Now what?

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

I just installed Mandrake...now what to do?

**JungleMan** · Apr 12th, 2002, 03:54 PM

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

**thinktank2** · Apr 12th, 2002, 04:21 PM

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

Use it !!!

**JungleMan** · Apr 12th, 2002, 04:46 PM

Originally posted by thinktank2

Use it !!!

He's probbaly thinking the same thing I thought...what's so spectacular about it

**Gandalf_Grey_** · Apr 12th, 2002, 05:35 PM

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

**The Hobo** · Apr 12th, 2002, 11:57 PM

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

**sail3005** · Apr 13th, 2002, 06:10 AM

what desktop are you using?

**JungleMan** · Apr 13th, 2002, 09:19 AM

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

was actually less stable than Windows in my experience

**Sastraxi** · Apr 13th, 2002, 10:10 AM

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

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.

**Wynd** · Apr 13th, 2002, 10:13 AM

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

**JungleMan** · Apr 13th, 2002, 10:15 AM

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...

**Wynd** · Apr 13th, 2002, 10:16 AM

Same here, and I use 98

**JungleMan** · Apr 13th, 2002, 10:22 AM

Originally posted by Wynd
Same here, and I use 98

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

**Wynd** · Apr 13th, 2002, 10:24 AM

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

**JungleMan** · Apr 13th, 2002, 10:25 AM

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

**Wynd** · Apr 13th, 2002, 09:29 PM

I dunno, I partitioned my drive beforehand in windows.

**sail3005** · Apr 13th, 2002, 10:05 PM

i mainly use linux for experimentation. i plan to do some programming for it

**filburt1** · Apr 13th, 2002, 10:08 PM

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

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.

**sail3005** · Apr 13th, 2002, 10:11 PM

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

how could the avarage user possible figure out how to compile programs?

**Gandalf_Grey_** · Apr 13th, 2002, 10:40 PM

Originally posted by filburt1

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

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.

Are you sure you had it set up right? KDE never crashes for me, although i havn't tried 3.0 yet

**thinktank2** · Apr 14th, 2002, 12:34 PM

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.

**The Hobo** · Apr 15th, 2002, 08:57 PM

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.

**Gandalf_Grey_** · Apr 15th, 2002, 08:59 PM

i guess it is personal opinion i think that mandrake was the best $25 i ever spent

**kalicki** · Apr 15th, 2002, 09:03 PM

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...

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