I am NOT a computer expert. I tried RH8 and it recognized everything on
a computer that was several years older. I said, "Why not on a laptop"
I threw it on a laptop and bang it runs perfectly. I really am not any
good with computers, and I was surprised that I was having no problems.
My confidence was gaining and I tried a new computer with RH9. Bang -
perfect! I tried downloading and installing Mplayer - no luck. Tried
Xine. No problem! I had tried swapping an NVidia card with an old
generic SIS - not much luck with Redhat. I had purchased SuSE 8.2
because I heard it was good. Nvidia card recognized without any
problem. Went back to RH9 because it was more stable than SuSE,
installing ATI instead. Tried Ximian, worked great. Downloaded
Fedora. I love it. Put Suse 9 on my wife's machine, in the process
wiping out a legal copy of Windows XP before backing up. (Did you know
you don't get discs anymore?!) She is using it quite easily.
Moral of the story? A newbie as lame as myself did quite well with
Linux of various flavors on various levels of hardware; even though I
realize i had setbacks, I figured out alternates and other ways around;
and, finally I realized that Linux is worth the work, and is accessible
to everyone.
I can't understand that someone who boasts that they know alot about
computers could say that they had trouble with linux.
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