Steve: GIYF. I installed Ubuntu on a Vista laptop. It is a dual boot XP and Ubuntu. It was easier getting Linux to run on it than XP. XP didn't have drivers and there wasn't a lot of help. The Ubuntu forum and other Linux forums solved any problems I had. There is an option for using restricted drivers. http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=114 solved the networking problem.
A lot of people griped about Vista. Maybe this was because it is not XP. From my experience I see a lot of similarities between Vista and Linux and learning it is not a lot different than learning Vista. It takes some patience and there is a learning curve, but for me it was well worth it. Don't get me started on the mac delete key. ;^) Jeff Jeff Johnson [email protected] SanDC, Inc. 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 On 4/21/2010 1:24 PM, Steve Ellenoff wrote: > Maybe I was just not lucky, but my experiences with Ubuntu were > pretty bad ( this was in 2008 ). Overall it worked just fine except > that wireless networking would simply not work. I wasted several days > of hair pulling and stress reading, researching and trying everything > I could to get it to work, but it simply would not. I even tried > several different wireless devices to see if it was a hardware > compatibility issue. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
