Nix Question

[SupermanJnk]

I've decided since the last time I played a game on my computer was about 2 months ago, that i'm going to install linux on it. I have red hat 9, but I don't know that I really want to use it, I am considering Gentoo, or debian (I know debian will be pushed by a certain member) I'm looking for ease of configuring, and ease of use. (I'd rather not have to compile it myself) Any Sugestions. (it's been about a year since I touched nix)

[Tobalaz]

Well, I'd say Suse if you want a newb friendly distro, Debian if you just want to dive right in.
Suse has yast for installation, and Debian has appget, which is nice as well. Those are my recomendations.
Kirky says Debian, I don't even have to ask to know that one.

[SupermanJnk]

Well, I'd say Suse if you want a newb friendly distro, Debian if you just want to dive right in.
Suse has yast for installation, and Debian has appget, which is nice as well. Those are my recomendations.
Kirky says Debian, I don't even have to ask to know that one.

It's not so much that I want newb friendly, I enjoy a challenge, and if I can't figure it out I'll go back to windows, I used to run redhat on my second box before it blew up. (besides google is my friend) Mostly, I want something stable, something that doesn't use a lot of resources and is fast (speed is what i'm looking for most) i still haven't decided which distro i'm going to use yet.

also anyone know of any good photoshop type programs for linux?

[Tobalaz]

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). It's a bit different from photoshop, but you can do just as many things with it if not more, and it's FREE!

[d0nk`]

I would reccomend trying ubuntu linux. It's a really nice modern distro, aimed at the average user (skill between newbie-who-wants-a-non-noob-distro to linux veteran) - I use ubuntu, and it is very nice. Also, it is based off of debian

htt://www.ubuntulinux.org/

If you want a more newb friendly distro (and a more "industry standard" distro) i would reccomend fedora (http://fedora.redhat.com) (it is the "new" redhat, as redhat only sells enterprise linux under the rh name now)

SuSe is also good, like tobalaz said.

[SupermanJnk]

I ended up going with SUSE, Got it installed no problems, now i'm trying to configure it to my liking.

[Scale]

I ended up going with SUSE, Got it installed no problems, now i'm trying to configure it to my liking.

I also just got SUSE yesterday. Looks like I'm going to be stuck in Linux for a while now, when I try to boot into Windows it says unrecognized filesystem, partition 0x7. Whatever that means. I Googled it and people say that resizing an NTFS partition is risky. I've got all my data still but I don't know what's going on with Windows.

I also can't seem to get 5.1 sound, the volume wheel on my keyboard, my mouse wheel and my mouse thumb button working. Trying to download and install programs is hell, I managed to figure out Firefox but I have no clue about gaim and Wine complains about missing DLLs and ActiveX controls whenever I try to run anything ( so far, City of Heroes, AIM for Windows, and Photoshop CS ).

But so far I'm like this. It's like Mac OS X and Windows XP combined.

[Tobalaz]

Kirky recomends the bouncing cow open gl scerensaver, just as long as you're not running a gforce 4 mx gpu. :D