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I used it years ago when I had to buy a server for our company...
Using RHEL5 was perfect for us: it saved us a lot of money in Microsoft licenses (internal e-mail, backup, user quantity...).
It worked perfectly until id did not... when it stopped working we had a couple of pages of bash commands that were super useful to reinstantiate the samba, change permissions...
It was a server so no one got close to it except to change the backup tapes...
for anything that someone has to put a finger on it... Windows... 
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Why don't you just install windows 7? If home cinema is all the use you do to that machine, you should have no problems if you don't get more updates.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Could I please make a few representations for the defence? It's not surprising that a PC built to run Windows does not run Linux as efficiently. Also, it takes two to network, if Linux doesn't network well with Windows it's equally true that Windows does not network well with Linux. As for the final statement, 'Linux...you're so close, yet still so far from actually being usable.' How can you explain that, according to Wikipedia, 'Linux has the largest installed base of all general-purpose operating systems. Linux is also the leading operating system on servers and other big iron systems such as mainframe computers'?
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George Swan wrote: a PC built to run Windows
In what way? It is juts an instruction set, how it is used is up to the software vendor.
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The problem is not with the CPU, it's the lack of driver support for the bungled hardware. See this piece regarding Nvidia.
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Right, that is something different then.
Of course in the linux world anyone ca write a driver for an Nvidia card, if they have access to the register documentation.
I have put 17.10 on a laptop with Nvidia, it has been a bit of a faff, but it works.
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That middle finger salute is laughable. Nvidia is a money making corporation, it is not a charity foundation. They have no obligation to make drivers for open source OS, which gives them zero income. They have workers who have families to be fed.
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I think the main complaint is that Nvidia do not disclose sufficient information to allow others to build efficient drivers for its hardware.
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Those are company secret 
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George Swan wrote: How can you explain that, according to Wikipedia,
Easily.
George Swan wrote:
'Linux has the largest installed base of all general-purpose operating systems.
These days they include Android phones in the count when you hear that statement
George Swan wrote: Linux is also the leading operating system on servers and other big iron systems such as mainframe computers'?
Notice how they leave out desktops...which is the sort of environment I'm trying to use it in and where it's failing.
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Yep, it is close, but just fails at the final hurdle.
I am having issues with 17.10 and nvidia drivers, (massively high) resolutions, blank screens.
Perhaps go back to an older Ubuntu with the unity shell?
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I would try Linux Mint before giving up.
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No plans to give up!
Not that I intend to use it, I just need to get a kernel with some extra tracing/step through running so I can see why my USB device isnt working properly on linux.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Perhaps go back to an older Ubuntu with the unity shell?
I've been thinking about that. Perhaps something that was current at the time the latest Linux drivers for my video chipset came out. Maybe I'll do that if the system (now back on Windows 10) starts running into errors installing updates again...
It's important though in this case that I use something lightweight. Unity is all but that.
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I believe at login you can chose unity 2D instead of 3D. 2D is lighter I believe.
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I'll try to find out if/when I reinstall Linux on that machine. Right now that's not in my plans.
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Should you buy all your festival supplies in December, because this is the winter of our discount tent?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Good idea. It made Gloria's summer. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I'm going to Dec you for that.
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Be careful he doesn't put a Hex on you, or throw you in the Bin.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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We are all in danger then, a programmer in unsafe mode can point to any address.
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If athletes get athlete's foot, do astronauts get Mistletoe?
Of course, yule excuse me for that Clause it's the right thing to do.
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I overheard at a travel agent to see Wales in December you need to go to Antartica
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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No, no - it never rains in Antarctica.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Is that the one located beside apartment 2B or not 2B?
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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