Me?

[BruceCM]

Still new to Linux & only tried (K)Ubuntu & Mint Lisa & Adriane. So far, the favorite (when my laptop isn't convinced it's hard drive is missing, so I can actually install it...) is Adriane. But for live mode use, given the odd power blips, etc, Lisa's easier to use, for now....

Your favorite, then?

[Xale]

I have Ubuntu running the Gnome 3 shell that has been treating me pretty well. Battery life seems to take a turn for the worse though.

[Eponine]

Do you have any suggestions for a Linux newbie? I've been meaning to try it for years and never got around to getting anything to work fully. I messed around with a couple of them, but could never get the internet to work. I have two laptops now that I can experiment with and not worry about screwing up, since I no longer use them (dead screens )

[BruceCM]

Only tried the 4 mentioned & any of those seemed pretty simple to set up, then there's the forums to find/ ask for solutions to problems, etc. Mint's particularly good if you play lots of videos, etc. Really not at all sure what advice you'd need, sorry- there's a lot of distros you could try? Forums full of advice/ tips, etc!

[marioLuvsShrooms]

I'm a Debian user but I want to go with FreeBSD

[BruceCM]

What's stopping you?

[marioLuvsShrooms]

Just a little matter of wanting to keep my stuff from my Hard-disks. I've tried adding another hard-disk to my computer the other night, but the SCSI connector wasn't right for it and I needed to use another type from another socket. I'm afraid I might had done damage to the pins of the other hard-disk when I forced the SCSI on it.

When I tried the other SCSI ribbon, the computer didn't recognize it at all. Well for one thing, my main hard-disk is on one of those fire-wires and is the master, the SCSI ribbon it couldn't fit on is with the fire-wire thus the computer only recognizes hard-disks on the SCSI ribbon with the fire-wire.

The reason I want to go with freeBSD is cause of the old saying "Security through Obscurity" ....

[BruceCM]

Most of that's lost on me. This is really where everybody asks me questions, though?

[marioLuvsShrooms]

........ For my question ? What's your laptop's specifications, brand name, and such ? I've once had a Dell latitude with docking station but it's broken to where it won't start up at all. I'd love to get it working again so I could set it up to test out my desktop's security and such

[BruceCM]

Asus x54 64 bit.