starship_troopers Posted December 2, 2007 CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 which do you prefer, i have used ubuntu and thought gnome was ok, but after using suse 10.2 and mandriva 2008. i prefer kde...which do you all prefer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 2, 2007 CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 KDE is much better the gnome. gnome is a bad half assed copy of OS X. KDE 4.0 looks really nice. What did you think of ubuntu? I really hate it, its just such garbage. I love SUSE but would never put it on for a webserver ill leave that to rhel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted December 2, 2007 Author CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 i love suse 10.2 but never tried .3....but i just put mandriva 2008 on a cd so i can install it. yeah ubuntu sucks ass. i didnt like one thing about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted December 2, 2007 CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 Hey now, don't bust Ubuntu so quick, lol, before to long they may have the most advanced ( video tricks ) OS on the market. Although I do agree , boredom set in fairly soon after install. As for gnome, ok, I guess, but KDE is far more advanced, as well as useful , and integrated into the OS files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark06 Posted December 2, 2007 CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 KDE No dount yeah ubuntu sucked ass i hate i also love puppy for a fast live distro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 2, 2007 CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 Hey now, don't bust Ubuntu so quick, lol, before to long they may have the most advanced ( video tricks ) OS on the market. :haha: Your joking right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr0stbound Posted December 2, 2007 CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 :haha: Your joking right? you may never know,right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanobot Posted December 2, 2007 CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 you may never know,right? Exactly I mean Ubuntu has done quite a few things to enhance VISUAL performence. (They also did a lot of bad things lol) But they could easily catch up by 2010. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted December 2, 2007 Author CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 i have a question...i have dual boot mandriva 2008 and xp media center on my laptop...ok well two questions.... one, my cpu is 1.8ghz amd sempron but it only reads as 800mhz.... and 2, i am pretty sure i have the water effects, wobbly windows, etc, enabled but i cant get compiz fusion to actually work...hwo do i use the effects... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanobot Posted December 2, 2007 CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 i have a question...i have dual boot mandriva 2008 and xp media center on my laptop...ok well two questions.... one, my cpu is 1.8ghz amd sempron but it only reads as 800mhz.... and 2, i am pretty sure i have the water effects, wobbly windows, etc, enabled but i cant get compiz fusion to actually work...hwo do i use the effects... Ubuntu correct? If so go to the Ubuntu Wiki and search there...I had the same issue... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted December 2, 2007 Author CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 nope, thanks man though. i have Mandriva 2008 its so awesome. other than the fact that i cant get compiz to work... because i have no lag at all and its fast even though my cpu speed isnt full. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted December 2, 2007 Author CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 nope, thanks man though. i have Mandriva 2008 its so awesome. other than the fact that i cant get compiz to work... because i have no lag at all and its fast even though my cpu speed isnt full. ok nevermind on that...i figured it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted December 2, 2007 Author CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 ok well here is my fresh install...with compiz fusion and everything, but here is a pic of how my laptop is and stuff. fr now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted December 2, 2007 Author CID Share Posted December 2, 2007 here are my wireless stats for mandriva 2008... :::.. testmy.net test results ..::: Download Connection is:: 3214 Kbps about 3.21 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 392 kB/s Upload Connection is:: 285 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Upload Speed is:: 35 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Main) Test Time:: 2007/12/02 - 2:22pm D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-KQ169WRE4 U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-NMVBEJGYW User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070208 Mandriva/2.0.0.6-12mdv2008.0 (2008.0) Firefox/2.0.0.6 [!] but when i reboot i bet i will not have wirless....which would suck cause i dont know how to reconfigure it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark06 Posted December 3, 2007 CID Share Posted December 3, 2007 linux on laptops are a hassle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted December 3, 2007 Author CID Share Posted December 3, 2007 no its not. i have everything working perfectly now. and if a noob to linux like me can do it...then it shouldnt be a hassle to anyone..you just have to make sure you ahve the right drivers and versions for your specs..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hctim Posted December 3, 2007 CID Share Posted December 3, 2007 i have a question...i have dual boot mandriva 2008 and xp media center on my laptop...ok well two questions.... one, my cpu is 1.8GHz amd sempron but it only reads as 800MHz.... and 2, i am pretty sure i have the water effects, wobbly windows, etc, enabled but i cant get compiz fusion to actually work...hwo do i use the effects... It is a driver in linux and it is also in windows called Cool'N Quiet which is a reduction in both clock frequency and voltage at idle. saves alot of power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark06 Posted December 3, 2007 CID Share Posted December 3, 2007 no its not. i have everything working perfectly now. and if a noob to linux like me can do it...then it shouldnt be a hassle to anyone..you just have to make sure you ahve the right drivers and versions for your specs..... Yeah but laptops with integrated wireless have a very huge lack of drivers coded for linux or ports so getting online wirelessly is to much of a hassle for me a college student to use in his now main compter, his laptop i love linux on my desktop but admit i have hardly used it in a long time i will say i hate vista but it gets the job done none the less Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted December 3, 2007 Author CID Share Posted December 3, 2007 i see your point, but my wirless on my laptop is integrated and im using it with linux right now. but yeah, i love linux on my desktop, im gonna partition my harddrive with Gparted because i dont use 70 gigs of my space anyways, so i'll install mandriva 2008 as a dual boot too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted December 3, 2007 CID Share Posted December 3, 2007 i see your point, but my wirless on my laptop is integrated and im using it with linux right now. but yeah, i love linux on my desktop, im gonna partition my harddrive with Gparted because i dont use 70 gigs of my space anyways, so i'll install mandriva 2008 as a dual boot too. Give parallels workstation a try, you could run it just as fast as if you were dual booting, if your processor as virtualization Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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