I'm sorry, but I have tried to get into linux. My (this) machine can (could) dual boot and it seemed quite usable. However, two days ago I booted into linux (ubuntu) and was informed that a new version was available. I (or rather it) installed it and since then I have had no network access and the Nvidia drivers no longer work.
I booted back into XP and searched the internet. It seems I need RT61 drivers for my wireless card. I go to the manufacturers site and download the correct driver package. I then find I have a bunch of C files that I have to somehow compile and then somehow install. WTF, why isn't there an executable that installs it?
I'm sorry but if anyone thinks that linux is ever going to become anything more than a curiosity then they are mistaken.
I am willing to be proved wrong. Please, anyone that thinks Linux is good, please walk me through getting my network working again. People call MS but in this case I had a perfectly good working ubuntu partition and when it got upgraded I had a pile of poo.
Oh, and BTW, guess where the help file for "can't connect to the internet" is. Yup, you guessed it, on the internet. FFS.
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Mike.
I booted back into XP and searched the internet. It seems I need RT61 drivers for my wireless card. I go to the manufacturers site and download the correct driver package. I then find I have a bunch of C files that I have to somehow compile and then somehow install. WTF, why isn't there an executable that installs it?
I'm sorry but if anyone thinks that linux is ever going to become anything more than a curiosity then they are mistaken.
I am willing to be proved wrong. Please, anyone that thinks Linux is good, please walk me through getting my network working again. People call MS but in this case I had a perfectly good working ubuntu partition and when it got upgraded I had a pile of poo.
Oh, and BTW, guess where the help file for "can't connect to the internet" is. Yup, you guessed it, on the internet. FFS.
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Mike.