Moveing totaly over to Linux

If you've been using linux already, and you are pretty familiar with how it works, the only issue I can see is perhaps some hardware might be an effort to get going, usually the graphics card if you want to use the binary drivers from ATI or NVidia (the better of the two, btw), but the installers are much better and the online guides are so good now that installing those things are a breeze if you've had even a little experience.

I'd say you're golden. Just for S's and G's, post the specs so I can tell you if I (and others) see any pontential issues.

NVidia = win, just find a guide for your distro for installing the binary drivers if you run into issues. Otherwise, everything looks great.

Really, any of the newer "user friendly" distros (the various ubuntus, fedora core, suse, and some others) are about all on par with ease of use, but the thing ubuntu has that they don't is arguably one of the strongest user communities (wikis and forums) to help you do some crazy stuff or just figure out a little annoyance.

I have been all Linux since 2000(redhat/fedora), and have never regreted it.... Use fedoraforum.org as your security blanket... You can get any answer you ever need from there.... Most any question you will ever have about FC5 was probably already asked and can be found there with the 'Search' button....

Actually, any of the good Linux online communities are a great place to look for guidance, even if it's not strictly your distro. Ubuntu and Gentoo have really great forums and wiki's for the mundane to the bleeding edge.

Also, perhaps let him try both out and see which he prefers (i.e. burn both Ubuntu and Kubuntu since they're both LiveCDs and try both out with minimal investment)? Some like the less-cluttered feel of Gnome.

Which drivers do you use for the Nforce 4/SLI chipset?

Right, what he said

My k8we has the nForce 2200/2050 chipset combo and those work with the in-kernel drivers

Also, get the latest graphics drivers from nvidia (like linux_0 said too), it supports SLI and coolbits plus performs great. Easy to install too.

Indeed :-D

Only thing is until very recently debian did not have an x86_64 version.

They do have one now so it should be ok if you use the latest version.

:-D

No BSOD (but you can run the BSOD screen saver if you really miss that!).

No more AV software (to pay for, then pay for updates).

No more spyware attacks (or at least less of them).

No more crappy shareware with half the features disabled and an expiration date (but you get to run half finished alpha software ).

No more gaping security holes all the hackers know about for weeks before there is a patch available (but you are welcome to make you own).

No more licensing fees for software doomed to virtually expire into obsolecence within a year (but you are welcome to send a donation to your favorite project - will code for food!).

No more stupid search puppy.

Finally, best of all, you'll have to beat the hot chix off you with a stick, cuz chix love geeks. Now, I'm going to go outside and spend my Saturday off sitting on the curb, waiting for if and when those chix show up. Haven't seen any yet, but I know they are coming!

May the source be with you...






Seriously now, there is a lot of truth in the above statements :-D

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