[CorlacolII (old)]

After using *nix for over 4 years I find that everything makes sense and it's easy to maintain and install.

Nowadays I have a hard time installing and using windows.

[Aarsbuds0r (old)]

Could you come over to my house please then? To install Linux there? Ty.

[CorlacolII (old)]

You can do it yourself.

Go to the mandrake.org website and download the first iso, burn it, boot with the cd and follow the instructions.

[Aarsbuds0r (old)]

I already had some distro's installed (Debian/Suse) but I just couldnt work with it... Everything is hard to do in Linux (at least for someone who has used windows all his life). I couldnt even get sound-recording to work =]

[StonedLemming (old)]

I have only recently started using linux.

And with the help of HoboHumpinSlut and alot of googling,i am now sitting behind a fully functional Debian linux.

Quake3,NWN,irc,msn,sound,music downloading stuff,it all works!

I dont think i am ever going back.

I started out with knoppix though,which is a live-cd which basicly gives you a linux OS running in memory,its made for system recovery,but it can also be put on your HD,once installed its basicly debian,and alot of hardware is autodetected(sound for example).
Starting out with knoppix gave me alot more knowledge about the basics,and thus helped me alot with setting up Debian.

And ofcourse its real handy to screw around with before actually changing anything on your HD

http://www.knopper.n...x/index-en.html Oooooh,button

[F for Fragging (old)]

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I already had some distro's installed (Debian/Suse) but I just couldnt work with it... Everything is hard to do in Linux (at least for someone who has used windows all his life). I couldnt even get sound-recording to work =]

What versions of those distro's did you use? I recently started using Suse Linux 9.1. The installation was very easy. However, you are right that Linux is sometimes quite complicated. I had to use a special hack (posted on this forum) to get my Logitech Dual Optical working on 800 dpi, and read a howto to get my fourth mouse button working. I also had some other problems, but those were specific to the Suse distribution. The only reason I still have a multiboot with Windows XP (one of the things I really like about a Suse, after the install it automatically configured a boot menu which lets me choose to start Windows XP or Linux after I turned on the PC) is because of the Windows games.

I can understand that you don't like it. My advice to you is that you look at the newbie Linux distributions like Mandrake, Suse, Fedora or Linspire after one year or so. By then they would probably be quite improved, and even more newbie friendly.

[gk245 (old)]

Debian is getting easier to install, at least:

http://applications....04/08/09/164207

And yes, the learning curve is quite high. I suggest using knoppix as a warmer, then going from there.

[L3mMinG (old)]

SuSE is pretty easy yes, I still prefer gentoo due to its source-code based distribution which allows for total customization all over the place.

Solved that dual oss problem (q3 + ts2) by using my on-board soundcard for the TS2 with an earpiece/mic headset and urt just comes through my speakers, works really well that way.

Sure hope doom 3 will use alsa on linux