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| 1300471 | 2012-09-25 02:10:00 | Ok, thanks Yorick. I'll see if I can be bothered getting the graphics drivers ;) |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300472 | 2012-09-25 08:38:00 | Glad to hear you finally nailed it. What a marathon. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1300473 | 2012-09-25 09:22:00 | Just install Disk Internals Linux Reader (www.diskinternals.com) in your Windows and you can read (not write) your Linux partitions and copy the data to Windows. Apart from EXT2/3/4 and ReiserFS filesystems of Linux, it will also read UFS (FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc) and HFS (Mac) If it doesn't do EXT2/3/4 it is about as useful as tits on a bull. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1300474 | 2012-09-25 09:47:00 | If it doesn't do EXT2/3/4 it is about as useful as tits on a bull.His post says that it does... | Erayd (23) | ||
| 1300475 | 2012-09-25 10:06:00 | Wow, and I thought this was going to be tough. | sam m (517) | ||
| 1300476 | 2012-09-25 10:24:00 | His post says that it does... I think I may have misread his post. He would have been better off using "as well as" instead of "apart". |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1300477 | 2012-09-25 10:31:00 | Glad to hear you finally nailed it. What a marathon. I'll say! Still, I've learned a lot, tried two distros of linux, picked my favourite, and now have enough knowledge and confidence to try any I feel like. I think I won the marathon ;) :thanks to all who've helped me out on this thread, you've been great guys :) |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300478 | 2012-09-25 11:44:00 | Ok so now you can have a bit of fun! :) Distro wars are common, but the real war is between Desktop Environments! So which one did you go for during install, Gnome or KDE? You can if you wish put the DVD back in the drive, pop into YAST > Software > Sotware management >RPM Groups > system-GUI There is Gnome, KDE, LXDE, XFCE, Windowmaker, themes, icon sets all sorts of stuff. And software to do everything from text editors to the software to set up your own web-server. And that's just on the DVD, once all the repositories are lined up there are more. Have fun! :) Cheers Yo |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 1300479 | 2012-09-25 21:32:00 | I'm running Gnome, might have a play around with some others later. :) |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1300480 | 2012-09-25 22:44:00 | They're all pretty damn good these days just different ideas about how to do things . I think the way to sum them up (although others are encouraged to disagree :) ) is: KDE is shiney and infinitely adjustable and their file manager (dolphin) is a work of art and Konqueror is brilliant as a file manager when you have websites with ftp . Just treats your ftp as another file Gnome assumes a lot about the way you want to operate, so it's a lot like Windows and Mac in that attitude but it just works for the most part . The Gnome file manager is getting better but it's still not a patch on Dolphin . As a consequence I use Dolphin when I'm in gnome in any case, but I like the way that Gnome handles desktop effects, better than KDE IMHO . LXDE and XFCE sit on your machine very lightly, lightning fast and very usable but without the eyecandy that KDE and Gnome do so well . Both use a windows familiar environment Windowmaker is the slightly cracked member of the family :) Nothing looks familiar, theming is out there on the ragged edge but from a user perspective once you get used to the different way of doing things it makes the speed of all the others seem glacial . Very Goth, I love it . Of course then there is Fluxbox, Enlightenment, BlackBox, FVWM and probably several hundred that I haven't come across . It is very easy to kill a lot of hours just playing . :D |
Yorick (8120) | ||
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