I agree with a few of your points, disagree with others. The command-line thing, especially... Does it matter if you're trying to do something and you have no clue what you're doing, and someone tells you to click this>that>other (for 8 or 10 levels, which is the bane of most GUIs) instead of someone telling you to type in some command or other? I don't see the difference unless you're just plain afraid of the keyboard.
A much bigger problem is locating working drivers. I set up a new desktop PC about a week ago and decided to try Ubuntu 8.10. The install went smoothly, certainly no more problems than any Windows install I've ever done. But it didn't install a video driver for the onboard video and I didn't want to put up with the slow, generic driver. The motherboard has an AMD 780G chipset, which embeds the ATI Radeon 3200. Fiddled forever with installing the drivers, finally got it to stick, then got horizontal lines and tearing in the video, no matter what I tried. Did searches around the Internet looking for solutions and found that the general consensus is that ATI video drivers for Linux are garbage. In the end I wiped it clean and installed XP Pro. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60817 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
