might give Linux OS 2007 a go - Page 4

28-02-2007, 23:17

lol and this one aint gonna change in a hurry

The Jackal · 28-02-2007, 23:18

LOLz Nice come back

Tezcatlipoca · 01-03-2007, 00:46

I've been dual-booting XP & Ubuntu 6.10 GNU/Linux for a few months now.

Very happy with Ubuntu, so far.

Only things which didn't work straight away for me under Ubuntu were my wireless connection (the default driver for my card wouldn't support WPA), & file sharing. The wireless problem was sorted quickly using a guide on the Ubuntu website, while the file sharing problem is still being worked on (almost got it working thanks to help from CrC-3rr0r via a thread here).

The Jackal · 01-03-2007, 05:06

About bloody time n all. I'm fed up of having to pay the microsoft premium thats always hidden in the cost buying a new laptop.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02...nux_computers/

01-03-2007, 08:39

You should be able to buy pcs / laptops with nothing on in the mainstream. My laptop come bare. First thing I would do with a preinstalled pc with back up is wipe it and do it my way anyway

c1rcle · 01-03-2007, 08:59

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

You should be able to buy pcs / laptops with nothing on in the mainstream. My laptop come bare. First thing I would do with a preinstalled pc with back up is wipe it and do it my way anyway

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who insists on having a blank hard drive when I buy a pc.

01-03-2007, 09:06

well I dont buy complete pcs but if I did .........

AntiSilence · 01-03-2007, 17:14

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

well I dont buy complete pcs but if I did .........

Yeah, same here. I got a Toshiba laptop which was pre-installed with all manner of junk. Loads of things starting up when Windows did, loads of icons in the system tray. Had to go! Formatted and did a fresh install of XP.

I *hate* having tons of icons in the system tray when Windows boots. I don't mind apps that put one there while I'm running it, but everything these days seems to want to run on start-up even if it serves no purpose to do so.

Xaccers · 01-03-2007, 17:31

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

but dont come crying when the system is unusable to you after you do

Or when you reach the realisation of "oo, well, it's pretty and everything, but other than browse the internet, use openoffice and watch DVD's illegally after a load of hassle (or have they finally included the license with distros?), what use is it?"

The Jackal · 01-03-2007, 17:42

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

Or when you reach the realisation of "oo, well, it's pretty and everything, but other than browse the internet, use openoffice and watch DVD's illegally after a load of hassle (or have they finally included the license with distros?), what use is it?"

LOTS Gave up faffing around with windows today as it just couldnt play HD clips correctly or smoothly so I thought I'd try it in linux...

I was more than impressed I got upto 1080 on my supposedly lesser speced linux machine.

01-03-2007, 18:09

my pc plays hd fine

The Jackal · 01-03-2007, 18:26

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

my pc plays hd fine

Plenty types of hd about mate. What format did you try / codec and what software did you use to play it with ?

Also do you know if you're using hardware acceleration at all

01-03-2007, 18:31

just tried a load of hd trailers at various res with no difficulty

Tristan · 01-03-2007, 18:36

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Originally Posted by luckybleeder

Let's not mention that you have to rely on Windows dll's for such basic things such as mp3 and avi

No, you don't.

Virtually all Linux media players use the ffmpeg codecs for multimedia decoding. This is the same set of codecs that are in VLC and Media Player Classic (amongst other things) on Windows and Mac.

Until recently, you had to use Windows DLLs to view WMV9 (only -- earlier Windows Media versions were supported by ffmpeg). But there is now an open source decoder included in ffmpeg, and there is a closed source GStreamer decoder (based on source code from Microsoft) is available for sale for about a fiver IIRC.

Zinglebarb: why be so unpleasantly negative about Linux? If it's not your thing, then that's fine, but to be honest I'm surprised and disappointed that an experienced poster such as yourself finds it necessary to "contribute" to a thread like this several times saying nothing but "I think it's crap". Grow up.

The Jackal · 01-03-2007, 18:47

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

just tried a load of hd trailers at various res with no difficulty

As I say PLENTY of different types of HD formats - just because it says HD doesn't mean anything specific. HD can be NTSC and vice versea too.

Don't worry about it you don't know.

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Originally Posted by Tristan

Zinglebarb: why be so unpleasantly negative about Linux? If it's not your thing, then that's fine, but to be honest I'm surprised and disappointed that an experienced poster such as yourself finds it necessary to "contribute" to a thread like this several times saying nothing but "I think it's crap". Grow up.

Awwwwwwwwwww leave him alone let him keep searching for his Holy Grail machine the one he keeps raving about - That Windows x64 that he found really smooth and fluid.

Don't worry we have it already

(Unfortunately it runs linux)