Now what?

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Apr 12th, 2002, 03:09 PM
The Hobo

Now what?

I just installed Mandrake...now what to do?
Apr 12th, 2002, 03:54 PM
JungleMan

That's basically what my thoughts were too when I installed Linux.

:confused:
Apr 12th, 2002, 04:21 PM
thinktank2

Re: Now what?

Quote:

Originally posted by The Hobo
I just installed Mandrake...now what to do?

Use it !!!

:confused:
Apr 12th, 2002, 04:46 PM
JungleMan

Re: Re: Now what?

Quote:

Originally posted by thinktank2

Use it !!!

:confused:

He's probbaly thinking the same thing I thought...what's so spectacular about it :confused:
Apr 12th, 2002, 05:35 PM
Gandalf_Grey_

you could also ask yourself the same thing about windows, what i first did when i installed linux is explore, recompile my kernal, play with desktop environments, see what programs were still on the CD-ROM
Apr 12th, 2002, 11:57 PM
The Hobo

I know this is pretty much expected, but this runs alot slower than Windows did on the computer. The installation itself took forever.
Apr 13th, 2002, 06:10 AM
sail3005

what desktop are you using?
Apr 13th, 2002, 09:19 AM
JungleMan

Quote:

Originally posted by The Hobo
I know this is pretty much expected, but this runs alot slower than Windows did on the computer. The installation itself took forever.

Gnome ran a bit sluggish...KDE was not slow though...

But it still bored me quickly :o was actually less stable than Windows in my experience
Apr 13th, 2002, 10:10 AM
Sastraxi

Someone said you can play Half-Life on it.... :D

If you've got a slow computer you'll thank yourself, because Linux seems to be able to push out all the FPS it can.

Also you can watch TV on it if you have a TV card.
Apr 13th, 2002, 10:13 AM
Wynd

Quote:

Originally posted by jpbtennisman
was actually less stable than Windows in my experience

That's what you get for using Mandrake. It gives the most Windows-like experience of all the distributions--crashes included ;)
Apr 13th, 2002, 10:15 AM
JungleMan

Quote:

Originally posted by Wynd
That's what you get for using Mandrake. It gives the most Windows-like experience of all the distributions--crashes included ;)

Windows hasn't crashed on me in I-don't-know-how-long...only a few random apps, suprisingly most of them non-Microsoft. Dreamweaver and AOL Instant Messenger are the two biggies.

Hmm...
Apr 13th, 2002, 10:16 AM
Wynd

Same here, and I use 98 :confused:
Apr 13th, 2002, 10:22 AM
JungleMan

Quote:

Originally posted by Wynd
Same here, and I use 98 :confused:

So if you dont crash much, and I haven't crashed in a while, what makes you say it crashes like Windows?

:confused:
Apr 13th, 2002, 10:24 AM
Wynd

Just a joke, chill out ;) When I used mandrake it crashed more than windows did (especially KDE), but now I use Slackware (with Blackbox) and all is good :)
Apr 13th, 2002, 10:25 AM
JungleMan

Quote:

Originally posted by Wynd
Just a joke, chill out ;) When I used mandrake it crashed more than windows did (especially KDE), but now I use Slackware (with Blackbox) and all is good :)

I'm not mad i'm just confused

Yeah its fun to joke around...much like we still make jokes about Cyrix CPUs running hot when these days they run cool ;)
Apr 13th, 2002, 09:29 PM
Wynd

I dunno, I partitioned my drive beforehand in windows.
Apr 13th, 2002, 10:05 PM
sail3005

i mainly use linux for experimentation. i plan to do some programming for it
Apr 13th, 2002, 10:08 PM
filburt1

Quote:

Originally posted by Wynd
Just a joke, chill out ;) When I used mandrake it crashed more than windows did (especially KDE), but now I use Slackware (with Blackbox) and all is good :)

Same here, KDE was a royal piece of crap and crashed ALL the time, Windows Me was more stable :rolleyes:

Hobo: Konqueror is good for making sure your pages look good in all browsers and Linux is okay for servers, but not much else for the average user. :rolleyes:
Apr 13th, 2002, 10:11 PM
sail3005

i know, it is waaay far away from mainstream use.

how could the avarage user possible figure out how to compile programs?
Apr 13th, 2002, 10:40 PM
Gandalf_Grey_

Quote:

Originally posted by filburt1

Same here, KDE was a royal piece of crap and crashed ALL the time, Windows Me was more stable :rolleyes:

Hobo: Konqueror is good for making sure your pages look good in all browsers and Linux is okay for servers, but not much else for the average user. :rolleyes:

Are you sure you had it set up right? KDE never crashes for me, although i havn't tried 3.0 yet
Apr 14th, 2002, 12:34 PM
thinktank2

Quote:

Originally posted by The Hobo
I know this is pretty much expected, but this runs alot slower than Windows did on the computer. The installation itself took forever.

Increase the swap partition size to 2 GB and see the difference.
Apr 15th, 2002, 08:57 PM
The Hobo

I have turned on that computer since I installed it. What a waste of $25.

I just don't have time to sit around and wait for it to finish processing. Windows was 10x faster, by any measure.
Apr 15th, 2002, 08:59 PM
Gandalf_Grey_

i guess it is personal opinion i think that mandrake was the best $25 i ever spent
Apr 15th, 2002, 09:03 PM
kalicki

Man, 98 crashed constantly on me, and the only thing that's crashed for me in Win2k has been due to my POS vid card and it's lack of good drivers... :rolleyes:

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