Personally after my experiences with Linux I wouldn't be sticking any distro on something I wanted to use on holiday. If something breaks who wants to spend the time sifting through forums to get it fixed?
Quote from: Paul B on February 04, 2010, 01:02:55 amPersonally after my experiences with Linux I wouldn't be sticking any distro on something I wanted to use on holiday. If something breaks who wants to spend the time sifting through forums to get it fixed?My thoughts exactly, which is why I detroyed that useless pile of toss and put windows 7 back on it last night.Honest to god, I spent 4 hours trying to figure out how get basic network connectivity with my NAS and by the time I managed it I was uttely fucking fuming.That's quite enough from Linux for me. I'll be sticking with operating systems that you don't have to build from scratch yourself.I'm still quite sore about the whole experience as you may be able to detect.Sorry slackers, I tried, but I'm just not interested enough in IT to dedicate the time required to get to grips with it. I just want it to work out of the box.
I would be careful about putting Linux in that spare space you have left. I did the same on my laptop running Win 7 and Linux I fucked up my MBR (master boot record) so I could only boot into Linux (Linux wiped all evidence of another OS residing on the hard disk). You then have to piss around in Grub or install EasyBCD to be able to dual boot Win 7 and Linux.
Yes it was my fault for assuming that Linux would be that little bit clever and detect another OS on the partition, I was wrong...
You know what they say about assume!
The point I was trying to make was for BB to follow a guide and not make the same mistake I had..
I'm continually amazed that people think computers should Just WorkTM
QuoteI'm continually amazed that people think computers should Just WorkTM Well it is 2010 now. We flew to the fucking moon fifty years ago.
For all the knocking of Linux that you do its worth bearing in mind that 99.9% of the work thats done on the kernel (the Linux part), the GNU Utilities (that form the base of a working system), the desktop environments and software that are available is done my volunteers for free and not by tower-blocks full of highly paid coding monkeys.
Quote from: slack---line on February 05, 2010, 03:20:25 pmFor all the knocking of Linux that you do its worth bearing in mind that 99.9% of the work thats done on the kernel (the Linux part), the GNU Utilities (that form the base of a working system), the desktop environments and software that are available is done my volunteers for free and not by tower-blocks full of highly paid coding monkeys.I heard the opposite on radio4 the other day, that it is heavily funded by major companies including IBM
Why dick around with linux when you can rely on Microsoft?Why bother with Medium Format/DSLR metering from a grey card when you can buy a P&S that 'just works'?
Why spend decades learning to climb grit when you can bear down in the cave of justice?
I'm continually amazed that people think computers should Just Work
grit climbing is a skill with wider applications.
Quote from: Jim on February 05, 2010, 06:17:31 pmQuote from: slack---line on February 05, 2010, 03:20:25 pmFor all the knocking of Linux that you do its worth bearing in mind that 99.9% of the work thats done on the kernel (the Linux part), the GNU Utilities (that form the base of a working system), the desktop environments and software that are available is done my volunteers for free and not by tower-blocks full of highly paid coding monkeys.I heard the opposite on radio4 the other day, that it is heavily funded by major companies including IBMSome of the main projects are such as OpenOffice, Apache, MySQL, but there are so many facets and levels where people aren't paid a penny and do it out of passion.
It was definately work on the main kernel that was being funded as well, so don't go throwing figures about like 99.99999% when your only guessing
ultimately I want it just to work so I can get on using it for the purpose for which I bought it.