Well I tried ArchLinux for all of the amount of time it took to install the distribution.

It’s not fantastic.  Seems like the community-developed package directory is by FAR more superior to Portage, and silly things like adding repository URLs to apt-get or yum.

I gave Fedora 7 a try and… I’m writing this to you right now in their wonderful Gnome environment.  I have the same problem I did with it about a year ago, which is no mp3/etc support out of the box, nor an easy solution like Ubuntu has with a waiver of responsibility.

I also attempted to get the nVidia binary driver working in Fedora just now with a very easy guide… that failed miserably.

I think from now on I’m just going to work towards having a dual-boot setup.  Windows for when I need to get things done (or blow people up), and Ubuntu when I feel like a challenge and learning something new.



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One Comment to “Now I see why people like Ubuntu.”

  1. Omer | August 27th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    Same here, i just reinstall ubuntu over fedora 7 of course with dual boot with vista business … ubuntu installed all my drivers.
    using laptop Toshiba A100 Canadian Edition … work fine.
    good luck.

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