No more Vista?!?!?! (Almost!)

MrTRiotMrTRiot Northern Ontario Icrontian
edited July 2008 in Science & Tech
After sitting here since Vista came out with it on my pretty pimped out Compaq sr2170nx

And having it scream like a banshee on start up...

And crashing during any 2 hour or more file operation...

AND not to mention switching capatability for pretty much every game out there back to XP....



I've converted...

(Welll.....as much as possible on a single HDD)






To....."Gutsy"



aka...Ubuntu 8.02




The funny thing is, right after I installed Ubuntu. I went to go play some windows games on vista...and won't you know it. Fatal Error, Unable to repair...

Emergency Power down on the blue screen of death; Restart and Vista's back...:wtf:

......Does anyone else think Microsoft is about to smit my poor little Compaq persario for disobeying the allmighty Vista? :eek:

Comments

  • MrTRiotMrTRiot Northern Ontario Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    I have an actual question now on Ubuntu...

    Has anyone ever tried to do large file conversions (10+ hours on a 3 ghz cpu) with any luck on Ubuntu/Linux?

    Reason I'm wondering is Vista will just sort of "die" a few hours in...

    p.s. Also! Is there anyone out there who knows there "sudo" commands REALLY well? I could use a hand.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    Define "large file conversions," if you don't mind?

    It should run just fine as long as you make sure you disable power management features, especially on a laptop; those have yet to be perfected.

    What commands do you need help with?
  • QeldromaQeldroma Arid ZoneAh Member
    edited July 2008
    ???

    I'm afraid I don't understand.

    You're having trouble with Vista, you have to work to get your games to run in XP compatibility mode?

    And you're going to fix it by installing Ubuntu?

    :scratch:

    Are you running Vista 64 or 32?- you need to specify because it's significant.
  • MrTRiotMrTRiot Northern Ontario Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    Qeldroma wrote:
    ???

    I'm afraid I don't understand.

    You're having trouble with Vista, you have to work to get your games to run in XP compatibility mode?

    And you're going to fix it by installing Ubuntu?

    :scratch:

    Are you running Vista 64 or 32?- you need to specify because it's significant.

    Games? I'm not playing games on Ubuntu. I'm TRYING to convert multiple files that are ~8 gigs together to a single standard format.

    No games involved...
  • MrTRiotMrTRiot Northern Ontario Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    Snarkasm wrote:
    Define "large file conversions," if you don't mind?

    It should run just fine as long as you make sure you disable power management features, especially on a laptop; those have yet to be perfected.

    What commands do you need help with?

    First thing I did was disable the power features when I get my computer a few years ago.

    ...I need help with "sudo" installs and getting the proper drivers working.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    I was asking because "sudo" isn't an install command, it's just giving another command elevated privileges. What comes after the sudo, or what are you trying to install?
  • MrTRiotMrTRiot Northern Ontario Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    Well, other then the file conversions....

    I need it to install the linux driver for my video card. Loading it normally says I need to be on the "master user" so I'm having to do it through the command prompt, using Sudo THEN attempting to run it...
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    Something like "sudo nvidia-installer-alpha853489234gajillion.sh" usually work, though I think the restricted drivers manager should have taken care of that... You should probably go get Hardy (8.04) and install that instead, lots of new fixes.

    Two things: 8.02 doesn't exist, and Gutsy was 7.10, so I'm not exactly sure what you actually ARE running, if you could clarify; and power management features are embedded in the OS, not just the BIOS, so after installing Ubuntu, you'll still need to disable ITS power management functions as well.
  • MrTRiotMrTRiot Northern Ontario Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    Snarkasm wrote:
    Something like "sudo nvidia-installer-alpha853489234gajillion.sh" usually work, though I think the restricted drivers manager should have taken care of that... You should probably go get Hardy (8.04) and install that instead, lots of new fixes.

    Two things: 8.02 doesn't exist, and Gutsy was 7.10, so I'm not exactly sure what you actually ARE running, if you could clarify; and power management features are embedded in the OS, not just the BIOS, so after installing Ubuntu, you'll still need to disable ITS power management functions as well.

    My mistake. It is Hardy.

    ...I haven't tried the conversions on Ubuntu yet, just on Vista. So that's NOT my issue. I'm more just wondering if anyone else has done massive file conversions like this on Ubuntu and to what extent it actually works. Last thing I want is to start it and have the exact same issue I was having with Vista
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    It's an incredibly stable OS, so it really just depends on you correctly disabling the power management so it doesn't try to hibernate in the middle of it. I don't anticipate you'll have any problems if you try it.
  • MrTRiotMrTRiot Northern Ontario Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    After messing around with Vista for a bit and searching the net...

    I came across a 20 million times better conversion software that actually WORKS on Vista with no issues! :D

    And instead of the typical 6+ hours...It's cut down to 1 and a half.


    *praises DVDfab* ;)
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited July 2008
    Do you still need help understanding the SUDO/Root things in Ubuntu? If so, create a new thread with Ubuntu/SUDO in the title so those scanning threads can see it's clearly a request for help with Linux/Ubuntu ;)
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