Main Area and Open Discussion > General Software Discussion
which Linux version for my laptop
Lutz_:
Well, I do not expect too much support for a free product. ;)
Mandriva has great forums (certainly other distros too). The positive aspects from my Mandriva experiences were:
- everything just worked with my two-year old inspiron notebook (no drivers to search); there were even NO niggles like unability to to turn the sound up louder or the need to adjust the screen brightness at every startup (which I experienced with the other distros on my hardware).
- the guys on the Mandriva forums are capable and willing to communicate in a not-so-geeky way.
Obviously I am not a power user;so I do not know what I could be missing (the Mandriva out-of-the-box look is somehow not the freshest).
- Fonts are easy to install (w/o command line involvement)
sorry : poor wording on my part -- also it's probably less true today (than 3-4 years ago). What I wanted to convey (maybe wrongly) is that free support for Mandriva free/one is (IMO) not as good as the support for Ubuntu and that one might have to pay for the special packs for extra support and software. But what's your opinion on the matter ?
-Armando (October 25, 2008, 11:45 PM)
--- End quote ---
-Lutz_ (October 26, 2008, 11:31 PM)
--- End quote ---
icekin:
Hey, try asking this question on slashdot and see how many different answers you get... :P
But yeah, I'd recommend Ubuntu or Xubuntu as well. If you like KDE over Gnome, there's Kubuntu and if you need something even faster than Xubuntu, there is fluxbuntu, but its not as polished as Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu.
Lashiec:
I need a MP3 editing program for Linux does anyone know of a good one?
-Davidtheo (October 26, 2008, 10:41 PM)
--- End quote ---
Audacity or Ardour.
Edvard:
+1 for audacity
There is none better.
Darwin:
Just to note, I gave MobaLiveCD a whirl and hated it... Actually, it seemed to be doing its thing, but it was DREADFULLY slow and the on-screen prompts were not very clear as to what was going to happen. Essentially, it creates a VM on your disk, whereever you instruct it to do so... I'd recommend trying Wubi unless your adamantly opposed to running a flavour of Ubuntu. Read the DC minireview of it here.
Just my two bits - YMMV!
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version