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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #45 on: 3 February 2007, 04:09 »
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i just thought i would mention that i thought mepis stank, not trying to pick a fight but somebody said it was great for a newbie, i think that's entirely incorrect. all i am saying is that taking recommendations is fine, but you will want to try some out before you make any serious decision, because it really is all a matter of opinion. if there isn't an answer now to "what's the best distro" then there never will be.


i second,third and throw my mepis discs out the window that statement


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Whatever man, some Linux distros are actually much easier to administer than any Window$ piece of shit.

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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #46 on: 3 February 2007, 13:41 »
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i'm a reformed winaholic i just switched to freespire and i'll not switch back if my life depends on it. ps.i've been reading posts here a long time
Cool. Good to see OSes like Freespire which only seem to get critism around here making people happy, heh.
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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #47 on: 3 February 2007, 15:07 »
I've never heard of it. I've heard of Linspire though which does recieve a lot of criticism around here; is Freespire a community driven fork of it?
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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #48 on: 3 February 2007, 18:12 »
i dont know all the tech talk ,it is my understanding it is built off linspire with the additation of CNR wich helps newbies like myself in the loading process allthough in the future i would like to learn how to load programs correctly as i feel i'm missing out on alot of software . thanks again for these boards .           I've been clean for 4 days

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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #49 on: 3 February 2007, 18:59 »
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in the future i would like to learn how to load programs correctly as i feel i'm missing out on alot of software

I concur, isntalling software on Linux isn't the most user friendly process.

What software would you like to install/update and we might be able to help you?
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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #50 on: 3 February 2007, 23:02 »
Well i figured pain out ok as far as resizeing an image.it feels good to have a face to go with my name

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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #51 on: 5 February 2007, 14:45 »
hey! welcome to the dark side! i'd be interested in whatever you think about freespire, since it's not so common a choice of linux distro, so keep posting here, superken. You might like to ask at voidmain.is-a-geek.net/forums and maybe even linuxquestions.org as well, if you have administration questions about linux. both sites are good, in my experience.

by the way, interesting choice of avatar, it wouldn't be my favourite morpheus drawing though. which issue is it from/what artist?
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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #52 on: 6 February 2007, 23:47 »
im posting this from linux mint, its GREAT!!!! better than ubuntu!!!!

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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #53 on: 7 February 2007, 00:05 »
blacklist lg3d while youre at it

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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #54 on: 7 February 2007, 11:50 »
Wait a sec, isn't linux mint actually ubuntu (with non-free stuff et al)? I should give freespire a try sometime, thanks for the mention.


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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #55 on: 7 February 2007, 23:12 »
While we're balcklisting distros, may I please add SUSE to the list for obvious reasons.
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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #56 on: 7 February 2007, 23:14 »
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While we're balcklisting distros, may I please add SUSE to the list for obvious reasons.

here i thought we were blacklisting them!

add debian to the good list too!

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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #57 on: 7 February 2007, 23:52 »
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add debian to the good list too!


Did you just blacklist Debian?! :mad:

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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #58 on: 8 February 2007, 07:47 »
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Did you just blacklist Debian?! :mad:

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 Easy, easy... I'm sure he meant the whitelist...

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Re: Linux 4 newbies
« Reply #59 on: 8 February 2007, 12:56 »
Well freespire has going well for me so far i thought it was a little slow,come to find out my son swipped ram from my machine ,its back up to par now and all is well. Use the force Luke