Hehehe...
You remind ME and my problems!!!
First of all, let me tell you something : I've tryed to install AT LEAST 10 different distros before I got it right!!!
If you wanna something that really works IMMEDIATELY, let me give you my BEST OF for Newbees LINUX users :
1. (AND ONLY ONE )The winner is KNOPPIX LIVE CD(3.4, 3.6 & 3.7)!!! Any of these versions worked for me as soon as I've booted my Asus L8400K LAPTOP, PIII 850, 256 Mb RAM, with WIFi PCMCIA card!!! All others distros cannot configure this card directly (but I was on the net with 10/100 Realtek). If you wanna install it, it is so EASY, in 25 minutes from start 'till the fulle installation!!! Belive me, great stuff. If you need some help (about installation), give me a sign... Same with all distros that are based on Knoppix Debian (I.E. Kanotix...)
2. Gentoo 2004-2 : Quite hard to install (for newbees), but as you say, so well explained...
3. Slackware 10.0 ( nothing to say, except complicated for new guys, cannot configure my PCMCIA card)
4. Mandrake 10.0 ( but cannot configure my PCMCIA card and not working great for me on my hardware)
5. Fedora Core 2, (works nice, but need a lot of adjustment),
My list of worst distros :
1. SUSE (any kind of version) : Let me tell you something... Everybody tells me that it's easiest way, and I belive...BUT not in my case!!! It's slows my computer so badly that I cannot explain!!! I am really sad, but for me, this is the FIRST one of the worst distros...
2. LINSPIRE (ex LINDOWS): Very good, but no update, you must pay!!! Reminds a lot on M$, that's why is in this second part...
3...Free BSD : I have nothing against it, but I didn't know how to install it 'till the end (a lot of friend told me that Free BSD is the BEST one)... I belive, but I am newbee and this is only my experience... No worries...
All the best and "Long LiFe Linux"...
LLL - aka ZX Spectrum
