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From: propman on 31 May 2010 12:16 On 31/05/2010 7:17 AM, BenT wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been running Kubuntu for several years and had very good luck with > it. I built my sweetie a new box with premium components (3.2 ghz quad core > AMD) and installed Kubuntu 10.04. Big mistake. > > First, it did not recognize on-board sound. So I picked up a sound card. > Now, I'm having intermittent problems with sound under flash in browsers. > Since this is a multimedia/internet machine, this is a non-starter. It's > even worse cause the KDE bottom panel keeps changing to black all by > itself. My sweetie is starting to give me questioning glances. Sheesh. > > So .... I need a distro for an intelligent newbie for a new machine. It > can't be breaking every 5 minutes and needs to be intuitive and easy to > use. What distro do you folks recommend? Maybe Suse? Something else? Mint 9 or openSUSE.
From: propman on 31 May 2010 12:19 On 31/05/2010 9:08 AM, General Schvantzkoph wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:17:14 -0500, BenT wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've been running Kubuntu for several years and had very good luck with >> it. I built my sweetie a new box with premium components (3.2 ghz quad >> core AMD) and installed Kubuntu 10.04. Big mistake. >> >> First, it did not recognize on-board sound. So I picked up a sound >> card. Now, I'm having intermittent problems with sound under flash in >> browsers. Since this is a multimedia/internet machine, this is a >> non-starter. It's even worse cause the KDE bottom panel keeps changing >> to black all by itself. My sweetie is starting to give me questioning >> glances. Sheesh. >> >> So .... I need a distro for an intelligent newbie for a new machine. It >> can't be breaking every 5 minutes and needs to be intuitive and easy to >> use. What distro do you folks recommend? Maybe Suse? Something else? > > Try Fedora 13, even though F13 just came out it seems to be really solid. > Fedora does an excellent job of recognizing and configuring hardware. > Even though it's target audience is developers not newbies the fact of > the matter is that it's no harder to use then Ubuntu, it's only downside > is it's 13 month support period and the fact that you have to configure a > couple of extra repositories to get non-free drivers and codecs. However > it's really easy to do that and once you have everything will work as > easily as Ubuntu. .....and if you don't even want to do the extra configuration for multimedia etc then install Mint 9 (which is based on Ubuntu, which in turn is based on Debian of course) which includes all the non-free stuff in it's default install. ;-)
From: Stefan Patric on 31 May 2010 13:27 On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:17:14 -0500, BenT wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been running Kubuntu for several years and had very good luck with > it. I built my sweetie a new box with premium components (3.2 ghz quad > core AMD) and installed Kubuntu 10.04. Big mistake. > > First, it did not recognize on-board sound. So I picked up a sound > card. Now, I'm having intermittent problems with sound under flash in > browsers. Since this is a multimedia/internet machine, this is a > non-starter. It's even worse cause the KDE bottom panel keeps changing > to black all by itself. My sweetie is starting to give me questioning > glances. Sheesh. > > So .... I need a distro for an intelligent newbie for a new machine. It > can't be breaking every 5 minutes and needs to be intuitive and easy to > use. What distro do you folks recommend? Maybe Suse? Something else? Mandriva 2010 http://www2.mandriva.com/ I also like PCLinuxOS 2010 (http://pclinuxos.com/), which is based on Mandriva, for newbies because it has all the plugins needed already installed. Even plays Windows Media Player files. Flash, too. Never had wireless or ethernet fail to configure on install. Unfortunately, it's only 32-bit, but there is a PAE version kernel, if you need to access more than 4 GB RAM. A 64-bit version is "in development," but I'll believe it when I see it. Stef
From: Dan C on 31 May 2010 13:59 On Mon, 31 May 2010 09:17:14 -0500, BenT wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been running Kubuntu for several years and had very good luck with > it. I built my sweetie a new box with premium components (3.2 ghz quad > core AMD) and installed Kubuntu 10.04. Big mistake. > > First, it did not recognize on-board sound. So I picked up a sound > card. Now, I'm having intermittent problems with sound under flash in > browsers. Since this is a multimedia/internet machine, this is a > non-starter. It's even worse cause the KDE bottom panel keeps changing > to black all by itself. My sweetie is starting to give me questioning > glances. Sheesh. > > So .... I need a distro for an intelligent newbie for a new machine. It > can't be breaking every 5 minutes and needs to be intuitive and easy to > use. What distro do you folks recommend? Maybe Suse? Something else? Slackware. -- "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". "Bother!" said Pooh, as he downed his twelfth Guinness. Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/ Thanks, Obama: http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/politica/thanks.jpg
From: J G Miller on 31 May 2010 14:11
On Mon, 31 May 2010 17:59:06 +0000, Dan C wrote: > Slackware. Perhaps Frugalware would be a little easier for a neophyte? <http://frugalware.ORG/> |