Yes I had to go and open this can of worms, but I do have a few things to say here. Before I start this is the rig I have used while trying these different operating systems. Dell Dimension 4550, 2.4 P4 Northwood core, One gig Crucial RAM, Western Digital 7200RPM WDC WD600BB Hard Drive, ATI Radeon 7000 video, Intel Pro/100 10/100 LAN chip. Ceative Sound Blaster Live add in sound card.
The first OS I tried was Ubuntu 7.04. At first I ran it in live CD mode. The OS would only see one DVD drive, and didn't pick up my LAN chip at all. Now it ran ok but I wasn't able to get online with it so it was pointless for me. Thinking that a full install would be better I changed out my hard drive to my backup clean WD400BB, and installed Ubuntu. This time it did pickup my LAN, and I could use the net. DVD RW Drive "E" was still missing. The OS was now functional but I was badly missing all my "Candy" that I use with Xp. I know I could have downloaded replacements for most of this stuff to run with Ubuntu but I just didn't feel like dealing with it at the time. Because of the missing "E" drive, and other small problems I can only give this OS a C+. For a power user who wanted to fix all the little issues it would be a functional, and good OS. It just isn't right for my dumb ass. Keep in mind that nothing I am saying here is " scientific." Its just from my dumb users prospective. Oh the "Speed" was just as good or better than Windows Xp Home.
At RatDudes urgings I ordered up a newer version called Kubuntu 9.04. I tried this CD in Live mode and it WORKED fine! Even in "Live" mode it picked up all the junk in my PC. I was online with it in seconds. Didn't play with it long in live mode but I can and do say as and OS it works and didn't make my little brain hurt too much. Having learned a new trick here on the forum I installed "Virtual Box 3.0" in my windows Xp Home sp3 PC. Next I installed the Kubuntu in a newly created virtual machine. It went without a hitch. The Virtual Box Emulator program does slow my POS to a crawl so I can't comment on speed too much here, but it was fast enough for me. The thing is that Kubuntu worked, and it worked very well. It has a great web browser in it called "Konqueror." Its faster than my IE8 hands down. I also love the Auto spelling check feature of this browser. RatDude says that there is a version of "Konqueror" out for Xp and I'm going to try it soon. I will be building a PC and Kubuntu will be the OS. This is going to be a learning, and the real test situation for me and Kubuntu. By the way I like the KDE interface too. I only had one small issue with it. I couldn't find "START" button to shut the program down. Who would have ever thought to call this button "LEAVE!" Just maybe this Kubuntu is the Linux for everybody.
The first OS I tried was Ubuntu 7.04. At first I ran it in live CD mode. The OS would only see one DVD drive, and didn't pick up my LAN chip at all. Now it ran ok but I wasn't able to get online with it so it was pointless for me. Thinking that a full install would be better I changed out my hard drive to my backup clean WD400BB, and installed Ubuntu. This time it did pickup my LAN, and I could use the net. DVD RW Drive "E" was still missing. The OS was now functional but I was badly missing all my "Candy" that I use with Xp. I know I could have downloaded replacements for most of this stuff to run with Ubuntu but I just didn't feel like dealing with it at the time. Because of the missing "E" drive, and other small problems I can only give this OS a C+. For a power user who wanted to fix all the little issues it would be a functional, and good OS. It just isn't right for my dumb ass. Keep in mind that nothing I am saying here is " scientific." Its just from my dumb users prospective. Oh the "Speed" was just as good or better than Windows Xp Home.
At RatDudes urgings I ordered up a newer version called Kubuntu 9.04. I tried this CD in Live mode and it WORKED fine! Even in "Live" mode it picked up all the junk in my PC. I was online with it in seconds. Didn't play with it long in live mode but I can and do say as and OS it works and didn't make my little brain hurt too much. Having learned a new trick here on the forum I installed "Virtual Box 3.0" in my windows Xp Home sp3 PC. Next I installed the Kubuntu in a newly created virtual machine. It went without a hitch. The Virtual Box Emulator program does slow my POS to a crawl so I can't comment on speed too much here, but it was fast enough for me. The thing is that Kubuntu worked, and it worked very well. It has a great web browser in it called "Konqueror." Its faster than my IE8 hands down. I also love the Auto spelling check feature of this browser. RatDude says that there is a version of "Konqueror" out for Xp and I'm going to try it soon. I will be building a PC and Kubuntu will be the OS. This is going to be a learning, and the real test situation for me and Kubuntu. By the way I like the KDE interface too. I only had one small issue with it. I couldn't find "START" button to shut the program down. Who would have ever thought to call this button "LEAVE!" Just maybe this Kubuntu is the Linux for everybody.
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