On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:13:06 GMT, “Carlos E. R.”
<robin_listas@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>On 2012-07-29 10:16, acedev wrote:
>>> Thanks for your reply above - I was at my wits end when I made my
>>> comment. I suppose what I was trying to say was that when I have
>>> installed windows, on whatever box, -the graphics always worked! -What I
>>> couldn’t understand is why Ubuntu didn’t load a default simple driverto
>>> enable me to get through to a point where I would be able to fix the
>>> driver, as Windows does. What it meant was that I was unable to continue
>>> with Ubuntu in any way as I literally could not see anything on screen
>>> and had no linux skills to preconfigure it.
>>>
>>> I didn’t give up though - I found openSuse and it at least got me
>>> through so I could use the failsafe option after making some BIOS
>>> changes. And here I am now looking at a decent screen, although I don’t
>>> quite understand how!
>
>Good! If you persevere using and learning Linux, it will reward you. Linux is difficult
>learning at first, but simply because you are used to Windows. Once you control Linux, it is
>Windows which is harder 
>
>Just consider how many years you have been using Windows. 
>
>
>One sample advantage: no viruses. I have been using Linux since 98, and since then, I had not a
>single virus problem.
>
>One sample disadvantage: when shopping, you have to be careful to buy compatible hardware. The
>cheaper a piece is, the more chances you get that it will not work. Think printers
>(winprinters). Cheap, means use the main CPU to do part of the job, means it needs special
>driver in the system to work, which is only provided for Windows.
That is finally going away as good 32-bit Arm processors are hitting the 2
US$ mark, making Postscript and HP-PCL reasonable inside low end printers.
Just the same, linux on bleeding edge hardware is problematic. I am
pushing it with a Gigabyte GA-990FX-UD3 (with FX6100, 6 cores 3.6 Ghz), i
TB disk, and a Radeon HD5770. System not fully built out yet. Need to
add internal USB floppy / card reader and a couple of SSDs, they are
coming along with a wide screen 24 inch display. (alternate output to 55
inch HDTV for movies.)
BTW doing (open)Suse since 7.3, redhat and slackware even earlier. I
still have a redhat 8.1 box distribution and i remember doing redhat from
floppies. Also MSwin 3.0 (3.1 upgrade that disabled DRDos 6.0 pissed me
off, and yes i still have the install floppies (some 5.25 inch). I saw
that computers were the way of the future in the late 1960s, wow i so
under-estimated that. It is now easy to have (in the US if you have a
good job) a PC that can eat a late 1980s early 1990s supercomputer for
lunch.
?-)