Discovering Linux - The Experiences of a Linux Newbie

[X.Cyclop]

Ubuntu.

Suse is very slow.

Linspire is a sh*t.

Switching from MS Windows to Linspire does not bring you to freedom, it just gets you a different master.

[codemyster]

Ubuntu didn't work on my system. It looked really cool though

I just stick with my good ol knoppix!

[stubbe]

see my thread. I'm stuck with ubuntu now.

[louberk]

I too, am a total newby to linux. I have apparently more experience with computers than the person who started this thread but still have problems, but then learning a new OS was the objective of this move. I just downloaded and installed SUSE 10.1 and found the install to go great. Internet connection, and the installed software worked imediately, but I too am having problems with installing software. Have tried repeatedly to install Firefox but no luck as yet. Will keep stumbling around till I hopefully get it right.

LOU

[bigtomrodney]

louberk have you found your way to YaST yet? It is the central configuration for SUSE and contains a software management tool. I would steer clear of installing from source, tarballs for static binaries and downloaded loose rpm files (sorry that sounds even more complicted )

Either install software through YaST, or if you wish to try something newer (but I think better and many would agree) have a look around the forum for the smart package manager. Many people are turning to it as there are a few installer issues in 10.1 and it also comes by default with many software sources.

[robert951]

by the way Fedora Core 5 doesnt ship with a text based installer.

and to the quitter scrarfussi go back to windows. sounds like to me you will have problems no matter what and dont have the patience to fix any of them.

Mine had a text based installer on it.

[carlosponti]

Mine had a text based installer on it.

its already been established that yes it has a text based installer but that its not a default way of installing fedora i made that point some time ago.