[ale] thinking about switching away from ubuntu

[Richard Faulkner]

Marc --

I too run Nvidia GeForce and have a signal loss issue when using the
stock xorg.conf generated by the restricted driver.  I've had to
roll-my-own xorg file (which is okay with me) and am now reading with
interest the tread regarding KMS.

I've had many *headaches* with 9.10 but none of them major and all of
them nothing more than a challenge as I've made the switch for M$ to
learn Ubuntu.    (*Ubuntu?  I'm going to learn Ubuntu?* -- see "Matrix
Runs on XP" on Youtube...funny stuff).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM
Matrix Runs On XP

I've welcomed the tweaking and headaches as that's the best way to learn
the system inside and out.  I've been a Windows admin for 15-years now
and intended to be a Linux admin for the past 10.  Now that I've taken
the *red pill* I'm doing the rabbit hole thing and have a long way to
go.  

I'm running 9.10 on my desktop and Fedora 12 on my laptop and am
generally happy with both but both leave some to be desired.  But that's
why I've switched to Linux because I can change it to what I desire!  So
as much as I agree that Ubuntu has me sometimes thinking that I'm going
to try something else...all I have to do is boot my old x64 box and I'm
reminded of just how much I hate M$ and go back to learning to admin and
tweak Linux.  At least with a little tweaking I have 9.10 closer to
where I want it as opposed to x64 where I can't get it where I want
it...it doesn't do it.

My wife owns a Mac-mini (part of her recording studio) and it's okay for
what it does -- runs Protools LE and that's it.  She used to run it
online in days of old but no longer.  OS X is okay but man do I feel
like my hands and feet are duct-taped together!  (I'm with ya James!!!)
Talk about an OS for the masses who just want to use the thing and never
be able to do much with it (unless I'm missing something here...)  As
for M$ desktops...my favorite was NT.  Back then there was a developer
community that could do things...now with XP I guess it's not real bad
from an admin standpoint but Vista and 7?  Both are a Charlie-Foxtrot
that I can see and I want no part of them...for better or worse I'm
sticking with Ubuntu but will be migrating from a dedicated desktop
installation to running virtual machines for a while on top of CentOS.
We'll see how that goes but that's the direction that I wanted to try
next.  

Continuing on now to see about reading more on KMS and
Nvidia.....cheers!!


-----Original Message-----
From: Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com>
Reply-to: damon at damtek.com, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run
Linux! <ale at ale.org>
To: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] thinking about switching away from ubuntu
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:53:19 -0400





On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 10:47 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com>
> wrote:
>          every distro bugs me after some period of time.
>         
> 
> Heh, heh. Yep!
> 
> However!!
> 
> _NO_Linux_ distro bugs me as much as having to use a "tie my hands
> behind my back and make me work wearing a blindfold" system like
> Microsoft and Mac do. Mac is not quite as bileous vomit-making as
> windows but it is becoming more and more of a close system with each
> release and new product launch.

Hear!  Hear!

I mean seriously, Windows XP and 7 are NOT bad desktops.  However they
are a pain to get to do anything outside of "normal" operations (as
defined by the design engineers).  Mac just "works" unless you want to
do something Apple says you can't do
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III
> Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness         
> 


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