- Mar 12, 2013
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Ubuntu is the only linux distro i have ever tried.. the first one i tried was 11.10 and i was pretty impressed by it.. but then i lost that disk and downloaded 12.04 LTS.. and i must say it has been the worst computing experience i've ever had in my life.. My USB modem Reliance Netconnect which worked perfectly in 11.10 doesn't work in 12.04 and it is the only means i hav of connecting to the internet.. Also 12.04 is badly broken for me.. I have weird display problems.. resolution keeps changing automatically.. sometimes the screen shifts out of the monitor frame.. One day i had 12 or 13 consecutive crashes .. every application i ran.. crashed without any reason.. Compiz, nautilus, gedit, even the report crash utility crashed..
i then purged compiz from my PC and went back to using the the Unity 2D interface.. that fixed a lot of stuff.. but since there was no internet connectivity.. i couldn't download anything, and since ubuntu doesn't ship with media codecs.. i couldn't play any of my music or videos.. i dunno why these guys don't ship with vlc installed.
So basically after installing ubuntu i had a PC taht couldn't connect to the internet, couldn't play my music, my videos.. and kept crashing every 5 minutes.. So i went to back to using Windows.. old faithfull.. now everything works fine.. although i must add that i miss the 5 second boot time and 2 second shut down time that ubuntu had..
I wanna try linux once more. What distro do you guys recommend.
1. MUST have good support for wireless cards (mines a ZTE)
2. Must play all popular media formats out of the box
3. Low on resources
i then purged compiz from my PC and went back to using the the Unity 2D interface.. that fixed a lot of stuff.. but since there was no internet connectivity.. i couldn't download anything, and since ubuntu doesn't ship with media codecs.. i couldn't play any of my music or videos.. i dunno why these guys don't ship with vlc installed.
So basically after installing ubuntu i had a PC taht couldn't connect to the internet, couldn't play my music, my videos.. and kept crashing every 5 minutes.. So i went to back to using Windows.. old faithfull.. now everything works fine.. although i must add that i miss the 5 second boot time and 2 second shut down time that ubuntu had..
I wanna try linux once more. What distro do you guys recommend.
1. MUST have good support for wireless cards (mines a ZTE)
2. Must play all popular media formats out of the box
3. Low on resources