imported_motodude
Senior member
Printer support kills it for all but the geek/enthusiast imo can't see Joe the plumber ordering a 400$ dell with Ubuntu and a 500$ printer because there are no drivers for the 50$ one.
As a noob I had no problems installing on a Dell 400sc, no drivers to mess with, love the default skin (I hate shiny shit with a passion, aka Vista), installs and updates fast.
Had a minor problem enabling dual monitors, had to install ATI's driver but have to turn off desktop effects to watch movies.
I had sound with the default audio player but never could get sound with any of the video players or Mythbuntu.
And lastly in Mythbuntu with my TV tuner card I ended up with a split screen of two identical squashed pictures, after a little googling seems this might not be fixable and is indicative of overall poor ati support.
This was all in a 12 hour Ubuntu/Mythbuntu marathon a couple days ago, I installed windows last night so I could watch a dvd but may try again tomorrow.
Anyway thats my first impression of Linux.
As a noob I had no problems installing on a Dell 400sc, no drivers to mess with, love the default skin (I hate shiny shit with a passion, aka Vista), installs and updates fast.
Had a minor problem enabling dual monitors, had to install ATI's driver but have to turn off desktop effects to watch movies.
I had sound with the default audio player but never could get sound with any of the video players or Mythbuntu.
And lastly in Mythbuntu with my TV tuner card I ended up with a split screen of two identical squashed pictures, after a little googling seems this might not be fixable and is indicative of overall poor ati support.
This was all in a 12 hour Ubuntu/Mythbuntu marathon a couple days ago, I installed windows last night so I could watch a dvd but may try again tomorrow.
Anyway thats my first impression of Linux.
