[Wftl-lug] Bye bye desktop Linux

[Michael Willems]

>> I have been setting up Windows PCs since 1980 and Linux since 1995.
>
> That's interesting especially in light of this from Wikipedia:
> "Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in
> November 1985."

Yes, of course I meant DOS. But I certainly installed Windows 1.0 the moment 
it came out. (I ran "In-a-vision", a very useable app that predated Corel 
Draw)


> Having set up Linux since 1995 did you check any Hardware
> Compatibility Lists before buying?

It's a vanilla system - the drives that give the issue are in fact older IDE 
drives.


> [...]  ... everyone I work with would rather set up
> Linux than Microsoft Windows.

My opinion is more nuanced on that: sometimes one works better, sometimes 
the other. Windows is generally better in drivers.


[setting screen resolution on 6.04]
> Sounds like a video driver problem. Did you have the ATI/NVidia
> proprietary driver installed?

Yes, and also tried without.


>> running, although my wireless IDE card probably still won't work even 
>> then.
>
> What kind of card? I have a DLink PCI wireless card that worked out of
> the box with Ubuntu 7.04, it just took activating the network manager
> and putting in my key to get it working.

No idea. It's in there, and I do not remember the brand. May have been Dlink 
or some Taiwan brand - no idea.

Michael