considering linux

[UnkAsn93]

oh, like i said, I'm a n00b and i am not sure about this linux with distros.

 

[UnkAsn93]

I don't know why you find it a pain to navigate, the window navigation system is very similar to Windows - I accept that the file system layout is a little less intuitive in terms of folder naming, but it's quick to pickup if you do some figuring. Admittedly drivers are less easily configured (you need to get used to command prompts (known as Terminal)), and their hard-wiring into the Kernel is difficult at times, however it is done for a good reason. The branching of drivers under Windows causes instability where in Linux the drivers have direct access to the Kernel, which in turn makes them more difficult to design but also more stable and highly efficient. What's more the now more common availability of drivers for Linux made by the manufacturers is adding to the stability and usability of the driver structure.

hmph. Maybe I'm just too used to windows? I've been on it since 3.1 and I'm still on it till Vista!

With my 10 hours of Linux compared to 10+ years of Windows...then yeah, It'll be hard to adapt to something new. Kinda like when you move from one school to a new one...

 

[v-zero]

hmph. Maybe I'm just too used to windows? I've been on it since 3.1 and I'm still on it till Vista!

With my 10 hours of Linux compared to 10+ years of Windows...then yeah, It'll be hard to adapt to something new. Kinda like when you move from one school to a new one...

I found it a little odd initially, however it's quite a satisfying system once you pick it up.
To answer your earlier question about Sabayon, it is its own distrobution, however it is based largely on the Gentoo codebase (Gentoo is another distro compiled directly from the Linux Kernel source) and is based on the Portage package management system, which makes it a little slower at installing programs, but also quite a lot faster at running them...

 

[Solaris17]

if you dont mind tom i can break it down though you may already know some of this so im in no way insulting your IQ


distros=distributions

distributions are the different OS's

Gentoo, Suse, Overclockix, Fedora, elive

are all different distributions and are all different OS's

though ever distro is different the source code is usually very similar between them the source code like windows makes up the kernel.

the kernel is the core component to the OS

now though their are thousands of versions of linux their are only a few different kernels as these are open source they can be tweaked to build new versions of linux off of. which is why their are so many their are a few code bases (kernels) that are used the most.

these are

Debian
Knoppix
ubuntu
Gentoo
RPM
Fedora
Red hat
Slack ware

etc etc

all of which have their own version

for example with the gentoo code base their is a gentoo linux with the fedora code base Fedora etc...

also though linux can infact have a few glitches when first installed and if your new they seem to come at you even faster unlike wondows which is built to support multiple platforms linux while installing adjusts options and packages(software bundles) to fit your machine like a glove. That in itself makes it not as bloated or slow as you may think over the years with new ways of detection linux has become exremely fast. infact linux is used in over 500 of the worlds super computers.

that and unlike wondows which will need a reinstall if you screw up the system files if you manage to break linux you can DL a new kernel via update or command line to get your distro working tip top in no time

hope that helps.

 

[UnkAsn93]

Downloading Sabayon right now!

 

[20machinm]

I installed ubuntu anyway even before the first reply to this post. Still have to get my head around the file system but other than that its great. Boot times reduced, stuff loads instantly. I've learned a lot just plugging away over the past 2 days. Having a great time as well with some Quake engine games.

 

[Wile E]

Ive tried the raid on every intel mobo ive had back to 875p, along with linux not supporting my raid it dont support-Lan-cdrom/dvdrom-wireless. When you have to edit the install to get it to see a cdrom somethings wrong. Then you edit it to make it see your raid and it dont have any options in setup for raid just choose a drive it doesnt raid them just puts the seperate. Now after 4 hours of editing everything to get linux installed guess what- no drivers now you can spend another 4 hours on each driver you want to see if you can figure out how to get it to install.Oh thats on another machine also because no internet on linux remember no lan or wireless support. But after that you have a windows 95 install thats taking up space and doesnt do anything, wait, I like win 95 better I had internet. ALLEN

I have Fedora 9 installed on my RAID0 array on my ICH9R controller, and I didn't have to configure, change, type in the command line, or anything at all except click on the partition I wanted to format and install on. It's on the same array as both of my Windows partitions, and my NTFS formatted storage partition. I have full access to all partitions, and all I had to do to be able to read/write my NTFS partitions is click a few checkboxes in a settings gui.

I also had wired internet without touching anything. Once I enabled a 3rd party repo (Livna), in which all I had to do to enable it was download and double click an rpm file, I was able to install the nVidia driver via the "add/remove programs" application.

All this while never once touching the command line.

The level of difficulty depends strictly on the Distro you choose.

 

[AlmicheV]

Have been looking into Linux for a few days now. I use my pc for digital art, video editing and very light gaming (alien vs predator - and thats it). Which version would be the best and the most straight forward?

 

[johnnyfiive]

I love gaming, messing about with my pc(nothing too technical).

Getting tired of winows b*llsh!t (who isnt?)

not 100% sure if I can switch to linux - can someone give me sum useful info. also are gfx card rivers available for linux?

Cheers

This is what is going to happen if you want to game on a linux box:
Dual boot, that would be my best advice. Linux for learning Linux, Windows for games.
As for the best distribution for Linux newcomers, I suggest Ubuntu, Mandriva or Open SuSE.

 

[zithe]

Windows + virtual machine + linux = nice, easy, and effective. My friend and I both do our gaming in safe mode. XD
For gaming go for SuSe. I hear it's really easy to configure. Next in line would be Ubuntu (7.10, avoid 8.04) and Fedora core 8 (not 9, no 3d acceleration yet).

 

[Wile E]

Windows + virtual machine + linux = nice, easy, and effective. My friend and I both do our gaming in safe mode. XD
For gaming go for SuSe. I hear it's really easy to configure. Next in line would be Ubuntu (7.10, avoid 8.04) and Fedora core 8 (not 9, no 3d acceleration yet).

Fedora 9 has 3D acceleration for nVidia. Not sure about ATI at the moment tho.