Obligatory "Oh, Lord, not another Newbie!" post

[majesticturkey]

David Smith;1427322 Wrote: 
> 

> What am I definitely gonna like?  What am I definitely gonna trip over?
> *The endless ability to tinker. It's so customizable you can just spend
> hours playing around making your desktop just the way you want, or
> tweaking your boot to be faster.*

> Did that whole WINE business ever turn out to be anything?  Didn't that
> 

> DOS emulator thingie they used to have actually turn out to work?  Do I
> 

> get to keep playing with my decade-old DOS games, like F117A, Strike 

> Eagle, JNUG, Doom? *Yeah, there's a DOS emulator (DOSBox), and WINE
> does work out pretty well for a lot of things. As for DOS games though,
> I think you should be okay*

> 

> Is there a big three-inch-thick book that everybody gets but nobody
> thinks 

> to mention?  I used to like them books. *There's a few Ubuntu books out
> there, but nobody needs them. There's the wiki. The wiki has
> everything.*

> 

> What's the first thing you wish you'd known to do when you installed 

> Ubuntu that you didn't do cause you didn't know you should?*Had
> ndiswrapper for my wifi card drivers.*

> 

> Would I be crazy to install Ubuntu on my laptop?  Would it be likely to
> 

> recognize and handle my 32-bit NetGear wireless PCCard with no
> problems, 

> or do I end up with a laptop I can't use and can't fix cause I can't
> get 

> to the web? *I don't know if that wireless card works with Linux
> straight away, but there's programs to use windows drivers with linux,
> like I mentioned.*

> 

> I -really- don't want to have my life focused on getting my OS working
> 

> properly, rather than doing my email & such.  (Been there, done that, 

> repeatedly.)  I want this to Just Work.  *it does, but expect (just
> like with Windows) to have something be quirky...but people here will
> help you*

> 

> My desktop, well, that's for Mercury, and I don't necessarily have to
> have 

> a mailserver.  But I do need my laptop, I do need my mail, I do need my
> 

> webrowser to do my web-based Medical Transcription course.  And I'd
> like 

> my games.

> 

> Maybe I should just do the desktop, and do the laptop only when I'm
> more 

> confident? *Use the LiveCD to see if your wireless card works.*


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majesticturkey