Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS

[foozball3000]

Well, although my MICROSOFT Sidewinder mouse works with Ububtu... most of its features doesn't, as in I can't customize them.
M/S obviously (and on purpose) doesn't give Linux (Ubuntu) support. So, now I can't set my scroll speed, or what the extra buttons does..
As I can't program in C and lack The Force... I can't build my own driver. Does anyone know where I can start looking for driver support? Someone else must have had the problem as well...

 

[headsore]

Everything works out of the box. You may need to install a virtual box for CS3, are do some wine trickery. I know Google are putting money into porting CS3 to linux.. but this is one of those apps you will need to virtualize.


Its hard to adjust from a windows environment to a linux one. Not enough games for linux . It doesnt like Access databases... and I have had a couple of problems getting it to play nicely with Active directory.

Okay. Just to get an idea. My mom in fact, is the one in the house using vista, and she's getting rather annoyed with it, particually as the PC isnt the fastest around. So going to be installing Ubuntu onto it. She just needs the basics and wants those basics to work well, which sadly when opening up MS Word results in nearly freezing other windows, is not the case with Vista.

Everyone seems very positive about Ubuntu which is great, so I'll do it. My road to become a linux fan quite possibly.

 

[.Froot.]

Sorry guys just reposting my question as it got lost up there:

How is it to use Ubuntu for normal use..i.e using OO, Firefox, Thunderbird? I know connectivity has been improved so I take that is faultless? What if you want products like CS3 or something similar?

What are the problems with ubuntu, if you can mention something?

The last I heard CS3 was not supported yet by WINE or Crossover.

 

[headsore]

Oh okay. Well that's kinda okay. That was a long shot hehe.

 

[hawker]

Okay. Just to get an idea. My mom in fact, is the one in the house using vista, and she's getting rather annoyed with it, particually as the PC isnt the fastest around. So going to be installing Ubuntu onto it. She just needs the basics and wants those basics to work well, which sadly when opening up MS Word results in nearly freezing other windows, is not the case with Vista.

Everyone seems very positive about Ubuntu which is great, so I'll do it. My road to become a linux fan quite possibly.

Well ubuntu should suit you just fine if she is doing email and word processing

And you don't have to worry about her getting dodgey virii and stuff

 

[headsore]

hehe thats all I want. Simply, fast, easy. Which to anyone = happy.
Thanks guys.

 

[Nod]

Well, although my MICROSOFT Sidewinder mouse works with Ububtu... most of its features doesn't, as in I can't customize them.
M/S obviously (and on purpose) doesn't give Linux (Ubuntu) support. So, now I can't set my scroll speed, or what the extra buttons does..
As I can't program in C and lack The Force... I can't build my own driver. Does anyone know where I can start looking for driver support? Someone else must have had the problem as well...

http://www.linux.com/feature/126295
http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Computing/ExtraMouseButtons
Forum with more info:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-9457.html

 

[Tassidar]

hehe thats all I want. Simply, fast, easy. Which to anyone = happy.
Thanks guys.

Easiest thing is to try it out. Really easy. Just get a live CD, put it in the drive, and it will boot to a running copy.

With wubi (windows ubuntu installation), you can install linux through windows, and if you don't like it, just remove it through add/remove programmes in windows (haven't tried it myself)

FF works well.
Ubuntu comes with Evolution which is the approx equivalent of Outlook, but I would recommend using Thunderbird, which allows you to easily import profiles and even keep the same profile for both your windows and linux installation.

Open Office is very similar to previous versions of MS Office, so anyone who is used to Office shouldn't struggle. With Ubuntu 8.10, you'll want to download the latest OO - version 3.

For someone who has never used a PC before, I would say that once correctly configured, Ubuntu is easier to use than Windows.

 

[headsore]

Thank you, got some more q's, but going to create a new thread as im highjacking this one atm..

 

[CrzWaco]

With wubi (windows ubuntu installation), you can install linux through windows, and if you don't like it, just remove it through add/remove programmes in windows (haven't tried it myself)

This works pretty well have done it and so far I am happy but I have no idea what will happen when my windows goes corrupt on me again.