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Jenda

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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #30 on: 30 November 2005, 22:54 »
Are you still alive, foot foot?
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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #31 on: 30 November 2005, 23:44 »
maybe the install didn't go so well and his pc is totally screwed. i had a pc dedicated to messing with linux along side my doze pc when i first started.
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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #32 on: 30 November 2005, 23:48 »
he last visited 4 hours ago
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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #33 on: 1 December 2005, 02:58 »
Come on it's not that hard to install .. it only took me 30+ tries with 4 different distros before I got one to work ... maybe it's because I have laptop ? (less compatible ?) But, heck, it was worth every minute. They should make a mastercard-like comercial like that ...

Cost of downloading 4 Linux distros: $ 0.00
Time spent trying to install Linux: a shitload

Never getting pissed off at Winblow$ for being so fucked up and full of viruses and adware and spyware and bullshit and never having to see the BSOD again: priceless :D
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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #34 on: 1 December 2005, 10:53 »
Having your RPM DB break during a dist-upgrade and never being able to even use the install again: really priceless.

For quality their is Windows.
For all other things: OpenSource.
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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #35 on: 1 December 2005, 16:05 »
or installing the ati graphics driver and it wrecking X. thats one thing windows is better at. it has the option to only use default drivers so problems can be fixed.
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Jenda

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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #36 on: 1 December 2005, 16:27 »
Am I still at the right place? Is this the Microsoft bashing forum?
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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #37 on: 1 December 2005, 16:33 »
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Am I still at the right place? Is this the Microsoft bashing forum?

I'm not sure, but let's try to remove some doubt.

The only reason I'd put Windows on a computer is to enjoy chucking it off the top of a 97-storey building, get the lift down, and then piss on the mangled remains.
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Kintaro

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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #38 on: 1 December 2005, 17:31 »
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Am I still at the right place? Is this the Microsoft bashing forum?

I am a VIP now, I am just doing what all the others seem to do.

let me be cool, its highschool again, only now I am popular
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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #39 on: 1 December 2005, 19:40 »
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or installing the ati graphics driver and it wrecking X. thats one thing windows is better at. it has the option to only use default drivers so problems can be fixed.
Err.. Just change, using emacs/vim/pico/nano from the console, the name of the driver that Xorg uses in xorg.conf.
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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #40 on: 1 December 2005, 21:07 »
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Err.. Just change, using emacs/vim/pico/nano from the console, the name of the driver that Xorg uses in xorg.conf.

Something tells me he was talking about the offical driver.
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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #41 on: 1 December 2005, 21:43 »
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Something tells me he was talking about the offical driver.
Well if he was talking about the official ATi driver then how is it "one thing windows is better at"?

I dunno.
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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #42 on: 2 December 2005, 19:00 »
I'm still here, the only reason I haven't installed it yet is because my little brother has a big school project and he needs the computer. After he's done I'll get to it. I will keep you guys updated. Thanks for all of the advice.
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Kintaro

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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #43 on: 3 December 2005, 04:43 »
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Well if he was talking about the official ATi driver then how is it "one thing windows is better at"?

I dunno.

Because the offical ATi Driver according to him works without problems on Windows and they only exist on Linux.

Of course the ATi drivers for Windows are piss poor as well, I have an ATi video card and I must say that upgrading drivers has caused trouble with my games, multimedia, and everything else -- every single time I have upgraded the drivers.
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Re: Contemplating Switch
« Reply #44 on: 3 December 2005, 04:44 »
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I'm still here, the only reason I haven't installed it yet is because my little brother has a big school project and he needs the computer. After he's done I'll get to it. I will keep you guys updated. Thanks for all of the advice.

Have you considered a dual boot? Parhaps you should get yourself a copy of partition magic, or if your filesystem is FAT32 just use fips.
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