I think the problem I had in my particular instance was two-fold: 1: I was following the Gentoo documentation explicitely, and it was lagging behind with regards to the 2.6.x kernels and the emu10k1 drivers (Audigy 2 Platinum) and 2: because I was following this documentation so religiously, I didn't deviate from my path and look through the kernel config options. I don't believe (back in the day) that the 2.4 kernels had the emu10k1 drivers right there. You used to have to emerge them separately (this could have been a Gentoo specific problem). So really, my problems were all the result of a misunderstanding and blind faith, something I'll try to never do again.
As a side note, I HAVE had problems with Slackware and Fedora and my sound card - I have to turn the mixer way up to the top and my speakers up about 3/4s of the way to actually get the proper level of sound I'm supposed to get. I can't explain it. I can dual boot back into windows and turn the speakers back down and everything is fine. But in those two distros, things were all sorts of crazy.
My biggest problem with linux is more the fact that, when faced with some weird quirk, it's nearly impossible, for a new user, to figure there way around it unless they spend hours, days, or weeks working on it. I've only ever had maybe 2 problems in Windows that required that amount of time, and that was way back when I started using Windows 95.
As a sibling stated, this IS a Linux problem. Is it a kernel problem? Absolutely not! Is it problem with the "Linux Experience"? Absolutely. I don't blame any of the open source developers for this. I do, however, blame the current environment. Whether you - or anyone - in the Linux community can do anything to rectify this situation is completely moot. The question is "do new users frequently run into these problems?" - and the answer is a resounding "yes!"
So then people say "use a more userfriendly distribution!" - a valid response. Until you start to realize that eventually, when the user DOES outgrow the bundled packages, they're going to have to start installing applications themselves. Even Fedora (Core 1) had dependency hell issues at times with various applications. Was this the distributions fault? No. It was the application-in-question's fault for not being able to keep up with the thousands of Linux configurations out there. It's their fault, but it's completely understandable that they often times run behind. That doesn't change the fact that it's often completely fucking impossible for someone who ISN'T a master of Linux to figure out the problem. With the more user-friendly distributions (like, say, SuSE), you go from extremely-easy-to-use to wtfomgbbqh4x. The learning curve from "novice" to "master" is absolutely insane. If Windows learning curve is y = x, then the general "Linux experience" learning curve is y = x^7. Is it any one person's fault? No. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Do I have a way to fix it? No. That doesn't mean it isn't there.
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Surely "prettier" is a subjective term. I took one look at the screen shots and blurted out "...what the fuck!"
I guess I just have vastly different aesthetic tastes than the Windows UI designers. Sucks to be me.
Sound chipsets often don't work in windows. However, I've found double clicking a setup.exe file and clicking a few dialog boxes is a bit faster than going through the configurations on various Linux distributions.
With that said, however, things with Linux distributions that aren't SuSE or Fedora seem to be coming together fairly quickly. The last time I had a Linux system running in my house was about 8 months ago (Gentoo), and I did have sound problems (the Gentoo documentation wasn't updated, and the method they have for installing emu10k1 with the 2.6.x kernel is flat out wrong - but I wasn't aware of that at the time). I spent a few days working on it. That's a few days vs. a few minutes (including downloading the right drivers from Creative (in my case)). It's alot "slicker" on Windows, but, again, things are getting a lot better in the Linux world. I have faith they'll eventually catch up. But not unless people honestly admit there are flaws and they need to be rectified. Too many fanboys are zealously arguing that any criticism of Linux is amounting to blasphemy. How can things get better if any criticism is immediately denounced as FUD? Just because something works fine for them doesn't mean it works fine for everyone.
I donno about that. A door knob that advertises security but fails to protect against someone turning it and opening the door, even while locked, is pretty valid. That's pretty gross negligence on that company's part, though.
With the exception of the Sci-Fi channel, the only stations I watch are CBS and Fox, and that's only during the football season. Other than that, I honestly don't give a fuck. If I could get the Sci-Fi channel by itself, you can bet I would.
I pay 50$ a month now for 1.5mbps/160kbps. No matter what, my upload is capped at 160kbps. There's nothing I can do to make that better. DSL is a joke around here; the wires are so pathetic you can barely make phone calls without line noise (and this is from a wide variety of houses, including brand new ones (well, one)). Up until two years ago, it was 70$ a month for 1.5mbps/128kbps (that was the best we could get then, too).
All in all, that sounds about right. However, I have NO idea how much 100$ USD actually gets you in Poland. For all I know, it could be the price of a Ferrari.
Don't forget the part about where he beats his wife and has an old firebird up on cinderblocks in the front yard. Or the mullet.
Actually, I'm surprised our friend Cletus here even managed to work the internet. I didn't think inbred redneck fucks could figure anything out more complicated than a TV.
Aye. I mean, sure, he doesn't need the money. Period. If he thinks he needs it, then I'm sorry, he's fucking stupid. But I'll tell you somebody who needs it even less: corporate fuckers trying to screw someone over just because they think they can. Maybe Pete will donate it to charity or something. Maybe he'll buy a gold toilet. I'd still rather see him get it than some money grubbing whores who obviously can't be trusted*.
But, but, but...he owns a small business! That means he's automatically qualified to know who is right and wrong, even if he didn't read the text of the law suit!
Oh, if only our courts were run by small business owners. We wouldn't have to have trials at all!
Bullshit. No journalist, anywhere, ever, has completely and utterly separated his bias from every article he's ever written. It's impossible. Sure, you should try for an unbiased point of view - try your hardest - but to think that anyone could be completely unbiased is completely unrealistic.
Gamers do. No one wants to fight tooth and nail for hours/days to find a keygen that works. Why bother? Just buy the fucking game.
Now the OS, that's different. I don't know of anyone who has purchased that, aside from the guy who bought an Alienware nigh on 3 years ago. "Whoops", he said. "I'll never do that again."
The extra pin doesn't make much of a difference. And I believe you read wrong; it used to be that the Athlon 64's were 754, the Athlon FX's were 940. Eventually they swapped everything over to the 939 (excepting the Opterons, which use the extra pin for the registered memory (I think)). Gamers won't benefit (and may lose out) by using an Opteron (just because of the registered memory), and I assume you're a gamer, with all the high-end hardware you just picked up. You're fine with 939.
Summary:
754: Old Athlon 64's
940: Opterons (and maybe the old FX's - the more I think about it, the fuzzier I get on this)
939: New Athlon 64's and FX's
Also, Venice and San Diego are the first cores to incorporate SSE3 instructions. I don't know what that means, but it's one more than SSE2! (seriously, though: SSE3)
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I think the problem I had in my particular instance was two-fold: 1: I was following the Gentoo documentation explicitely, and it was lagging behind with regards to the 2.6.x kernels and the emu10k1 drivers (Audigy 2 Platinum) and 2: because I was following this documentation so religiously, I didn't deviate from my path and look through the kernel config options. I don't believe (back in the day) that the 2.4 kernels had the emu10k1 drivers right there. You used to have to emerge them separately (this could have been a Gentoo specific problem). So really, my problems were all the result of a misunderstanding and blind faith, something I'll try to never do again.
As a side note, I HAVE had problems with Slackware and Fedora and my sound card - I have to turn the mixer way up to the top and my speakers up about 3/4s of the way to actually get the proper level of sound I'm supposed to get. I can't explain it. I can dual boot back into windows and turn the speakers back down and everything is fine. But in those two distros, things were all sorts of crazy.
My biggest problem with linux is more the fact that, when faced with some weird quirk, it's nearly impossible, for a new user, to figure there way around it unless they spend hours, days, or weeks working on it. I've only ever had maybe 2 problems in Windows that required that amount of time, and that was way back when I started using Windows 95.
As a sibling stated, this IS a Linux problem. Is it a kernel problem? Absolutely not! Is it problem with the "Linux Experience"? Absolutely. I don't blame any of the open source developers for this. I do, however, blame the current environment. Whether you - or anyone - in the Linux community can do anything to rectify this situation is completely moot. The question is "do new users frequently run into these problems?" - and the answer is a resounding "yes!"
So then people say "use a more userfriendly distribution!" - a valid response. Until you start to realize that eventually, when the user DOES outgrow the bundled packages, they're going to have to start installing applications themselves. Even Fedora (Core 1) had dependency hell issues at times with various applications. Was this the distributions fault? No. It was the application-in-question's fault for not being able to keep up with the thousands of Linux configurations out there. It's their fault, but it's completely understandable that they often times run behind. That doesn't change the fact that it's often completely fucking impossible for someone who ISN'T a master of Linux to figure out the problem. With the more user-friendly distributions (like, say, SuSE), you go from extremely-easy-to-use to wtfomgbbqh4x. The learning curve from "novice" to "master" is absolutely insane. If Windows learning curve is y = x, then the general "Linux experience" learning curve is y = x^7. Is it any one person's fault? No. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Do I have a way to fix it? No. That doesn't mean it isn't there.
Surely "prettier" is a subjective term. I took one look at the screen shots and blurted out "...what the fuck!"
I guess I just have vastly different aesthetic tastes than the Windows UI designers. Sucks to be me.
err, genitalia, rather. I better get back to learning how to spell.
True enough, but like PR departments everywhere, they're staffed entirely by walking genetalia. :(
Sound chipsets often don't work in windows. However, I've found double clicking a setup.exe file and clicking a few dialog boxes is a bit faster than going through the configurations on various Linux distributions.
With that said, however, things with Linux distributions that aren't SuSE or Fedora seem to be coming together fairly quickly. The last time I had a Linux system running in my house was about 8 months ago (Gentoo), and I did have sound problems (the Gentoo documentation wasn't updated, and the method they have for installing emu10k1 with the 2.6.x kernel is flat out wrong - but I wasn't aware of that at the time). I spent a few days working on it. That's a few days vs. a few minutes (including downloading the right drivers from Creative (in my case)). It's alot "slicker" on Windows, but, again, things are getting a lot better in the Linux world. I have faith they'll eventually catch up. But not unless people honestly admit there are flaws and they need to be rectified. Too many fanboys are zealously arguing that any criticism of Linux is amounting to blasphemy. How can things get better if any criticism is immediately denounced as FUD? Just because something works fine for them doesn't mean it works fine for everyone.
The study of idiots. How appropriate.
I donno about that. A door knob that advertises security but fails to protect against someone turning it and opening the door, even while locked, is pretty valid. That's pretty gross negligence on that company's part, though.
You mean it wasn't designed with the gate in mind?!
Stupid non-Ancients...
With the exception of the Sci-Fi channel, the only stations I watch are CBS and Fox, and that's only during the football season. Other than that, I honestly don't give a fuck. If I could get the Sci-Fi channel by itself, you can bet I would.
Well, at least he'll keep my neighbor's donkey's ears warm.
Just out of curiousity, but, is that USD?
I pay 50$ a month now for 1.5mbps/160kbps. No matter what, my upload is capped at 160kbps. There's nothing I can do to make that better. DSL is a joke around here; the wires are so pathetic you can barely make phone calls without line noise (and this is from a wide variety of houses, including brand new ones (well, one)). Up until two years ago, it was 70$ a month for 1.5mbps/128kbps (that was the best we could get then, too).
All in all, that sounds about right. However, I have NO idea how much 100$ USD actually gets you in Poland. For all I know, it could be the price of a Ferrari.
Don't forget the part about where he beats his wife and has an old firebird up on cinderblocks in the front yard. Or the mullet.
Actually, I'm surprised our friend Cletus here even managed to work the internet. I didn't think inbred redneck fucks could figure anything out more complicated than a TV.
Well, considering I saw 256mb sticks of ram on newegg.com for 7.99 a few days ago, I'm not so sure it's really such a big deal. :]
I'd rather have a balrog chasing me than a lawyer. :|
Aye. I mean, sure, he doesn't need the money. Period. If he thinks he needs it, then I'm sorry, he's fucking stupid. But I'll tell you somebody who needs it even less: corporate fuckers trying to screw someone over just because they think they can. Maybe Pete will donate it to charity or something. Maybe he'll buy a gold toilet. I'd still rather see him get it than some money grubbing whores who obviously can't be trusted*.
*Provided the evidence "proves" as such.
Nice. Don't push an elephant until it starts to stumble.
Then again, even if an elephant was stumbling and I shoved it, I'm still not so sure it would do all that much.
But, but, but...he owns a small business! That means he's automatically qualified to know who is right and wrong, even if he didn't read the text of the law suit!
Oh, if only our courts were run by small business owners. We wouldn't have to have trials at all!
Jackass.
Bullshit. No journalist, anywhere, ever, has completely and utterly separated his bias from every article he's ever written. It's impossible. Sure, you should try for an unbiased point of view - try your hardest - but to think that anyone could be completely unbiased is completely unrealistic.
Gamers do. No one wants to fight tooth and nail for hours/days to find a keygen that works. Why bother? Just buy the fucking game.
Now the OS, that's different. I don't know of anyone who has purchased that, aside from the guy who bought an Alienware nigh on 3 years ago. "Whoops", he said. "I'll never do that again."
The extra pin doesn't make much of a difference. And I believe you read wrong; it used to be that the Athlon 64's were 754, the Athlon FX's were 940. Eventually they swapped everything over to the 939 (excepting the Opterons, which use the extra pin for the registered memory (I think)). Gamers won't benefit (and may lose out) by using an Opteron (just because of the registered memory), and I assume you're a gamer, with all the high-end hardware you just picked up. You're fine with 939.
Summary:
754: Old Athlon 64's
940: Opterons (and maybe the old FX's - the more I think about it, the fuzzier I get on this)
939: New Athlon 64's and FX's
Also, Venice and San Diego are the first cores to incorporate SSE3 instructions. I don't know what that means, but it's one more than SSE2! (seriously, though: SSE3)
It is? I thought the Opterons were for servers. This is for gaming. This is for making punk bitches suck it down. Not XXX bitches sucking it down.
Naw, that's what silk is for.
I don't think a person in a mansion is going to want to fill their library with paper back books.