As you can see i like to ramble a lot, and sadly i'm not a very good english writer ( i'm from brazil), so here is a summary:
1. Ultimate Edition first impressions.
2. My linux journey yet.
3. Current Configuration
4. My Ultimate Edition critics
5. Tips i would like to know = = = JUMP HERE IF YOU'RE ON A HURRY
AND SORRY (i'm afraid you will all hate me)
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1. My first impressions on Ultimate Edition( i'm beginning with 2.5) are very good, the overall look and feel is very good, the highly customization potential is something to consider, the themes then really got me horny (just kidding), the best theme collection ever. Although its a little confusing all those apps in the menus and i can't help to wonder if all of this doesn't make my system a bit slower...
2. I first started with Ubuntu 9.04 and shortly after that updated to 9.10. As you see i am yet to have 1 year with Linux experience. Ubuntu is really nice and i had very few problems, and still using WinXP, but for games only. I was unhappy with that, seeing that some of the games should play better on linux than windows, all because of this PulseAudio that still causes problems, any wine application and even some linux based would crash.
So i took a leap of faith and gone to Dreamlinux, only to discover that it is a linux nightmare, a lot of the issues would be solved if i had better researched it). Then gone to the lord of us all Debian, which really works like a charm including all of the previous problems i had with Ubuntu.
But of course if already had a Debian experience you will know that lenny besides being really stable has really old-to-date software so i went through some rough times but ended up with a Debian Squeeze version which is suiting me well.
So i took another leap of faith and gone deleting my old WinXP and putting there this Ultimate Edition which i heard so much about. So then...
3. My current configuration:
hda1:Debian Squeeze 39 GB
hda2:Swap
hda3:Ultimate Edition 39 GB
sdb1: And data 160 GB
4. Its seems to me that Ultimate Edition is just a Ubuntu OS customized to rock, not saying its bad but some bad features of Ubuntu are still hanging around.
Same problems i had with PulseAudio i still get on Ultimate Edition, i hope those will be fixed on Ubuntu 10.
Sounds some times is still glitch, sound in wine doesn't work, and another issues that are annoying but not compromise the functionality of the System.
ps.. i wish Ubuntu still had the ALSA system from the Debian distro, it would be a dream....
5. I really don't expect you all to make the perfect system, but i would like some advice from the experienced users around:
- How to fix this wine problem, or general PulseAudio issues, i read a post around here but its mainly focused on older versions, 9.10 version of PulseAudio is very nice but still got compatibility issues.
- Well this a lot do with the previous one, how the hell do i get games to works on this thing?
- I'm very annoyed with the media system, the best Vlc and Smplayer don't get screen-saver support (i remember when the screen saver was changed and it was a very sad day), we all know that the standard "media player" has very few customizable options, and those previous are great for they have better volume options (we all know how annoying it is to put volume all high so we hear the movie and then comes a system beep so loud that could wake the dead).
So how you people do with media, mp3 player here is alright, i'm mostly concerned with movies and etc?