I'm running Easy Peasy (Ubuntu designed for EEEPCs and other netbooks) and it's decent for everything except games. Any other linux users here?
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Only on my mac, two workstations, my htpc, my laptop, my audio workstation, and a pc at the office i confiscated to play with......
I run it on occasion, although shamefully I gotta admit I'm a bit lazy so I normally stay with windows so there is less fiddling to do.
Ubuntu 8.10 here.
Bought an HP netbook, too, to travel, and it had some OS that was built on Linux. But it was sort of annoying for what I do on the computer, so I loaded 8.10 on it, too and it really sings
Waiting to see if 9.10 supports the Atheros chip in my regular laptop. Hope so, but even if it doesn't, I am happy.
Bought an HP netbook, too, to travel, and it had some OS that was built on Linux. But it was sort of annoying for what I do on the computer, so I loaded 8.10 on it, too and it really sings
Waiting to see if 9.10 supports the Atheros chip in my regular laptop. Hope so, but even if it doesn't, I am happy.
I find the opposite to be the case. Windows needs much more... attention... to keep working properly. That may be because of how long I've been a linux geek though.
Fedora 8 and 10 here. Started with Redhat 7. I've tried a few other distros. Linux is more of a challenge for me than Windows. More stable more maintenance free too.
Ubuntu 8.10 here.
Bought an HP netbook, too, to travel, and it had some OS that was built on Linux. But it was sort of annoying for what I do on the computer, so I loaded 8.10 on it, too and it really sings
Waiting to see if 9.10 supports the Atheros chip in my regular laptop. Hope so, but even if it doesn't, I am happy.
The HP Mini runs on MI, which is Ubuntu in the first place. HP had it written slightly differently for them.
I know MI is Linux--I just didn't like it. It was set up for social networking, music and photos, and you had to root around to get to the Internet Proper. I didn't care much for that. Plus, I wanted OO on there, too.
8.10 runs great on there, so it is just a personal preference for me
Glad to know im not alone! The Ubuntu version underlying Easy Peasy is 9.04 and my EEE uses the atheros wireless card. Everything worked on the livecd and installed so I think Im happy. Yeah I agree with you that Windows XP takes more time - you get spyware and viruses like crazy and half the time the infections are so bad that you have to re-install Windows. I've probably reinstalled Windows 10x in the past year on various computers because of viruses that escaped the anti-virus and spyware programs. With Linux I never get viruses/spyware and rarely have to install unless I do something ......ed - and in this case it's just laziness to solve the problem the hard way since most Linux problems are fixable.
My first install.... slackware. Pre-red hat, 1993-ish. Tried Debian a little later. I remember using fvwm.... ugh, that was kind of awful. I dug afterstep, i still remember that wharf being pure awesome lol. Blackbox was pretty slick too in the later years (late 90's that is)...
I couldn't tell you how badly I freaked out my parents during all this.... totally worth it though, I still use stuff I learned from that early experimentation
I couldn't tell you how badly I freaked out my parents during all this.... totally worth it though, I still use stuff I learned from that early experimentation
Yeah I hate distros that try to specialize like that cuz most of the time they get it wrong, which is in general what's wrong with most desktop distros. I like being able to customize it - easy peasy comes with this netbook menu that covers the desktop all the time but I uninstalled it after just a few hours cuz its annoying as hell having to look at it all the time.
I know MI is Linux--I just didn't like it. It was set up for social networking, music and photos, and you had to root around to get to the Internet Proper. I didn't care much for that. Plus, I wanted OO on there, too.
8.10 runs great on there, so it is just a personal preference for me
Linux is my main OS (primarily Ubuntu, though I play around with several other distros, as well), but I also have a Mac, and a few Windows boxes.
That is true, especially with Ubuntu. On my laptop I had to do a few other things to get it working right for the initial install but over all it was easy. Most of my problems occurred when trying to get windows games and applications to run correctly in wine.
It was more of a hobby, and I stuck with linux for quite a while but the thing was I was mostly using windows apps and games and it didn't make sense to run linux for them. For now, I just have it setup to run on vmware when I get an itch to play around with it.
The stability and virus-free nature of Linux clinches it for me. I mostly use the netbook just for the internet and typing and it has apps that cover most of my needs. I do have XP on dual boot still though just in case I have to run something that requires it but everything so far fills my needs without the hassles of running anti-virus programs and re-installing XP once in a while.
It took five minutes by my kitchen clock for XP to boot on my old laptop. That is just unacceptable. I thought it was a hardware problem until I loaded Ubuntu on it and it purred like a kitten. There was nothing wrong with the machine, at all.
When I got a new laptop (not the netbook) it had Vista on it. Woof! Who thought *that* was a good idea?
When I got a new laptop (not the netbook) it had Vista on it. Woof! Who thought *that* was a good idea?
Wow that's pretty bad - I guess im forgetting the days when I tried to run Windows XP on a 266mhz comp.... it was literally hellf. But I do remember blackbox on the same comp - it was almost as fast as my netbook with a dozen programs running if I ran only a couple programs at a time which I really only do on this thing. Even on this thing, XP with a fresh install lags when starting Internet Explorer and will freeze intermittently if I do simple things like open multiple windows. Easy peasy is much more snappy and has yet to crash (well it did crash when I was messing with xorg but I fixed it by just killing it at the command line). I wish more people would switch over if they are just casual users (non-gamers) - linux is like the ecig of the software world!
I prefer Ubuntu on my internet machine, although I'm using xp at the moment. I tend to run xp for about a month, get sick of viruses and adware, and then go back to ubuntu for a while. It's a vicious cycle
The machine that I use for recording only uses xp. I would love to run a zero latency linux distro on that one, but unfortunately my audio interface card is not supported......yet.
The machine that I use for recording only uses xp. I would love to run a zero latency linux distro on that one, but unfortunately my audio interface card is not supported......yet.
Will 'easy peasy' work on an old pc with only something like 64 meg memory and a 40 gig hard drive? the latest versions of ubuntu won't.
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Several servers running NETBSD(not linux, but *Nix anyway)(up to 5 OSes under VMWare with some form of nix as the host OS), some Red Hat, a couple of CD burning stations running Ubuntu, several more flavors running under VMWare for testing, etc. So.......yea.
Dan
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Ran FreeBSD as a Desktop OS for about 8 years. Still have that machine in a closet somewhere. Old dual processor pentium pro with a six drive scsi raid 50. Getting a Mac Pro to play World of Warcraft and do photoshop stuff and run Logic and Protools is what made me stop using it. I've used all the "commercial" linux OS's. I do tech contracting so I'm pretty good with debian, red hat, fedora, gentoo, slackware, etc. I concentrate on the command line where 95 percent of all UNIX is nearly identical. I'm pretty biased towards commercial UNIX and there's a lot of things I'll still only use Solaris for. That being said, two FreeBSD nameservers I set up with FreeBSD over ten years ago at a pretty famous ISP are still running 2.1.7. Gotta love an OS that backports all security fixes.
That being said, I primarily use Windows for desktops now. Putty + PuttyTabs + ClusterSHiSH + Pageant + Virtualbox means I only need one OS to do everything, and right now that's Windows Vista. I really like Windows 7. Can't wait for it to be released.
That being said, I primarily use Windows for desktops now. Putty + PuttyTabs + ClusterSHiSH + Pageant + Virtualbox means I only need one OS to do everything, and right now that's Windows Vista. I really like Windows 7. Can't wait for it to be released.
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