On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:58:45AM -0600, Noah Duffy wrote:
>
> Sam, I went with Stable. I picked it mostly because I'm newer to Debian
> specifically. I also like the idea of not having to think about
> upgrading to a new release every 6 months. If I feel I need the latest
> and greatest of so
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 11:38 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2011 11:18:47 Sam Leon wrote:
> > I honestly don't know how in the world my sound even works. I don't have
> > pulseaudio or jack or any other daemons installed:
>
> ALSA is sufficient in many desktop situa
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 11:18:47 Sam Leon wrote:
> I honestly don't know how in the world my sound even works. I don't have
> pulseaudio or jack or any other daemons installed:
ALSA is sufficient in many desktop situations. PulsaAudio has some nice stuff
for sound over a network. Jack is
On 02/16/2011 01:58 AM, Noah Duffy wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 23:55 -0600, Sam Leon wrote:
>>
>> I think it just depends on what you are wanting to accomplish. I
left MS
>> because their OS just tries too hard to do everything for me (and tries
>> too hard to take my money). I left ubuntu be
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 11:47:35 Doug wrote:
> You might want to look at MINT before you commit to Debian. It's derived
> from Ubuntu, but in general doesn't follow the craziness of Ubuntu. Like,
> the windows buttons are on the right, where they belong. And I doubt
> that they will go to
On 02/16/2011 01:58 AM, Noah Duffy wrote:
[snip]
Well, I got one problem solved. Got the nVidia drivers installed with
no problem at all!
Using the nvidia-glx appropriate to your card?
:)
Excellent...
My next experiment will have to be with
Pulse
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 23:55 -0600, Sam Leon wrote:
> On 02/15/2011 09:36 PM, Noah Duffy wrote:
> > Hello, all. I've been an Ubuntu user for quite awhile. Linux has
> > been my only OS for over a year now (and I've been using it on and off
> > longer than that). I've recently gotten the itch to s
On 02/15/2011 09:36 PM, Noah Duffy wrote:
Hello, all. I've been an Ubuntu user for quite awhile. Linux has
been my only OS for over a year now (and I've been using it on and off
longer than that). I've recently gotten the itch to switch to Debian.
Ubuntu has worked quite well for me, but wit
On 02/15/2011 07:36 PM, Noah Duffy wrote:
Secondly, I'm going to have to figure out exactly how to install the
nVidia drivers for my video card. I've seen that I can do it manually
or with the non-free repository. I haven't tried the first method,
but installing nvidia-glx just seemed to cause
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 02/15/2011 10:36 PM, Noah Duffy wrote:
>>
>> Hello, all. ?I've been an Ubuntu user for quite awhile. ?Linux has
>> been my only OS for over a year now (and I've been using it on and off
>> longer than that). ?I've recently gotten the itch to switch
On 02/15/2011 10:36 PM, Noah Duffy wrote:
Hello, all. I've been an Ubuntu user for quite awhile. Linux has
been my only OS for over a year now (and I've been using it on and off
longer than that). I've recently gotten the itch to switch to Debian.
Ubuntu has worked quite well for me, but wit
Hello, all. I've been an Ubuntu user for quite awhile. Linux has
been my only OS for over a year now (and I've been using it on and off
longer than that). I've recently gotten the itch to switch to Debian.
Ubuntu has worked quite well for me, but with everything that is
going on with Unity and
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