boydyboyd

i got my x-fi card to work, with the drivers that come with ubuntu 7.10

flac sounds great, all my music is in flac on my media hard drive and i can access it from ubuntu and windows.

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alk

After reading what you've been posting for the last 3 hours I've come to a conclusion:

You are a patronising, ignorant moron.

tweakboy

Recently 1500 tech testers PC Magazine tested all OSes , They said the fastest, most secure and stable OS is XP , Then its Vista , then MAC OSX then Linux,

Plus, linux what you gonna use it for ? No apps No games,, LOL

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boydyboyd

ok, you trust your 1500 'tech testers', i'll trust my opinion.

i use linux for everything other than games. But of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion

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xeonjon1608

Erm well all of that is untrue there are plenty of games that run on linux if you use WINE, and plus the eye candy on ubuntu is much better than Vista. I like linux alot but i think im gonna stick with Vista for the time being.

johnny9794

Man if Wine ran my cod and cod2 better than windows, which its laggy as hell and does not, I would be all over it like how i was all over ubuntu for a year just because I had a crap celeron d 1.7 that I could not game on anyhow.

I just downloaded ubuntu-8.04-alternate-amd64 just to stay in the breeze. I always download the new distro's, partition my drive, install to see how they are vs elder distro's.

But yea that is the only thing holding me back, maybe when I get my new processor and gfx card, wine will handle the games better? ionno but I sure will give it another shot with new hardware.

I love ubuntu but the gaming is what it is all about for I...

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lattyware

It's called Synaptic Package manager. You can do it all via a nice GUI with point and click ease. It is actually impossible to not be able to work out how to use that, unless you can not use a mouse or something.

Try not using the command line? You just don't need to in modern Linux. I do, as many do, because it makes our lives easier, but you don't have to these days. And 'learning' isn't hard, just search when you don't know and need to do something, and do it. Learn over time, by trial and error. It works.

Really? Wow. I really didn't know there was any support. Nice. FLAC rocks. I love having lossless music.

I honestly do try to refrain from personal insults, but here goes:

You, Sir, are an idiot.

These '1500 testers' you speak of, I can't find this article when I searched for it, and you have given no proof. Even if such a test exists, I bet that you are misquoting/misinterpreting it. In fact, the only thing I can find from PC magazine is this, which says MacOSX is the best OS, and then goes on to say Ubuntu is good for a number of roles. I disagree with a lot of what they say there, and think a lot of it is wrong or outdated, but still, It's not in any way a glowing victory for XP as you put it.

What are you going to use it for? Whatever you use a computer for. Browsing, Instant Messaging, Office Tools, Audio/Video playback/creation, Programming, Graphics work, Artwork, there is a huge list.

No Apps? That's just either extreme ignorance or plain lies. There is a huge range of extremely good software for Linux.

Don't state complete falsehoods please.

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boydyboyd

yep. on a 64 bit too. I signed a petition for creative to release 64 bit drivers for it online...somewhere.

but ill let you in on a secret, it was by luck. It wasn't working one day then i started to hear sound coming from my headphones that were on my desk. At first i thought it was a glitch and somehow the sound was coming up the mic jack but i knew that couldnt happen

now i use rhythmbox for all my music, unless im playing a game then i use foobar2000 (in vista)

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johnny9794

man the cmds are fun, like if u need something u don't gotta browse web looking for it, its in the repositories.

sudo apt-get install nmap

its to easy!!!

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biatchi

The X-fi's work perfectly using Oss4 instead of Alsa

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