Re: Linux: I'm in over my head....

From: Barry Oliver (barrysuperhawk@insightbb.com)
Date: Sat Dec 01 2007 - 11:01:55 EST


Ubuntu is good. It didn't like the video card on the machine I wanted
it to run onbut it seemed to work well enough for a novice... [yeah I
was too lazy to really research the video card thing to fix it...]

Eric wrote:
>>ok folks - I built the PC - I installed the distro - - - what the
>>HELL do I do with this thing? LOL
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> :) Anyway, 1st question is what distribution did you install?
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>>ugh - I think my brain is only able to handle so much info -
>>trying to learn Linux stuff might be beyong my abilties.
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> My opinion is that if you want to get it going quickly and *then*
> dig into the guts of it, Ubuntu is a very good choice.
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> http://www.ubuntu.com/
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> I'm pretty experienced with linux and the last switch i made was to
> Ubuntu. When I want to dig, I dig. Otherwise it pretty much just
> works. There is a learning curve, for sure.
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> Probably any more detailed stuff should be offlist, so feel free to
> email me directly.
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> Eric
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