Elementary OS vs Windows 8

SauRoNZA said:
Try using the full versions then rather than the betas.



Its a little unfair comparing a development release to a fully patched and "old" OS like Windows 8.
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It runs perfectly on all my machines except this one. If I can't use Freya then I will skip elementary all together and just use windows.

( The reason I want to use Freya is because I want to learn linux, but I am full of shait if it looks k@k then I am not interested and this is the first OS apart from OSX that actually caught my attention. )

( The previous version wont work either all my ubuntu based installs on this machine gets same issue )
 
Necuno said:
Not even booting from grub to terminal?
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I am a total noob and die hard windows user looking to convert to linux, so with that said, you are talking greece. ( I know what the terminal is thou. I use that to ssh )
 
Thor187 said:
I am a total noob and die hard windows user looking to convert to linux, so with that said, you are talking greece. ( I know what the terminal is thou. I use that to ssh )
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That's ok. I'm still on level 1 from level 0, but as I said getting x to play along with your display can be a bit of an effort. However when that is done and you are finally in x its going to go all better. I'm nouveau is giving you the ****ters which tends to happen sometimes... GL I'm going to keel some aliens :D
 
Necuno said:
Its telling you to change expected display from nouveau (community opensource display driver) to software afaik. Basically what one would do before going over to propriety drivers and then blacklisting nouveau.
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Step 3 is what's bugging me, what menu is this exactly ? MY installation from the USB boots into eOS then asks Try or Install then Try slected it will blank screen, install selected it will hang and ultimately blank screen
 
Necuno said:
That's ok. I'm still on level 1 from level 0, but as I said getting x to play along with your display can be a bit of an effort. However when that is done and you are finally in x its going to go all better. I'm nouveau is giving you the ****ters which tends to happen sometimes... GL I'm going to keel some aliens :D
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HEhehe Thanks for pointing out the badboy I will google now:)
 
Thor187 said:
Step 3 is what's bugging me, what menu is this exactly ? MY installation from the USB boots into eOS then asks Try or Install then Try slected it will blank screen, install selected it will hang and ultimately blank screen
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Boot menu (grub). Normally that boring black and white menu where you could choose linux, other kernels and windows. You want to bypass the automatic boot and change how things are going to boot. That is editing the linux kernel part and telling it you don't want quite, but rather you want nomodeset which should skip the whole nouveau thing.
 
garyc said:
Out of curiosity I went to their site to download and try it. The first thing that they asked was for my email address and credit card number for payment. Clicking another option resulted in them asking for my phone number.

This is totally against the spirit of the Linux community. If donations are asked for then it is mentioned rather than having a paywall in place. It is probably possible to specify a zero payment, but I decided that was I was not interested anymore.

The clincher was their blog post, where they state "an entire operating system that has taken years of development and refinement is worth funding". This OS is a derivative of Ubuntu, but they don't mention how much of the money will passed on to Canonical (I suspect none).
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/ele...lementaryos-freya-amd64.20150411.iso/download
 
Best thing to do is to stick it out and see how you can fix it rather than just quitting and going back to windows. If you want to learn linux, learn where it can go wrong and how you can fix it. Took me 3 days to get debian in a good working state being through dependency hell and weird errors. However at end of that I knew a little more and at least could setup a display driver, fixup grub and not ****up the dependency manager :D

Then when I went over to linux mint I could apply some of the those and I was not a total noob any more. Just get over this display hurdle and its going to go better and better. google google google and try try try :D
 
Necuno said:
Boot menu (grub). Normally that boring black and white menu where you could choose linux, other kernels and windows. You want to bypass the automatic boot and change how things are going to boot. That is editing the linux kernel part and telling it you don't want quite, but rather you want nomodeset which should skip the whole nouveau thing.
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Thats the thing, it appeared like once, then after that never again just went straight into eOS
 
Fingers crossed
 

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Nope, I accessed that alt f1 thing.


But those commands dont work I get all sorts of errors
 
Defuq is cow ?
 

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Ok, 64bit is right then. Hows your sata controller set in the bios. Ahci, ide or legacy?
 
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