remixedcat Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Touchy in what way? Just curious. And Fedora is a good distro. What problems were you having with Ubuntu and Linux Mint, specifically? wireless stuff and the sound drivers were shaky!!! sometimes the sound would completly cut out and all hell would break loose and right after a youtube vid would play the last 2 seconds of the audio would be stuck repeating itself for 2 minutes then would stop. that was the wierdest thing ever....among the other problems of the audio just sounding god awful and I know it was the distro/package problem becuase in windows the sound worked perfectly and sound much clearer and better. This was 2 years ago so I hope they have fixed something by now!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPyro Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Our college uses Fedora to teach people about linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abysal Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Just finished a Slackware 13.37 install on my old 380d Pentium 150 MHz laptop w/ 80 MB of RAM lol. Glassed Silver 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 woah slackware is still around.... wow i remember it was like a big deal distro back in the day.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abysal Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 yeah, i was looking something super lightweight to install on this old laptop, and it was either slack, puppy linux, gentoo, or arch linux, and since I'm not an expert, gentoo and arch were out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilo Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Arch Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothing Here Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Fedora. LMDE is a cool distro and with it, you wouldn't have to worry about installing 3rd party codecs. Fedora, you are going to have to install everything. But I'm partial to Fedora. Or and this is a stretch, what about CrunchBang? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted September 12, 2012 Author Veteran Share Posted September 12, 2012 Well i installed Fedora last night Install went smooth did updates installed java/filezilla/xchat/chrome removed firefox so all set up so i can go home tonight and set up all my accounts Seems faster than opensuse boots faster too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Good choice!!!! ;-) Let us know how yah like it!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cork1958 Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Hard to believe you can get Fedora to work and have issues with others. It is a decent choice though. WAY better than any Ubuntu derivative. Should've tried Zenwalk!! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplezz Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 wireless stuff and the sound drivers were shaky!!! sometimes the sound would completly cut out and all hell would break loose and right after a youtube vid would play the last 2 seconds of the audio would be stuck repeating itself for 2 minutes then would stop. that was the wierdest thing ever....among the other problems of the audio just sounding god awful and I know it was the distro/package problem becuase in windows the sound worked perfectly and sound much clearer and better. This was 2 years ago so I hope they have fixed something by now!!!!!! Funny you mention sound. My Audigy 2 front panel jack isn't detected and doesn't work in Windows, but it works out of the box in GNU/Linux. I also have to manually download my Wireless driver and install it in Windows 7 yet it works OOTB in Linux. It's weird because years ago Linux was more difficult to setup drivers, now it's Windows lol. Things just work automagically for me. The kernel automatically detects and loads the required modules for my hardware. I wonder if Windows will ever do that :( Seems faster than opensuse boots faster too Is it using systemd? I've noticed a speed increase since migrating arch from sysvinit to systemd. On the question of distro, I'd have to say a rolling release one like Arch or Gentoo. I can't stand the pain-in-the-arse 6 month upgrade cycle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 LOL that is wierd.... I have an Audigy 2 and it didn't work worth a crap in Ubuntu!!! but that was like 3 yrs ago LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplezz Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 LOL that is wierd.... I have an Audigy 2 and it didn't work worth a crap in Ubuntu!!! but that was like 3 yrs ago LOL I've been using GNU/Linux for a good seven years now, and emu10k1 has always worked for various soundblaster based chips. Which version of the Audigy 2 do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 I've been using GNU/Linux for a good seven years now, and emu10k1 has always worked for various soundblaster based chips. Which version of the Audigy 2 do you have? 2 SE I think..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplezz Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 2 SE I think..... Never heard of any problems with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 wow lucky punk... I had a lot of problems with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplezz Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 wow lucky punk... I had a lot of problems with it No point reminiscing, give it a try today and see if it works now ;) I'd be very surprised if an Audigy 2 chipset didn't work OOTB in GNU/Linux in the present. In fact it should be easier than Windows. In Windows you'd have to select the optional Windows update for the driver, or manually hunt it down in your web browser to get it working. Then you'd have to install it and reboot ten times (as normal with Windows lol). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted September 14, 2012 Share Posted September 14, 2012 No point reminiscing, give it a try today and see if it works now ;) I'd be very surprised if an Audigy 2 chipset didn't work OOTB in GNU/Linux in the present. In fact it should be easier than Windows. In Windows you'd have to select the optional Windows update for the driver, or manually hunt it down in your web browser to get it working. Then you'd have to install it and reboot ten times (as normal with Windows lol). I'll give it a try later... right now I got server 2012 to install and play with as soon as I order the new SSD+HDD for the HTPC The main OS will be Server 2012 on it. Can't wait to get that rig up and running again!!!! It's been a while... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Funny you mention sound. My Audigy 2 front panel jack isn't detected and doesn't work in Windows, but it works out of the box in GNU/Linux. I also have to manually download my Wireless driver and install it in Windows 7 yet it works OOTB in Linux. It's weird because years ago Linux was more difficult to setup drivers, now it's Windows lol. Things just work automagically for me. The kernel automatically detects and loads the required modules for my hardware. I wonder if Windows will ever do that :( Is it using systemd? I've noticed a speed increase since migrating arch from sysvinit to systemd. On the question of distro, I'd have to say a rolling release one like Arch or Gentoo. I can't stand the pain-in-the-arse 6 month upgrade cycle. Yeah, fedora was one of the first distros to move to systemd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pubudu Kodikara Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 No Ubuntu on the list? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted October 1, 2012 Author Veteran Share Posted October 1, 2012 No Ubuntu on the list? Read the first post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KomaWei Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Gentoo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REM2000 Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Debian is ultra reliable and easy to use, my vote goes to that, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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