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Thinking of giving Ubuntu another run.

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Crow550

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Well when 10.04 comes out.

Does Ubuntu support older ATI cards like the X1650 yet? Or would I have to opt for Nvidia?

Hardware supported video would be nice. So flash & such can play properly.

Also Google Earth & some linux games.

This would be on a P4 1GHZ, 1GB of memory.


Last time when I tried Ubuntu 9.10 the lack of video card support drove me away.

Also does the latest version of Picasa support Linux?

Thanks.

Any other distros? This would be for my Moms pc. XP would be dual booted for games. XP works pretty good. However if Ubuntu is faster & free. Why not?
 
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Crow550 said:
Well when 10.04 comes out.

Does Ubuntu support older ATI cards like the X1650 yet? Or would I have to opt for Nvidia?

Hardware supported video would be nice. So flash & such can play properly.

Also Google Earth & some linux games.

This would be on a P4 1GHZ, 1GB of memory.


Last time when I tried Ubuntu 9.10 the lack of video card support drove me away.

Also does the latest version of Picasa support Linux?

Thanks.

Any other distros? This would be for my Moms pc. XP would be dual booted for games. XP works pretty good. However if Ubuntu is faster & free. Why not?
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The official drivers for AMD/ATI dropped support for the olders cards. However, the open source drivers will support it just fine.

The other distros you can look at are Linux Mint, Mandriva (there's KDE, Gnome, and XFCE), Pclinux OS.

You can also try running games in WINE and see how they perform.

0roo0roo said:
you are going to make your mom dual boot?
just leave xp on it.
image it and hope she doesn't break it
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The OP can also try Linux, like it, and then get rid of windows. ^_^
 
XP kinda pissed me off because I can't get the ATI drivers to work anymore? They won't re-install at all.
 
Crow550 said:
XP kinda pissed me off because I can't get the ATI drivers to work anymore? They won't re-install at all.
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Ubuntu should have native support for some ATI cards,I know my old Sapphire 9700 runs fine on Ubuntu 9.10 etc..I can watch videos,have installed flash and do some light Linux gaming etc...

For serious gaming I still use Win7.
 
Crow550 said:
Well when 10.04 comes out.

Does Ubuntu support older ATI cards like the X1650 yet? Or would I have to opt for Nvidia?

Hardware supported video would be nice. So flash & such can play properly.

Also Google Earth & some linux games.

This would be on a P4 1GHZ, 1GB of memory.


Last time when I tried Ubuntu 9.10 the lack of video card support drove me away.

Also does the latest version of Picasa support Linux?

Thanks.

Any other distros? This would be for my Moms pc. XP would be dual booted for games. XP works pretty good. However if Ubuntu is faster & free. Why not?
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1. With the open source drivers you should be fine.
2. Adobe have not enabled video acceleration for Linux with flash 10.1 even though 10.1 on windows has this. Flash runs as you'd expect it to on a CPU.
3. Google earth runs fine on Linux as does Picasa and Chrome.

I'm really enjoying 10.04 give it a go.
 
I've gotten old ATI Radeon 9200's working fine on Ubuntu 9.10 using available drivers. A little bit of a PITA to install the proper drivers, but not that hard.
 
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