Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (23 Viewers)

[V]

vlat: the flash plugin sucks in opera. I get framedropping and opera starts to choke more often than not. Somehow Firefox copes better.

Are you by any chance implying FF is better than Opera?

Seriously though, I've noticed no problems with flash and Opera in PCLOS. Worked like a charm.

 

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[Sheik Yerbouti]

vlat: the flash plugin sucks in opera. I get framedropping and opera starts to choke more often than not. Somehow Firefox copes better.

but still, after the handful of distros i've tried, it's most stable in PCLOS. it was never stable in Ubuntu. sure, FF handles it better... waaaaaaaaaaaaay better i'd say, but the browsing experience i find in Opera is irreplaceable!

 

[Martin]

but still, after the handful of distros i've tried, it's most stable in PCLOS. it was never stable in Ubuntu. sure, FF handles it better... waaaaaaaaaaaaay better i'd say, but the browsing experience i find in Opera is irreplaceable!

I see, maybe it's ubuntu then.

For what it's worth my browser usage is now 70% opera 30% ubuntu. Sadly that's necessary to work around opera bugs.

 

[Rami]

Lots of lossless music.

Stay away from Gentoo, if you simply can't, just install Sabayon. Don't listen to what Martin says.

Actually listening to Martin was one of the best things I did, when it comes to Linux


So any initial impressions on Gutsy? Here are mine:

1-Touchpad worked out of the box on my laptop, didn't work on the previous two versions, kernel hacking was required.

2-Just love how compiz is enabled by default, however there was no way I could configure how it behaves, only three levels (none, medium, full) of eye candy. Which is kinda stupid. You will need to install an extra package (can't remember the name, but it has compiz and setting in it USE TAB )

3-My Linksys wireless card on my desktop didn't work at all, I needed to install ndiswrapper. I wrote up a howto, check my blog

4-Quick switch works great, gotta love it. Even though it didn't appear on my desktop which was upgraded, while I fresh installed on my laptop.

5-I still have to test some hardware that didn't work by default. i.e webcam and AV converter.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

So any initial impressions on Gutsy?

yeah.. the damn thing didnt install at all!!! i did MD5 check... even verified the cd while burning it... it stops at 28% and says read error from cd... and the damn CD looks brand new!!! wtf!!!

 

[gray]

So any initial impressions on Gutsy?

1. Installed smoothly

2. Compiz not enabled by default since I'm using Kubuntu, which always seems to lag behind Ubuntu when it comes to the new features

3. Wireless works perfectly, finally comparable to Windows (as much as I hate to say it)

4. My external HDD didn't (and still doesnt' work). I get the cryptic error "permissions denied" when I try to access it.

5. Codec installation still involved manually downloading the w32 codecs and extracting them into /usr/lib/win32. Maybe there's a better way built-in, but that's still too much work if you're aiming at the luddite community.

 

[Rami]

1. Installed smoothly

2. Compiz not enabled by default since I'm using Kubuntu, which always seems to lag behind Ubuntu when it comes to the new features

3. Wireless works perfectly, finally comparable to Windows (as much as I hate to say it)

4. My external HDD didn't (and still doesnt' work). I get the cryptic error "permissions denied" when I try to access it.

5. Codec installation still involved manually downloading the w32 codecs and extracting them into /usr/lib/win32. Maybe there's a better way built-in, but that's still too much work if you're aiming at the luddite community.

As for the HD, some tweaking in fstab is probably nessecary. If its just only that disk and you don't use it as often I would just do a chmod everytime I plug it or better yet a "kdesu konqueror"

Codecs installed automatically under Ubuntu I just double clicked on a media file and i got a prompt to install gstreamer codecs....Flash also on FF.

 

[gray]

PCLOS or Mint?

 

[V]

PCLOS or Mint?

PCLOS, prepair for a performance boost compaired to Ubuntu.

Mint is just Ubuntu in a green skin.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

my Ubuntu installation didnt work cos my DVD drive's screwed!!! so i wont have to throw that cd anyways!

 

[Rami]

PCLOS or Mint?

Gentoo

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Gentoo

XP

 

[Martin]

So the linux phenomenon is a funny thing. I go to school with a bunch of fairly bright and knowledgeable people, in the general domain of computers. But when it comes to linux there is very little skill here. Most of them run Windows (wtf), some have Macs. Now, there seems to be some curiosity about linux, cause I've seen a bunch of people run Ubuntu on their laptops, but it's evident that they just installed it cause all the settings are default and all that. And they complain about these really simple things like omg compiz not enabled by default, how on earth do I change that.

In short, you guys are who've been playing around with linux for a little while (especially those who only have a few months exposure to it) are like gurus in comparison, you could open a shack on campus and sell support.

One guy I spoke to said he was disappointed because "linux was supposed to be user friendly" and I say "well in some ways it is, it depends on what you expect" and he goes "I expect it to work just like windows". I mean d'oh.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

One guy I spoke to said he was disappointed because "linux was supposed to be user friendly" and I say "well in some ways it is, it depends on what you expect" and he goes "I expect it to work just like windows". I mean d'oh.

dont u just fele like knocking their head off with a golf club or sumtin?

 

[JCK]

It's not the place to thread to post screenshots but here you go

 

[V]

Damn, it's so stylish.

 

[Rami]

Hey thats me in the taskbar


hi me

Edit: Line up the icons on the top ffs!!

 

[JCK]

Rami, the emerge expert. Can you solve this problem?

I am emergin VLC and I get this at the end:

*
 * ERROR: media-video/vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071022 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *                        ebuild.sh, line 1696:  Called dyn_compile
 *                        ebuild.sh, line 1034:  Called qa_call 'src_compile'
 *                        ebuild.sh, line   44:  Called src_compile
 *   vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071022.ebuild, line  308:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *      emake || die "make of VLC failed"
 *  The die message:
 *   make of VLC failed
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071022/temp/build.log'.
 *

 * Messages for package media-video/vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071022:

 * USE=skins requires truetype, skins will be disabled.
 * USE=cdda requires cdio, cdda will be disabled.
 * USE=bidi requires truetype, bidi will be disabled.
 *
 * ERROR: media-video/vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071022 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *                        ebuild.sh, line 1696:  Called dyn_compile
 *                        ebuild.sh, line 1034:  Called qa_call 'src_compile'
 *                        ebuild.sh, line   44:  Called src_compile
 *   vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071022.ebuild, line  308:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *      emake || die "make of VLC failed"
 *  The die message:
 *   make of VLC failed
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-0.9.0_alpha20071022/temp/build.log'.
 *

 

[Rami]

Maybe this could help:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=528772

I never faced this problem.

Anyways whats funny is that when I just tried to google this problem, google.com momentarily didn't work, so I thought lets try Microsoft's live.com. The results for "emake || die "make of VLC failed" were as silly as "e-makeup" and "makeups and relationships". A minute later, google spewed out 4 pages vlc and gentoo

 

[Rami]

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/135591/bbc-admits-massive-underestimate-of-linux-users.html