If you're gonna go with bloat-ware, might as well use LinuxMint :]<br><br>in terms of video cards, It'll detect that you're using a generic driver for a card that has proprietary drivers, and ask you if you want to download/enable them. While I am a fan of Linux being more than a few clicks away from installation, for a desktop-distro, LinuxMint delivers - especially if you have the CPU and memory to accomodate a little bloat.<br>
<br>It's debian based, so you'll have access to a massive amount of repositories - however, since you seem to have some problems with broken packages, you should either investigate whether it's the distro, or your own fault. I, personally, have not had many problems with the stable branches that weren't my own misconfigurations or oversights. <br>
<br>it's easy to get burned out (at least for me) on any distro. I usually find myself swapping between various flavors of BSD and Linux once every two months or so. I usually find Debian and FreeBSD are the best ones to go with - their forks are pretty much always projects started by bored hackers and will never be as flexible or stable as their roots.<br>
<br>Good luck.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 June 2010 16:53, Collins Richey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crichey@gmail.com">crichey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:07 PM, David L. Willson <<a href="mailto:DLWillson@thegeek.nu">DLWillson@thegeek.nu</a>> wrote:<br>
> NVIDIA's downloadable drivers install just great on RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 / Fedora 6. What graphics do you have?<br>
><br>
> Everything else (except specific statements about "not Ubuntu") seems to indicate that you're looking for Ubuntu 8.04.4 or 9.10. :-) And remember that 10.04 will get better over time. There is no 10.03 that I'm aware of.<br>
><br>
> And have you tried SUSE 10?<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>NVIDIA's downloadable drivers install just great on almost any<br>
kernel/distro I've tried in recent years. Have you tried the latest<br>
PCLinuxOS? It's available with gnome/kde4/xfce/lxde/enlightenment<br>
desktop variants. I tried it to get a version of the latest kde4, and<br>
I put the lxde version on my netbook.<br>
<br>
A word to the wise. The latest version of Firefox has had a bug<br>
(outstanding for a LONG time) that causes excessive cpu utilization<br>
with NVIDIA cards only. I'm not sure whether this is PCLOS specific or<br>
generic, but there are scands of google entries. My desktop seldom<br>
drops below 18% cpu at idle. I've chosen to ignore it, since I have<br>
plenty of cpu power. No such probelm on the netbook (Intel video).<br>
<br>
A second word to the wise, you FOSS hardy types may be greatly<br>
offended. PCLOS does nothing to avoid the use of EVIL proprietary code<br>
where it makes sense to provide a better usr experience.<br>
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Collins Richey<br>
If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries<br>
of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.<br>
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