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From: BenT on 31 May 2010 10:17 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?
From: Nasser M. Abbasi on 31 May 2010 10:20 On 05/31/2010 07:17 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? I've also tried 10.04, but it hanged during installation. From what I read, it is a buggy one. I am using debian 5 (latest). It is working fine so far. I like the apt package manager. --Nasser
From: The Natural Philosopher on 31 May 2010 10:21 Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > On 05/31/2010 07:17 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? > > > I've also tried 10.04, but it hanged during installation. From what I > read, it is a buggy one. > > I am using debian 5 (latest). It is working fine so far. I like the apt > package manager. > > --Nasser > Debian has MOST things working out the box these days. Recommended. Go for latest stable.
From: BenT on 31 May 2010 10:36 The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >> >> I've also tried 10.04, but it hanged during installation. From what I >> read, it is a buggy one. >> >> I am using debian 5 (latest). It is working fine so far. I like the apt >> package manager. >> >> --Nasser >> > Debian has MOST things working out the box these days. > > > Recommended. Go for latest stable. Thanks for the fast response. It's been quite a few years since I ran Debian. I'm downloading Debian 5 stable as I write......
From: General Schvantzkoph on 31 May 2010 12:08
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. This is how you set up the extra repos http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ |