Comment Re:In defense of Gnome (Score 1) 1469
Are you kidding me?
I just installed Ubuntu on my 4-year-old ThinkPad (P-III 700MHz, 192MB RAM) and yeah, it runs a tad slow, but it's still usable. What kind of hardware are you using? EVERYTHING worked perfectly for me... USB, audio, video... the only roadblock I've had is getting my wireless card to work with ndiswrapper.
Prior to this, I've never used Linux before. No "guru" skills necessary, at least in my case. Perhaps you shouldn't complain to much when trying to run it on stone-age hardware (yes, I'm running it on old hardware, too.. but at least I didn't EXPECT it to run as fast as a brand-new machine)
Ubuntu is a distro that seems to focus on the eye candy stuff. Since you don't seem to care for that stuff, you chose the wrong distro. Not Ubuntu's fault.
I just installed Ubuntu on my 4-year-old ThinkPad (P-III 700MHz, 192MB RAM) and yeah, it runs a tad slow, but it's still usable. What kind of hardware are you using? EVERYTHING worked perfectly for me... USB, audio, video... the only roadblock I've had is getting my wireless card to work with ndiswrapper.
Prior to this, I've never used Linux before. No "guru" skills necessary, at least in my case. Perhaps you shouldn't complain to much when trying to run it on stone-age hardware (yes, I'm running it on old hardware, too.. but at least I didn't EXPECT it to run as fast as a brand-new machine)
Ubuntu is a distro that seems to focus on the eye candy stuff. Since you don't seem to care for that stuff, you chose the wrong distro. Not Ubuntu's fault.
