I tried Vista but Linux will only do

[Papa6]

the last two days, I installed and tinkered with the Vista OS and that damn thing is broken. I called MS and tried to get telephone support to help me. You install web assist, a MS online app that runs through IE but allows the tech to access remotely your PC and find the problem. Vista's reporting tool that tells you EVERYTHING. it says my AMD64 3700+ CPU was a reason for poor performance, my RAM and SATA drive. Basically...hey dummy, get a new PC. Why? this one still rocks. I don't need the hassle of a stupid report that's only going to tell me to buy a new PC. my advice; IF you buy a new PC, then get the Vista with it. but got an old PC like 6 months or older? keep XP or move on to Linux.

didn't work. So i deleted my Vista install and went to Suse linux 10.1. It runs great and i have had no issues. UBUNTU linux seems to be the Linux flavor of choice these days, but when I tried to install it, i found that the old Vista install really made it difficult to change my partitions for some reason. I have like 8 different distobutions of linux here and one was bound to get around what Vista did.

But my favorite Linux flavors are, UBUNTU/KUBUNTU and OpenSuse10.2/Suse Linux 10.1.

But Debian should do well for ya since UBUNTU is using the Debian linux system anyway.

[firefly2442]

I Ubuntu.

Hehe, yesterday the computer club that I am in made a cantenna. Basically, it's a soup can modification that extends the range of a wifi link. We were excited to try it out but after booting up Vista, there were no drivers available. No problem right? Just go to the website and download them. Well, it turns out none of their products have drivers for Vista yet... so... no wireless. I'm bringing in a liveCD next time to test it out.

[ROCO*AFZ*]

the last two days, I installed and tinkered with the Vista OS and that damn thing is broken. I called MS and tried to get telephone support to help me. You install web assist, a MS online app that runs through IE but allows the tech to access remotely your PC and find the problem. Vista's reporting tool that tells you EVERYTHING. it says my AMD64 3700+ CPU was a reason for poor performance, my RAM and SATA drive. Basically...hey dummy, get a new PC. Why? this one still rocks. I don't need the hassle of a stupid report that's only going to tell me to buy a new PC. my advice; IF you buy a new PC, then get the Vista with it. but got an old PC like 6 months or older? keep XP or move on to Linux.

didn't work. So i deleted my Vista install and went to Suse linux 10.1. It runs great and i have had no issues. UBUNTU linux seems to be the Linux flavor of choice these days, but when I tried to install it, i found that the old Vista install really made it difficult to change my partitions for some reason. I have like 8 different distobutions of linux here and one was bound to get around what Vista did.

But my favorite Linux flavors are, UBUNTU/KUBUNTU and OpenSuse10.2/Suse Linux 10.1.

But Debian should do well for ya since UBUNTU is using the Debian linux system anyway.

Odd... my P4 3.0ghz with hyperthreading socket 478 + 2gb of ram (PC3200) on an asus board with a seagate 120 sata says it's a 4.2. Processor was the only thing making it a 5, and it runs GREAT in Vista. My Video gets a 5.9 which is the highest and it's only a 6800GS, and for sound i have an x-fi music. My report says my pc is fine.

Heck my work PC is only a 2.6 on the rating but it runs aero fine... and i'm running Windows XP in a virtual PC for tech support.

Your Amd may be the lowest component in your pc... but it's not the reason for your problems. I would venture to say a hardware/driver issue is hosing you up.

Either that or amd has there numbering sceme messed up as your 3700 should = a 3.7ghz p4 am i correct?

As for linux... if any of my customers ever ask about it... i may have to load it, but until then... Vista works fine for browsing the web which is all i would use linux for anyway.

[Papa6]

I'm using the latest opensuse 10.2.

I just installed the nvidia drivers for it and can easily give the how to to do it

go to yast> software> installation source

then click on the "add" button and add;

OPENSUSE/OPENSUSE AMD64

Protocol: HTTP

Server Name: : download.nvidia.com

Directory on Server: /opensuse/10.2

Please Note: this 10.2 opensuse driver is the latest. there are others but please see the nvidia linux "howto" at http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html to look up the Linux flavor of your choice.

Ubuntu folks need to use the console" apt-get" to install from my recollection. and to upgrade the drivers in the future, go to yast>software>online update and change in the upper left change the drop down box from whatever the default is to "installation sources"(hense the download.nvidia.com server..remember?) and click on the "installation sources"and a dialogbox will show the nvidia server just under the drop down box and select the server address and just to it's right in the next box will show the latest drivers. select all, there were 3 when i did it and then the system will download the files, install then save the configuration. i suggest you reboot. when the boot screen gives you choices like opensuse10.2...son on...click on the nvidia kernel and you should have the 3d drivers working upon final boot up.

[firefly2442]

If you know what you are doing and know the packages and programs that you need, the installation of Linux and upgrading+installing the latest programs is extremely easy with most distributions. Pretty much all the major package management systems are fantastic about getting dependencies and so on.

For example, when I was first learning about apache I tried installing it under Windows. I downloaded the installer, ran it, then had to figure out if I wanted to install it as a service, then edit the configuration file. Installing PHP was even harder because I had to copy some files around and edit my Apache config file in order to add PHP functionality.

In Linux under Debian systems you do:

sudo apt-get install apache2

sudo apt-get install php5

and it grabs all the dependencies and it's running. That's really easy. But... you have to know how the package management system works and what good software programs are out there. This is something people new to Linux probably would not know.