Hi all,
Thought I'd say a big HELLO from somewhere in the middle of the United States!
To tell a little about myself, I've been a Linux user for about 5 years now, starting with Xandros, left it after the big blowup with Microsith, and I've wandered through various distros, finally settled on 'buntu, tried several flavours, stayed with some longer than others.
I'm basically into hardware but can stumble through some simpler Linux stuff. I mainly do a lot of applications, and stretch Koffice and OO to their limits.
Except for one critical Windblows proggy which will just not run under Wine or Crossover I've been Windoze free for about two years.
Got into Compiz Fusion for two reasons, both about equal in importance. a) I like eye candy, but not if it doesn't let me "get on with the program" and b) Compiz Fusion has greatly increased my "productivity". My Linux machines have to be work machines first and foremost.
Compiz on other distros is well.... like pulling teeth, except for the OpenSuse project, but I just can't get into their version of how to do things....
So.... here I am, and I' think I'll stay....
Here's what I had in the first install.
a) the first download was a bad download. K3B burned it ok, and I even did it on an Hasta La Vista machine and both were bad. They both stopped at 71% if that helps any, although the live DVD ran marvellously, it found all of the hardware on all three of my machines, a Toshiba lappy a Sony Vaio Lappy and a self build 4 gig dual processor machine.
After the second download here is the first install:
Toshiba Satellite laptop.
Intel Celeron 440 at 1.8 ghz
1 gig memory
2.0 found all of the hardware just fine.
2.0 popped the restricted driver and loaded fglrx providing 1280 x 800 on an ATI Radeon Express onboard card.
2.0 found both wireless cards the onboard Atheros and a D-Link Airplus G card without any intervention on my part.
2.0 found a Logitech wireless mouse(dongle) automatically.
2.0 found the onboard sound card automatically but it only plays through headphones, which is exactly what has happened with all other distros, so it is nothing to worry about.
Amarok had the drivers in place to find the "Cool Streams" .pls playlists without intervention on my part, I'm listening to Chantal Classic Techno(one of my faves) as I type, and I must say that the stereo is quite good, better than I've heard on other distros....at least that is my impression!
I really did NOT expect Compiz Fusion to work on this machine. It has NOT worked with the couple of other distros with which I've fiddled with Compiz Fusion, but....I gotta say...
It "just works"... I enabled floppy docs, cube rotation, animations and 3D windows with just mouse clicks and just work, simple as that.
Again, I have to emphasize that I have never been able to get Compiz Fusion to work on this machine before, so whatever tweaks have been made with Ultimate Edition have "got 'er done"! Bravo!
I'll do bluetooth next and see how it works, and that will be it for a while until I install on the other machines, but I'll come back and visit ....
And.....by the by....I just love the rotating cursor!
Calypso