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[Chavo27]

this is one of the most helpful boards I've tried posting at. allot of the other ones just ignore your questions. I know allot of is has to do with people not using the search feature, which I'm probably guilty of here too

[atreyu]

this is one of the most helpful boards I've tried posting at. allot of the other ones just ignore your questions.

I agree w/you. I've been to a couple good ones, but this is definitely the most responsive and the most helpful.

I know allot of is has to do with people not using the search feature, which I'm probably guilty of here too

That kind of thing never really bothered me, personally - if you have a question, ask it, i say. if google didn't bring you here in the first place, it is probably not to be found anyway.

[jonyo]

Maybe this was the wrong section, 76 views and not a single thought? I'd like to get my distro installed tonight

never heard of it

[Chavo27]

I was reading something on the ubuntu page said you could try it from a CD or USB first. I've tried to run them on LIVE CDs it's terribly slow. Would booting it from USB be any quicker?

[atreyu]

yes, definitely quicker. what would be best is using a Live CD/USB to test-drive the distro first, then once you've made your decision, install the distro of choice to your hard drive. that is the best performance you will get.

[Chavo27]

I've been reading and reading the more I read the more I can't decide there's so many distros but like I said as long as I have a media center, google chrome, and gimp I'm happy. I cant think of that software that is like ms office I'll need that also.

[Chavo27]

Hell this didn't work at all, I dug the old PC out put some more ddr in her. Downloaded Mint and openSUSE burned the iso to dvd-rs with imgBurn. Same program I've used for years, had to download it on this machine but it's not burning anything. Says the discs are blank but I can see where it's wrote something.
How many people have multiple distros cause I can't decide just wonder if this is normal.

[atreyu]

Hell this didn't work at all, I dug the old PC out put some more ddr in her. Downloaded Mint and openSUSE burned the iso to dvd-rs with imgBurn. Same program I've used for years, had to download it on this machine but it's not burning anything. Says the discs are blank but I can see where it's wrote something.
How many people have multiple distros cause I can't decide just wonder if this is normal.

I've never used imgBurn, but are you sure that you burned it "from an ISO image file" versus dragging and dropping it to the burn application (and thus making a non-bootable data CD)?
you could also try other GUI burner like nautilus-cd-burner, gnomebaker, or k3b, or growisofs from the command line.

[Chavo27]

I think it's the discs, I burned the other ones at full speed. Did ubuntu with imgBURN at on 8x and the disc works fine..

[jayd512]

I cant think of that software that is like ms office I'll need that also.

You're probably thinking about Libre Office.