New Poll: What difficulties do you experience with Linux?
Check out the sidebar. I made a new poll wondering what difficulties you are experiencing with Linux. It would be a good place to start talking about what needs to improve in how we use Linux, as well as what developers could continue in improving.
Personally, it’s wifi that I’ve been bothered with. But with Gutsy, things have been better but it’s been difficult sometimes. I have to check with the sys ads if it’s the networking setup that was wonky. We have internet service from two providers and I am not too sure about the failover setup.
Dual-booting has always been my pain especially with lost data. But it’s my fault because I hibernate my laptop and forget about it. I should get myself an external harddrive, really. So that I could store all my data there and it won’t matter so much because I’d have to remove it after a while so I’d always be able to unmount it from the laptop.
Let’s share some tips when it comes to these difficulties, ok? :)
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5 opinions for New Poll: What difficulties do you experience with Linux?
timelady
Nov 4, 2007 at 4:48 am
Not seeing the poll. For me, it is specifically getting fglrx happening to render desktop effects and allow me to run Neverwinter Nights effectively and natively. Le sigh. Normal graphics are working under ati driver.
alvlin
Nov 5, 2007 at 5:21 am
Well, being a Linux user for the last 5 years, I was never able to get my scanner (and old Genius ColorPage, parallel port) working, my printer (Cannon i320, *sometimes* works with TurboPrint) and my webcam (an EyeToy for PS2).
I almost never use the scanner or the printer. But the cam thing is really annoying. I’m thinking on buying a cheap more or less generic camera to use with my linux system.
Clair
Nov 5, 2007 at 10:08 am
@timelady I can’t relate with the gaming thing. I don’t really play games much ^_^v Waah. I hope you could see the poll so you could vote. If not, maybe I could mark it for you?
@alvlin I don’t really use other devices much like webcams and scanners (but my sister does) so I couldn’t relate much. But I’ve read about troubles with webcams, even to the point of people compiling a kernel but sometimes it doesn’t work out either. So yeah, you might as well try getting a generic camera if you want a webcam functionality going on. I hope you find a good one that works well with your system.
TimVB
Nov 6, 2007 at 7:25 am
I chose ‘WiFi’ but since Gutsy it’s been working okay, though I have yet to play with WPA. And the scanner on my all-in-one is now working, but I downloaded Epson’s own I-scan software because SANE is a) complicated and b) made poor quality scans and very large files, slowly!
My biggest problem is memory. I have 256MB RAM, and under GNOME with a few things open (Firefox and one or two OpenOffice.org files) things can get a bit slow. Xfce is better.
Clair
Nov 6, 2007 at 9:01 am
@TimVB Yeah, Gnome wouldn’t be a good choice for your 256MB RAM. Xfce would be better but because it’s following the Gnome trend, it might still be considerably slow. Have you ever considered using something like Openbox with Pypanel (or another dock)? It might be lighter for your system :)
Regarding WPA, I used to have problems connecting here in the office when we changed from WEP to WPA but now it’s ok in Gutsy. :D As for scanning, I’ve only tried Xsane once. And that was it. I don’t remember anything much, really.
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