I thought I’d take a few minutes to toss Ubuntu on my old desktop tonight, since I was presently Linux-less at home (minus the PowerBook, but OS X doesn’t really count).
Well, here’s a timeline of my experience:
[6:00pm] Install Ubuntu.
[6:30pm] Fully update Ubuntu.
[8:00pm] Realize that you can’t do shit with Ubuntu on an AMD64 and format the drive to put 2003 server back on it.
That about sums it up. I mean, jesus, I couldn’t even get through step one so that I could use it as an actual useful desktop machine.
Some progress Linux has made… Just make sure you’re an Intel fanboy…
Freaky - I’ve just downloaded Ubuntu. Was going to try the Live CD first.
I only have a PIII 650, so I’m guessing I’m good to go…
I’ve got another part to this series that I wrote over the weekend, just didn’t get typed up here. Suffice it to say it doesn’t change much…
Usually installing with the “x86″ or “PC” install disk is all you need. And to be fair - a lot of games, etc. won’t run properly on Windows 64-bit either … you need to use regular XP.
My suggestion: try again, using the x86 install disk.