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 Jan 4 2009, 10:58 PM
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QUOTE(Ron Wolf @ Jan 4 2009, 01:41 PM)  QUOTE(CrutchyT @ Jan 2 2009, 03:11 PM) It said I'm best suited for Windows 98. WTF?  Hoo ha ha. Good one.Did you see the news re. MS laying off 15,000 folks! Nice of them (really) to wait until after the holidaze. From the outside its damn hard to tell what those teaming thousands at MS are actually doing. I mean how could they top Vista??? Anyway folks, I'm finally going to try moving away from Windows. I had been thinking of trying a Linux flavor (duh) with Ubuntu seemingly a good choice on one of the netbooks. The quiz gave me a wide selection of choices - kubunto, ubuntu, Mandriva, & openSuSE. As well as Fedora and Debian if I feel like stretching out a bit. From a post that I sent to a friend who I will lean on for help.... in particular i was thinking of getting one of these: http://www.amazon.com/10-Inch-Netbook-Inte...056&sr=1-10 with Linux and giving it a go. the screen is a bit small. but i like the idea of a solid state drive!! then again some of the reviewers point out that there are problems with the drive as its actually two drives and the 2nd partition seems to be a slower technology.... this part of the product description is very amusing "Linux operating system, which is useful for users who desire task-based icons and an easy point-and-click interface. Well suited for children or users without any computer experience" i think the only issue will be what to do with all of the various .msg files that i have stashed in folders. open office and thunderbird should take care of most of the rest of what i do. what an optimist, eh? or this one is only $350! http://www.amazon.com/10-Inch-Netbook-Cele...5056&sr=1-5 except that it seems to have gone unavailable right as i was shopping for it???> sort of odd that the product description doesn't match the actual product. amazon can be pretty messed up. in fact, just in the last few moments, they changed the search results and i can no longer find the systems that i had been looking at.... or perhaps a netbook i speced at dell. the dell has more vertical pixels and the thing is larger. also more expensive. even tho Dell isn't as good as they once were, they are still pretty good. the laptop that i am using is over 5 years old, has traveled a lot, and is still fine (knock on wood). Wow, that's a lot of people. It's a shame, too. Those 15,000 are the same ones who created Crystal Pepsi, and built upon the very same groundbreaking innovations in transparency from 15 years ago to create Aero for Windows. They're a real talented bunch. As much as I love Widows 98 (The quiz was right!), I'm going to try Wubi on for size sometime this week. It's a version of Ubunto that can be downloaded, opened up and closed, installed and uninstalled in Windows like any other application. It's specifically designed for Windows users who are looking for a no-fuss, non-invasive way to try Linux. If I like it, I'll move onto another version-the quiz recommended most of the same versions of Linux to me (after Windows 98, of course) as it did to you. Warning: A friend of mine tried openSuSe for her first Linux, and I guess it ran all sorts of ghost programs on her computer amongst other things. She grew to hate it so much that she actually went back to Windows XP (I'm gonna recommend 98 to her). It's also the only one of the distros that someone on this thread said didn't work on their comp. I also considered that first Asus, too, after a friend recommended it to me over the summer. I guess the industry was all abuzz about because it has some serious battery life, up to 6 hours worth, but I eventually went in the opposite direction and got a big, honking 17 inch, 7 pound HP. It's my first computer and I love the big, clumsy bastard.  HP also puts out a mini with Obuntu, I believe. I mention that because I heard, just as you said, that Dell, though still a reputable company, has started to skimp a bit on the more popular models, specifically the 1525. It only got 3 stars in user reviews on the Best Buys website, the lowest I saw when doing my research. I've handled one myself, and they look and feel a bit plastic-y, whereas HPs are are elegantly designed and feel solid. Whether the same quality problems extend to the Mini-9, I'm not sure, but if I had to choose, I'd go with an HP or Asus, just to be safe. If I remember correctly, Asus actually pioneered the mini-market, and their success is the reason why everyone else has followed suit with their own lines of minis. Besides, as long as you're trying a different OS, why not try a different brand, too?Sorry, I've never shopped for any tech on Amazon, so I've got nothing on that. Anyway, good luck with whatever you choose, and I hope you'll share your share your impressions of Linux; it would be good to compare notes with a fellow virgin, er, I mean noob, sorry. You gotta be careful with the term "virgin" in a computer geek forum. This post has been edited by CrutchyT: Jan 4 2009, 11:57 PM |
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Feb 10 2009, 05:01 AM
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lol what do you know, it said that Kubuntu and OpenSuSe were just right for me-it got that part right, I do like them both, however I actually liked ubuntu a lil more (first time ive ever liked a gnome more then a KDE version) so it wasnt totally accurate I guess, it said i was perfectly capatible with mandriva or fedora to, but Ive never tried mandriva and had bad experience with fedora. eeek im not going into that right now. though it gave me a link to another type that i want to try, linuxmint, that looks like it might be fun. :D
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Feb 25 2009, 04:04 PM
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Ubuntu! Here I come!
Thx for the test, big help. 
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Mar 12 2009, 08:20 AM
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High, ok it told me Suse, I downloaded Suse but I am a little unclear about how to install. I downloaded onto my current PC, I was wanting to burn to disk and run on an old PC, but I wanted a dual boot system. I read somewhere I think Linux . org that I should reinstall windows and partition how I want and install Suse on remaining HD. OK, but Suse site also said to burn the ISO images not the files. How do I go about doing that? I mean if I open the files on my current system wont they attempt to run? Also, Do I really have to re-install windows? The PC I am installing on is already partitioned and anything on the 'D' drive is OK to be overwritten. Thanks for any help you can give on this. BTW, your test was very accurate I had already picked Suse prior to taking test and it gave me same results.
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 Apr 25 2009, 09:53 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 28-March 09 From: Fairburn, GA Member No.: 314,059 |
I took the test and it recomended the following;
Now, I have everyone of those distros except for Linux Mint. I liked what I saw about each one of those distros "except Linux Mint" but when I try to load either of those distros "except Linux Mint". I like Unbutu, Mandriva and OpenSuse. But have not decided which is my preference. Will know when I take the time to evaluate each one. To bad I don't have multiple live CDs for them all just like Ubuntu.
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Nov 3 2009, 08:20 PM
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The results were: kubuntu, fedora, ubuntu, suse, and debian.
Funny. I'm using FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Debian Lenny currently. |
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