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May 3rd, 2008

What operating system are you running? Why?

Mint Linux and XP Pro (dual boot on a Gateway 600ygr laptop with 2 hard drives), and Mandriva Spring 8.1 (a.k.a Mandrake Linux) on an old P3 desktop to replace its former Windows 98. I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the Linux versions because none of the dozen or so distributions I’ve tried so far have been able to correctly drive both channels of my sound card, an ESS Allegro 1988, and the Linux versions of media players aren’t as good as Windows MediaPlayer at managing my large mp3 collection. As much hype as Ubuntu gets, it wasn’t as user friendly or Internet ready as Mandriva or Mint, and Fedora is so spartan, it won’t play Flash, use Java or open PDFs. So if your machine is old, try Mandriva. If it’s new and you want to be able to watch YouTube on day one, try Mint. But if you want to be able to do all of those things and use your wireless card and your sound card and your video card, stick with XP Pro, even though it’s slow and requires all kinds of firewalls, spyware removers, anti-virus programs and root kit removers. I’m really wishing Sun would step up and make a driver-rich OS to compete with XP & Vista. I wouldn’t mind paying for something that worked.
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