I thought I’d take a few minutes to toss Ubuntu on my old desktop tonight, since I was presently Linux-less at home (minus the PowerBook, but OS X doesn’t really count).
Well, here’s a timeline of my experience:
[6:00pm] Install Ubuntu.
[6:30pm] Fully update Ubuntu.
[8:00pm] Realize that you can’t do shit with Ubuntu on an AMD64 and format the drive to put 2003 server back on it.
That about sums it up. I mean, jesus, I couldn’t even get through step one so that I could use it as an actual useful desktop machine.
Some progress Linux has made… Just make sure you’re an Intel fanboy…
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Cal, on June 25, 2006 at 8:20pm, said:
Freaky - I’ve just downloaded Ubuntu. Was going to try the Live CD first.
I only have a PIII 650, so I’m guessing I’m good to go…
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Chris Meller, on June 26, 2006 at 5:12am, said:
I’ve got another part to this series that I wrote over the weekend, just didn’t get typed up here. Suffice it to say it doesn’t change much…
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Brad, on August 24, 2006 at 6:17am, said:
Usually installing with the “x86” or “PC” install disk is all you need. And to be fair - a lot of games, etc. won’t run properly on Windows 64-bit either … you need to use regular XP.
My suggestion: try again, using the x86 install disk.
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