Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (19 Viewers)

[V]

really! im surprised! i thought the H\w u guys(americans n Europeans) get 3 years ago is NEW to us now!

Us Europeans? HA! Maybe on the atlas we are, but for everything we're still just the Balkans. I mean I'm over-reacting, it's not so bad here, but we're still far behind from bigger European countries.

 

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[Sheik Yerbouti]

Us Europeans? HA! Maybe on the atlas we are, but for everything we're still just the Balkans. I mean I'm over-reacting, it's not so bad here, but we're still far behind from bigger European countries.

i see...

Acer generally is pretty good! agree with the value for money comment! and if im correct, they're the only company here that give laptops with Linux installed by default!

 

[Chxta]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6506027.stm

 

[V]

So I bought the Acer and I'm thrilled with it. It has great specs, 2gb DDR2, Turion 64 x2, 120gb HD, GeForce 7300 but most of all an amazing 17" LCD widescreen display. The resolution is 1440x900 and it's simply a joy to watch anything on it. The label says "Acer CrystalBrite: Brilliant LCD performance" and believe you me, they ain't kidding, it's really fantastic.

The laptop came with a preinstalled Vista Home Premium which once again proved me how shite Vista is. Performance wise Vista is a pain in the ass, applications do start faster than they do in XP but basic things like file copying between partitions is horrible. It's a bug I tried to resolve but failed miserably. In the end I installed one of my favourite apps for Windows Acronis True Image, a version which was supported by Vista, and wouldn't you know it, Vista wouldn't boot anymore. The Vista literally lasted less than 24h.

So I went on to try out Linux for an hour and installed Kubuntu. The installation was so damn fast I almost fell off my bed, performance wise it was a hell of a lot faster than on my PC(you know I complained about KDE and Kubuntu being sloooow). I couldn't keep Kubuntu on it because I had to install XP and all the business stuff on it.

I'm really thriled with this laptop and I'm glad I bought it, it's like you guys said, you really get good value for your money. Acer is fine by me.

 

[JCK]

It's good to know but such a shame that you didn't keep Kubuntu on it.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

prolly he's saving it for Kubuntu 7.04!

 

[Chxta]

@ Vlatko.

 

[Zambrotta]

I've now decided to take the step to Ubuntu. Will the installation be as easy as it is with windows, where you pretty much just put in the cd and then it does a all the work for you?
Do I have to think about drivers and such? Is there anything I should know before I start it?




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[Rami]

I've now decided to take the step to Ubuntu. Will the installation be as easy as it is with windows, where you pretty much just put in the cd and then it does a all the work for you?
Do I have to think about drivers and such? Is there anything I should know before I start it?




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Even easier than Windows! You would be amazed. A 5 minute install.

Hopefully you won't find any problems with drivers, if you do, I am pretty sure there is a solution. Just share it with us and we will try to help

 

[V]

@ Vlatko.

Could you be a bit more specific?

 

[Martin]

I think what he means is "how can you bring yourself to waste such sweet hardware on Windows?!!?!?????"

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I've now decided to take the step to Ubuntu. Will the installation be as easy as it is with windows, where you pretty much just put in the cd and then it does a all the work for you?
Do I have to think about drivers and such? Is there anything I should know before I start it?




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the only hardware incompatibilility i experienced was that my stone-age Serial mouse wasnt recognied...a simple xorg.conf editing did the trick. other than that...NOTHIN!

why dont u wait till Ubuntu 7.04 comes out? it's just weeks away!

 

[Zambrotta]

the only hardware incompatibilility i experienced was that my stone-age Serial mouse wasnt recognied...a simple xorg.conf editing did the trick. other than that...NOTHIN!

why dont u wait till Ubuntu 7.04 comes out? it's just weeks away!

Actually I'm sitting on 6.06, which was sent to me by regular mail. Is that a too old version do you think?
Is it really worth the wait, I'm really eager to do this NOW!

 

[Rami]

Actually I'm sitting on 6.06, which was sent to me by regular mail. Is that a too old version do you think?
Is it really worth the wait, I'm really eager to do this NOW!

Go for it man, your first installation will need to be replaced after some time any ways...after all the tweaking and testing you are bound to ruin something

 

[V]

Go for it man, your first installation will need to be replaced after some time any ways...after all the tweaking and testing you are bound to ruin something

Yeah, I think I reinstalled Linux like 200 times in the last year.

 

[JCK]

I am now running my 30th? (something like that) Linux installation since I started using the system, and that was somewhere in December.

 

[Zambrotta]

What, 30th?!

I do not have time and will to reinstall my OS every other day. I'm having second thoughts already.

Anyway, an early problem. I can't start the installation, the .iso file is mounted in Daemon tools. But when I restart the computer it just starts windows again.

 

[JCK]

Of course, you should burn it on a CD and boot from the CD. Daemon tools will not get you anywhere.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

What, 30th?!

I do not have time and will to reinstall my OS every other day. I'm having second thoughts already.

Anyway, an early problem. I can't start the installation, the .iso file is mounted in Daemon tools. But when I restart the computer it just starts windows again.

burn the iso onto a cd! the rest of the installation shud go smoothly! or else, we're always here!

 

[Zambrotta]

Crap, I don't have any cds.

But still, why do you have to reinstall it so often? Is it really necessary?