03 Jan 12
Originally posted by thaughbaerI remember a friend of mine having serious problems with Ubintu he had installed on a notebook he got with an on contract notebook. I'm not sure though if the problems were with Ubuntu or my friend. Bit of a n00b.
For home use I'll throw Ubuntu into the ring.... I got fed up with packages being too out-of-date on Gentoo... and version migrations were a pain in Fedora... fire up the flamethrower
Downloading ISO and ready to rock. Maybe I should check the HCL first...
03 Jan 12
Originally posted by CrowleySounds good. Will I be able to tell if there are any driver issues from the live CD's? That's my main concern.
Download a bunch of them, burn the ISOs onto discs and try out the 'Live CD' versions. This way you can check out if it fits for you and only install the one you love.
This seems to be a pretty good list: http://livecdlist.com/
03 Jan 12
I recently made the switch, i'm using Ubuntu 10.4 I guessed that because it had long term support that it would be pretty stable and user friendly. I am a complete beginner but I now have my laptop running how I want it.
This was a helpful list of instructions to get me moving:-
http://techhamlet.com/2010/03/after-installing-ubuntu/
03 Jan 12
Originally posted by cadwahLooks good. Addresses my security concerns. Cheers for that.
I recently made the switch, i'm using Ubuntu 10.4 I guessed that because it had long term support that it would be pretty stable and user friendly. I am a complete beginner but I now have my laptop running how I want it.
This was a helpful list of instructions to get me moving:-
http://techhamlet.com/2010/03/after-installing-ubuntu/
04 Jan 12
Originally posted by jimslyp69Of course you will, the OS will be running in memory.
Sounds good. Will I be able to tell if there are any driver issues from the live CD's? That's my main concern.
Saying that, you should be able to see any common driver issues - not sure what peripherals etc. you have that needs weird drivers. I'm not sure if you can install packages in Live CD Mode - probably not.
08 Jan 12
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I'm on ubuntu (11.10), many (including me) don't like their unity interface though - good news is one can grab hold of gnome very easily. As for installing flash I remember trying this directly from the adobe site when I was on 10.10 and it was annoying - probably easier to just open a terminal and sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer