Hello Fedora, Goodbye Ubuntu
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Hello Fedora, Goodbye Ubuntu
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Re: Hello Fedora, Goodbye Ubuntu
#2I would switch to Linux - any distro - in a heartbeat if I can find one that does these this one thing well:
I use my laptop with multiple monitors depending on where I am. Windows handles this perfectly. On all the Linux distros I tried, I always had trouble, and required some kind of editing of some text file hidden somewhere require root access or something. Horrible user experience.
Re: Hello Fedora, Goodbye Ubuntu
#3I would switch to Linux - any distro - in a heartbeat if I can find one that does these this one thing well: I use my laptop with multiple monitors depending on where I am. Windows handles this perfectly. On all the Linux distros I tried, I always had trouble, and required some kind of editing of some text file hidden somewhere require root access or something. Horrible user experience.
If you have a nvidia card, skip the distro tools. Using nvidia-settings directly does any monitor/resolution/projector etc. combination you want. No xorg.conf hacking required.
Re: Hello Fedora, Goodbye Ubuntu
#4I would switch to Linux - any distro - in a heartbeat if I can find one that does these this one thing well: I use my laptop with multiple monitors depending on where I am. Windows handles this perfectly. On all the Linux distros I tried, I always had trouble, and required some kind of editing of some text file hidden somewhere require root access or something. Horrible user experience.
If you have an ATI card, this is pretty much par for the course. I've spent countless hours trying to get mine to work with dual monitors. It just simply doesn't work since I have monitors with different aspect ratios (one is widescreen). Nvidia, as mentioned is a good brand of card to have as it works much more nicely on most linux distros.
Re: Hello Fedora, Goodbye Ubuntu
#5I had a bad experience with Fedora about a year ago. I seem to remember the package manager wanting me to pay someone so I could listen to MP3s. Yeah, no thanks. There were various other things, but that one sticks in my memory.
I still really like Ubuntu, but several versions ago (I think around Fiesty) I realized they were headed in a direction I didn't want to follow, and I discovered Gentoo. That's where I am and that's where I'm likely to stay, though for fun I do try out other distros from time to time.
Re: Hello Fedora, Goodbye Ubuntu
#6I had a bad experience with Fedora about a year ago. I seem to remember the package manager wanting me to pay someone so I could listen to MP3s. Yeah, no thanks. There were various other things, but that one sticks in my memory. I still really like Ubuntu, but several versions ago (I think around Fiesty) I realized they were headed in a direction I didn't want to follow, and I discovered Gentoo. That's where I am and…
One can pay for mp3 (and other) codecs with Ubuntu too, if one is so inclined:
http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=244
Re: Hello Fedora, Goodbye Ubuntu
#7The claim that Ubuntu is somehow related to Windows is, of course, ridiculous. What's more ridiculous, though, is how the author assumes it matters which free desktop he's running. It's, basically, an open invitation for flame war.
Re: Hello Fedora, Goodbye Ubuntu
#8Fedora was never a very good distro from personal experience ( I've only tried 7-9 though ). And from that fedora really isn't any harder than another distro and is themed for similar audiences as ubuntu.
Debian and Ubuntu have one major advantage going for them package management through apt and aptitude.
Re: Hello Fedora, Goodbye Ubuntu
#9His assertion that Ubuntu has made Linux a monoculture because it's up to 30% market share makes me happy.
He's dreadfully wrong, but it's nice to see a group so consensus-phobic. It means I certainly won't have to worry about a Linux monoculture any time soon.
We also won't have commercial apps running smoothly on all Linux boxes any time soon for the same reason, but lately Wine is handling that for me pretty well. Which is quite amusing, all things considered.
Re: Hello Fedora, Goodbye Ubuntu
#10I would switch to Linux - any distro - in a heartbeat if I can find one that does these this one thing well: I use my laptop with multiple monitors depending on where I am. Windows handles this perfectly. On all the Linux distros I tried, I always had trouble, and required some kind of editing of some text file hidden somewhere require root access or something. Horrible user experience.
If you have an ATI card, this is pretty much par for the course. I've spent countless hours trying to get mine to work with dual monitors. It just simply doesn't work since I have monitors with different aspect ratios (one is widescreen). Nvidia, as mentioned is a good brand of card to have as it works much more nicely on most linux distros.
Intel cards also work well on Linux. That said - Intel anything works well on Linux.