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| 575182 | 2007-08-01 22:35:00 | Just curious to know how many others are using the 2007 version of PCLinuxOS. It has proved good enough to move me away from Xandros (which I used for the past two years). The fact that Xandros signed an accord with M$ convinced me of the wisdom of my move. How are others finding the latest version of PCLinuxOS? It certainly gave Ubuntu a fright on Distrowatch, if that is anything to go on. You will find me over on the PCLOS forums under the username jimwilk. Jim |
Hhel (8073) | ||
| 575183 | 2007-08-02 01:18:00 | I'll download it and see. The 2006 version looked OK.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 575184 | 2007-08-02 22:13:00 | I tried it last weekend. It would not install onto a newish sata2 drive, but would no trouble on an old WD drive. It is the nearest linux to useable (and I don't mean nearest in looks to Windows)... the others have been dogs in every way. For me it was a toss-up between PClos and Mint after trying again Mandriva, Mepis Suse again etc. I still have issues with the vid/display. With an Nvidia card and 'high-end' LCD monitor the sharpness of the display is just not good enough with Linux and the colour controls on the video/display are still basic compared with the Nview program on Windows. If someone could solve this problem with 'blurry' display/Nvidia card settings I would actually stick with PClos. If someone was going to linux from Windows I would recommend PClinux over all the other distros- clean and simple, relatively easy to install and Synaptic is much easier to use than Yast (if you know what you are looking for to install!). I do still wish the 'help' for linux distros was more coherant (sp)... I do not enjoy trolling through endless forums to find answers to fairly basic questions and 'man-pages' are worse than useless. Once again my :2cents: from someone who has tried, tried again... and again... then gone back to Uncle Bill :groan: |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 575185 | 2007-08-02 23:29:00 | If someone could solve this problem with 'blurry' display/Nvidia card settings I would actually stick with PClos.I assume you're using VGA to connect your monitor? Just hit the 'auto' button on your monitor and all should suddenly become sharp and clear. The reason for the 'blurring' is simply because the signal boundary shifts slightly depending on which driver you're using - if you had different drivers to play with under windows you would find the same thing. Letting the monitor re-initialise its position settings after switching drivers generally fixes things, and should stick around even when the monitor power is off. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 575186 | 2007-08-03 00:34:00 | I assume you're using VGA to connect your monitor? Just hit the 'auto' button on your monitor and all should suddenly become sharp and clear. No, it's digital... maybe I should try using a VGA connection instead, but then I've never been a fan of going backards. My monitor doesn't have any buttons apart from an on/off switch, I did download a Samsung profile for Linux, still no success. |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 575187 | 2007-08-03 01:21:00 | What's the model of your screen? | Erayd (23) | ||
| 575188 | 2007-08-03 02:46:00 | 193P or 206BW... one of the distros had a profile, the other I downloaded from somewhere. I know where you're coming from with the analogue connection- but the blurriness is noticeably worse than using the monitor with an analogue cable. Some nice person suggested that I get an ATI video card... but again- what's the use of going backwards? |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
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