linux to windows to linux in a week


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well like the title says i went from linux to windows back to linux again in a week. I was playing world of warcraft a lot and I kept getting these random crashes and started to get some file corruption issues. Then one day i rebooted my machine and it would not boot, kernel panic. I didn't have any linux cds on me and my room mate only had a win2k3 cd so I installed windows for the first time in 3 years on my pc. Ironically I have to say that I wasn't really impressed. I managed to make it bluescreen when installing drivers and also managed to crash it once when playing with some other settings all after having fixed my problem. Turns out too that the problems i was having were from a bad memory module so after tracking that down and doing a low level format im back on linux again and very pleased with fedora core 3. much more professional looking than windows and it supported all of my hardware out of the box. Needless to say I spent 2hrs today installing everything and setting it up when I had to spend 4 a few days back for an equivalent windows install.

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Glad to see you made the right decision :laugh:

FC3 does look quite nice too. I think I'm going to install it on my brother's computer and see if he notices :p

Oh one thing about world of warcraft.

If you're playing with Open GL (actually, if you're playing with directx, tell me how you can get the mouse cursor working ;)), WoW will crash upon entering a building if your minimap is enabled. It also crashes when you quit the game, so you'll have to killall wine and killall wineserver. If you already knew this, sorry. Just thought I'd let you know =)

Hmm.. Any links to FC3?

Im interested in a 1st try at Linux

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No propper ATI support yet, apparently there wont be radeon drivers for FC3 till December (im sure if you were advanced you'd be able to get the existing drivers working).

I installed FC3 the other week and I gotta say that im really impressed with it!

Fedora Link

ok i'll answer these in the order I got them.

MG-Cloud - yea I know about those issues and the mouse cursor is just a no go as of the last patch I tried. Disabling the minimap works fine for me though. Actually runs nicer under linux though in opengl than it did in windows with directx. ugh i hated running windows so much.

hypoxiaicon - http://fedora.redhat.com you can find a link there. i got the dvd iso and burned it for myself. I check these forums often too so if you encounter any problems or need any advice feel free to post...we will all try and help out as much as we can

Zerosleep - yea I was using cedega. i have a subscription for the occasional game I play. latest version is 4.1.1

Anyways its so good to be back!

Sweet, ill get a download manager, just incase the download drops.

Should have FC3 by tomorrow on my partition :D

My first try with Linux :D

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It is different from Windows, but very capable.

If you have problems, there are a lot of people to help here. (Y)

I used it dual-boot for over a year before I bit the bullet and went 100% Linux, and I have never regretted it - I enjoy just the day-to-day use of my computer now more than I have under Windows.

It may not be for you, but on the other hand, you may find it suits you perfectly. :yes: Just give it a good solid try and find out for yourself.

agreed. i used linux for about 6 months dual boot back when redhat 6.2 was out (well 7 was out but it sucked so i used 6.2) and i liked it but it wasn't mature enough for me and i went back to windows. then after another year or so and made the switch back perminantly. it has a bit of a learning curve because things are different. please feel free to post any questions what so ever.

I enjoy just the day-to-day use of my computer now more than I have under Windows.

I hear that brother.

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Same here. Linux is so responsive and so clean. The environment just "feels" better. Hard to explain fully, just like the Matrix, you have to see it for yourself, no one can be told, what Linux is...

Same here. Linux is so responsive and so clean. The environment just "feels" better. Hard to explain fully, just like the Matrix, you have to see it for yourself, no one can be told, what Linux is...

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might try linux when I get my new mobo cause It'll have a new video card so linux might work.

Wait: I swithced back to windows because of my wireless never mind. To bad I can't use it and really test it out :(

Sweet, ill get a download manager, just incase the download drops.

Should have FC3 by tomorrow on my partition :D

My first try with Linux :D

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I never succeeded in download the DVD image of Fedora Core 2. It kept saying it was complete after 200MB or so using IE, Firefox, and Getright. Flash FXP kept downloading the file even after it had finished. It had downloaded something like 3.6GB of 2GB.

I ended up downloading the 4 CD images.

With FC3 I successfully downloaded the DVD image using Flash FXP, and again it kept downloading, I had to manually cancel the download, I think i ended up downloading 2.45GB of 2.29GB.

At first I thought the download had failed, but I fired up Nero and tried to burn the DVD iso anyways. It game me some kind of error, with a "Fix" button, so I clicked the "Fix" button and the DVD iso burned correctly.

  I enjoy just the day-to-day use of my computer now more than I have under Windows.

I hear that brother.

I have to agree, sometimes Linux is hard to get working 100% correctly, but overall I get much more enjoyment over using Linux compared to using windows. Perhaps that is why I have had some form of Linux informed constantly for the last 4+ years.

sfamonkey - there is a wrapper that you can download to use any windows network card driver in linux. its $20 to buy it if you are interested. i can't remember what its called off the top of my head but I hear it works really well. if you are interested google it.

sfamonkey -  there is a wrapper that you can download to use any windows network card driver in linux. its $20 to buy it if you are interested. i can't remember what its called off the top of my head but I hear it works really well. if you are interested google it.

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Ndiswrapper is free and works perfectly. My bro has a Vaio laptop with a linksys G card and he has it set up working perfectly. even fixed some issues with his laptop, but then he is an engineer but google ndiswrapper and look for some docs. There are ways to setup up wireless access just fine on Linux...but you kinda need to know what you are doing or it will be somewhat difficult for you.

With FC3 I successfully downloaded the DVD image using Flash FXP, and again it kept downloading, I had to manually cancel the download, I think i ended up downloading 2.45GB of 2.29GB.

I would suggest downloading it from the ftp using a proper ftp client. You can resume files then as well and it's more reliable and likely faster than any download manager.

Ndiswrapper is free and works perfectly. My bro has a Vaio laptop with a linksys G card and he has it set up working perfectly. even fixed some issues with his laptop, but then he is an engineer but google ndiswrapper and look for some docs. There are ways to setup up wireless access just fine on Linux...but you kinda need to know what you are doing or it will be somewhat difficult for you.

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I'll try it when I get my new mobo and case cause that should be very soon hopefully today. I'll reformat with windows make sure everything working. I'll leave a partion for linux

Wow... not sure I can agree with all of you, but that's cool... to each his/her own. I'm still sitting comfortably in the Windows camp. However, I think Linux is definitely coming into it's own. For use in the server market it's been there for a long time... but it's the desktop that Linux has been making huge strides lately. I'll say personally that Fedora Core 2 was a very pleasant experience over all. Fedora Core 3 out of the box is VERY nice.... but I would wait a while yet. It's still so new that support for it is pretty sparse. If you're cool with downloading most applications source and building them yourself then have at it. However, if you just want to yum/rug/apt-get/whatever a package from a repository it's pretty lacking right now. It's nearly impossible to find a solid build of Mono for FC3 and without Mono you can't use Tomboy, Muine, F-Spot, Beagle, MonoDevelop (duh), or Blam.

Another distro to give serious consideration is Ubuntu. I don't know many of you have tried it, but I absolutely love it. If you have a fast network connection the setup is great. You download a single CD and it sets things up, then connects to download the remainder of the packages. The distro is built on top of Debian (the soon to come Sarge release) and comes out of the gate with a very warm, clean interface. It's already set up with Synaptic using apt-get for package management. While my personal favorite package manager is definitely rug and Red Carpet, Synaptic is a very nice choice as well. It seems to be very stable and the repositories are nicely laid out and easy to understand with tons of options already built and ready for use thanks to the large Debian community. The root account is disabled so everything is done with "sudo". If you really hate this you can always enable it by changing the root password. At any rate, this is definitely my distro of choice right now.

^^ That just went right over my head :blink:

Dude.. ive not used Linux before... ever.

Yeh i Know drivers may be a problem. But its a new experience :)

If i hit a problem, i restart and boot windows and come running to NW and be a Linux 'noob' :p

Just burnt it to a DVD right now.

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