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Thread ID: 111139	2010-07-15 11:40:00	Enjoying Linux for a change	Nomad (952)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1119152	2010-07-15 22:06:00	PCLinuxOS and Linux Mint are both quite good and have Flash and multimedia codecs working 'out of the box' I use Mint and my wife uses PCLinuxOS.	KarameaDave (15222)
1119153	2010-07-15 22:08:00	Damn, openSuSE 11.3 is out today... Looks like I'm gonna give it touch and feel. Edit: OpenSuSE has gone the way of KDE :( I'll pass.	Cato (6936)
1119154	2010-07-15 22:19:00	I used ubuntu 9.10 an 10.4 untill I stuck with Backtrack 4. The only annoying thing was having to use the command line for little bits of system tweaking but most of that could be found online, jut a problem if you weren't online. Another prob was switching between windows an ubuntu. now i settle for a virtual OS	The Error Guy (14052)
1119155	2010-07-16 01:03:00	Ouch, you really know how to pick 'em! Java's fine (although if I remember correctly it's lacking a native 64bit browser plugin, unless something changed recently), but flash on Linux is a disaster. It works well enough, but it's not exactly stable, and it eats resources like almost nothing else. Sadly it's closed source, so the only hope of a fix lies with Adobe - and at the moment, that hope looks like it's riding on a one-way trip in a wooden box. Definitely a matter of opinion. I personally can't stand Gnome, but there's no denying that it's a good system. Flash is a dog in Linux and like you I can't stand Gnome but am a KDE fan. Been using PCLinuxOS for a few years now and before that Fedora/Redhat. I'm always trying different distros but Fedora is the only other one I have installed all the others being temporary play things.	mikebartnz (21)
1119156	2010-07-16 01:23:00	He kind of has to use RPM's, running a Redhat-based distro ;) Only if he's trying to install something that's not in the Fedora repositories - which isn't exactly likely. If it's in the repos, the system package manager will take care of all the RPM stuff behind the scenes. Flash is actually *better* in Linux than windows, we have 64-bit versions now :DAre you kidding me?!?!? Sure it's the only platform that Adobe has bothered to do a 64bit plugin for, but I cannot in all honesty see how you can objectively claim that it ruins better - as Mikebartnz rightly states above, it's an utter dog. Any chance you could expand a bit on what you think makes the Linux version better?	Erayd (23)
1119157	2010-07-16 04:22:00	Would mobile phones or 3G sticks work under Linux? Google usb-modeswitch, most should work. You can always get this: dlink.co.nz :) Edit: Don't expect any sort of support whatsoever though.	Cato (6936)
1119158	2010-07-16 06:21:00	Any chance you could expand a bit on what you think makes the Linux version better? The fact it's 64-bit :p Sure, the installation procedure in Linux blows compared to windows, but at least you can have a *truly* 64-bit OS that doesn't have any sort of backwards-compatibility libraries to run 32-bit code. To be honest Ubuntu is probably more "Mainstream" than Fedora. Ubuntu gets 1.5x the hits-per-day that Fedora does, not to mention Linux Mint which is based off Ubuntu is *right* behind Fedora in 3rd place. I'm not saying that's an accurate representation of market share or anything like that, but from what I've seen Ubuntu seems to be leading the way in terms of making a desktop system that's easy to use, n00b friendly, but also relatively customizable. I'm with KarameaDave, try out Mint linux: distrowatch.com http://linuxmint.com	Chilling_Silence (9)
1119159	2010-07-16 12:45:00	To be honest Ubuntu is probably more "Mainstream" than Fedora. Ubuntu gets 1.5x the hits-per-day that Fedora does, Anything Ubuntu wise lasts all of about two minutes after an installation with me. If I didn't run PCLinuxOS I would be running Fedora. Ubuntu is only more mainstream because it gets more press. Every Linux site has about ten articles about nothing, to do with Ubuntu.	mikebartnz (21)
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