t.