Which version of Linux you guys use?
 

Which version of Linux you guys use? Trying to get a graphics card to work on my Ubuntu 12.04 is driving me nuts.

Arch Linux

Debian ftw

Ubuntu on notebook
CentOS on most servers

latest linux mint always works for me :thumbsup

Mepis (Debian stable)

no linux for me

cent os on one of my desktop and on server.

On servers? CentOS of course.

FreeBSD.

*ducks*

Server - Cent Os
Desktop - Linux Mint
For some reason slackware won as most popular desktop choice on linuxquestions,which i find totaly weird considering it's spartan version of linux like freebsd.Anyway,i suggest you to try linux mint as linux mint is based on ubuntu and it's not so buggy as ubuntu.

If Ubuntu fails Linux Mint would be a good and easy to use alternative. It has a more standard (I believe KDE) desktop, Ubuntu has a custom one. CentOS for secure servers, Debian for smaller servers built for speed.

Good luck!

I will give that a try. I have an Nvidia card. I get Xblink. Blinking windows in XWindows. Tried and APT GET UPDATE.

I also tried APT-GET INSTALL NVIDIA-CURRENT. This worked on my version I had on a thumb drive. But for some reason on my new install on my drive, I get an error when trying to get NVIDIA-CURRENT.

I may keep at it a while. Thanks for the input.

LUBUNTU solved some issues with a graphics card on a laptop I have - Not sure how or why - It just seems to work when UBUNTU will not...

Thanks EddyTheDog. I am gonna try LUBUNTU. You steered me right on wpxtube, That was my first wordpress site.

No guarantees I am afraid - If you just want to play with Linux you are better off using a virtual machine - That will defiantly work - http://www.traffictool.net/vmware/ is a good place to start...

Desktop Linux Mint works great, server CentOS or Debian and FreeBSD.

i cant afford a linux... :(

ubuntu 12.10

I have tried it on 2 systems and it is slow as hell - Not sure what is going on with it...

im using it for server, not desktop, so not sure which one you are using.

Boot into your BIOS and check the graphics settings. Change it from Optimus to Discrete.

if i tell u....will u hack me. :pimp

Fedora 18, looking good. And debian wheezy on the 150+ raspberry's

CentOS 8 char

Good choice for desktop. Bleeding edge. The others in trying to make it simple make it complex when something goes wrong.

Freebsd of course :) PCBSD for the netbook, freebsd for everything else including servers.

Fedora and Ubuntu.

Redhat, April Fools. FreeBSD for lyfe mother fuckers.

Arch Linux on Laptop/Desktop
CentOS on Servers

KDE or Gnome as desktop?
Gnome (2x) needs less resources

Just installed the newest version of StudioUbuntu on my new desktop. I don't use it for much, just wanted a box that could run anything.

And xfce even less.

Fedora (due to its tie to Redhat) have very good support for GPU. That is one of the reasons I use it on some of my systems, where GPU acceleration is important.

But the Xubuntu is my favorit.
Its SO light, easy to use and quick. The interface is much better than Ununuts terrible Gnome3 GUI

I lost track of this thread. Can't believe I missed this. Thanks Barry.

Ubuntu. And it is the most popular

OSX!!!!1111oneoneoen

LOLOLOLOL

Arch
Formerly Gentoo... but yeah...

the same...

Women make up 51 percent of the population, and because of this, Linux should be banned in government. Operating Systems like Linux discriminate against women because of a built in difficulty compared with Windows and Apple's OS X. Women pay taxes, and therefore shouldn't be discriminated against in getting employment with government agencies. If these agencies had used Windows or OS X, more women would be able to persue dreams of a full time job in government. Linux is by its nature a man's domain. Women are designed to use social interaction and emotions to deal with complex tasks, things the command line are ill suited. OS X, and Windows have friendly and female-intuitive designs that take into account a woman's understanding of objects, ie. folders, desktops, Clippy, the XP search dog. These help women operate the computer by giving her a relationship with these icons, and helpful animated pets. It makes a woman feel at home with her computer by allowing her to relate to it. Linux, on the other hand is designed for command line and programming. Sure, it may have a fugly GUI to hide its true being, but to get any serious work done you must know a bunch of arcane commands with hundreds of options that change with every command. Something like this: chmod a+rwx. Only engineers can understand this. And most engineers are still men. This puts the female population at a great disadvantage when applying for work. Men know this, and that's why they deliberately try to install linux in the workplace. How would women's groups react when they read the studies that are being commissioned by industry on this very subject? Surely, women, when they learn of this, will outvote men and ban linux from the government.

ubuntu work pc, centos server pc

backtrack when people piss me off

I dont remember my linux, but that was a good times.

Ubuntu 12.10 with Gnome 3, which has grown on me.

Ubuntu ---

:winkwink: im using BT5 too for desktop for server using centOS