Re: Me and Linux, round 4 and a half
 

Hi. Quick question. I have tried Suse10.2 and I'm curious about Ubuntu.
For a general, well informed newb like me(Mac user), do you have a preference between those two?
I have one spare comp and wanted to commit to a Linux Os for it but I am torn. Suse is nice and well presented with both Gnome and KDE but I have had a few problems with it and am curious if Ubuntu is better put together and ready to just 'work'.

Re: Me and Linux, round 4 and a half
 

Come on..

Use kedit, gedit?

1)
Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Change
default 0
to
default 1 (if the second stanza is your windows)

2)
Or use a grub GUI
http://www.qt-apps.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/60391-1.png

That was hard..

I bet it was a hardware problem.
Same here,
Blame the hardware people for doing windows-only driver.. Hardware has to be reverse-engineered by hackers to make it work when companies do not give specifications of their product. Not Linux fault.

I remember the time when I was hunting for drivers for my old printer for windows 98. Never found one, it was only available for windows Me or later..

Re: Me and Linux, round 4 and a half
 

hp is doing great on drivers these days. i have a hp home network printer hooked up over ethernet to my linux box as we speak.

Re: Me and Linux, round 4 and a half
 

Same for dells

I think lexmark are a pain.

Re: Me and Linux, round 4 and a half
 

lexmark is a pain even on windows, unless they have stopped shipping their "talking" printer interface now...

Re: Me and Linux, round 4 and a half
 

Hmmm... My wife has an HP box with pre-installed XP Media Center edition. I wanted to install a retail version of XP Pro on it because I could not get rid of all the crapware that HP had also pre-installed.

When I asked HP for copies of their drivers for XP, they refused.

So, this driver problem is not just a Linux problem anymore.

I understand that Vista vs. XP is a driver nightmare too.

My conclusion: never buy HP anything ever again and move to Linux as at least there is a community of developers out there who are trying to make drivers for almost every piece of hardware.

Added later:

I have been looking at configuring a new Dell box for my first Linux machine and I must say that I felt quite comfortable with what I found - lots of information about what I can expect to work under Linux (Ubuntu). The pre-configured Ubuntu boxes were not very interesting, but that is true of the pre-configured XP Dell boxes too.

Re: Me and Linux, round 4 and a half
 

hmm, you didnt check hp.com? they seem to have a lot of drivers for download there...

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Yes, and I spoke to HP support and was on their forums. Carly sure f**ked that company over.

I no longer care, the machine works well enough and I spent far too much time on it already. If it (Windows XP/MC) gives any more trouble then I will restore the original software and just sell the system while it is still fairly current. Putting Ubuntu on that box is not an option as my wife needs XP for her work.

Re: Me and Linux, round 4 and a half
 

If you'd ever used TextPad, you'd understand. In its prime, nothing repeat nothing could touch Textpad.

I've seen several articles discussing Linux editors for Textpad users who migrated. All of them say the same thing: there's no equivalent, so live with it.

(Now it's got unicode issues and is useful only in certain tasks for me.)
I must be good at painting myself as a shlub. :-)

Of course I trued a Grub GUI, and of course I tried making the change directly.

Whatever prevented these approaches from working, I don't know. I spent hours working on this, fiddling with files and looking for more info on the web. But what should have worked, didn't.

But thanks for taking the time to help straighten me out.

Roger

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hmm, cant say i have tried textpad, but looking at the screenshots im reminded of kate for kde. dont know about a feature comparison tho as for me kate is overkill for most of my text related stuff, same as openoffice writer is...