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From: Mike Easter on 2 Apr 2010 11:40
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RayLopez99 wrote:

> Linux distro: unknown, but I'm only going to be surfing the web. No
> OpenOffice B.S. ("99% compatible to Windows! yeah right. 99% != 100%
> mister) No games. Just web surfing using Konqueror or whatever c rap
> ware Linux has for a browser.

You have crossposted this question into the wrong places. It doesn't
belong in cola or achp-h. It might work OK in the linux hardware group,
but I don't read that group, so I'm not posting into it.

If you aren't reading in the pc-homebuilt group, you shouldn't be
posting there.

Your main problem is not hardware related, but related to the fact that
generally speaking default linux distro installs don't enable a lot of
different mulitmedia codecs and applications because they are
proprietary and most linux distros are configured to not use proprietary
tools out of the box.

Linux Mint is an example of a distro which enables lots of multimedia
with the default install. Ubuntu can easily be enabled to do that
multimedia but it takes a couple of additional configuration enablings.

<How long>
> to (probably best) dual boot the
> above system, with Windows 7 being in the primary partition?

A few minutes.

> What
> distro to use that plays nice with 7?

All of them; that isn't the issue for your situation.

> I don't want facile answers, like "20 minutes".

A newbie can setup the dual boot quickly. Modern linux distros are
designed to make that easy.

> I expect, as a serious answer, "about
> two weeks: one week to study the following links: abcde (list) and
> one week to iron out the bugs".

Becoming progressively 'facile' with linux takes longer. Being really
facile would be able to solve problems with both the command line as
well as some kind of graphics tool, either/or. Many linux gurus can do
things with the commandline so easily that they never learned how to
navigate around with newer graphics tools for doing the same jobs.

Some problems *must* be solved with the commandline, and a newb
certainly doesn't know how to do that.

> I will only accept serious answers in this thread. If you reply "20
> minutes" you're not doing me or your cause, Linux advocacy, any
> favors. In fact, the opposite.

I don't normally read the cola group and I'm not reading it now.



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Mike Easter
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