Warp wrote:
>   However, if you have even slightly more exotic hardware (and sometimes
> even some quite common hardware) you might have to struggle for hours
> before you will get the system fully working.

Even with pretty simple hardware, I usually wind up installing a new Windows 
three or four times on the first day before I get everything working the way 
I want.  Of course, I notice when something's broken, so maybe that's part 
of the explanation.  Like on this machine, some audio-based process sucked 
up a constant 10% CPU time even when the machine was idle, until I avoided 
installing the manufacturer's custom driver for something unrelated (screen? 
Keyboard? Network? Some such nonsense that came with the machine) and used 
the one off Windows Update.  I'm sure many people wouldn't have even noticed 
that the distro that came with the machine was broken.

I check the Device Manager for "didn't install" devices and see if I can 
resolve it, too, which often takes a few tries to get right.

I've used only a few different Linux's, but I have to say that Warp's advice 
to use OpenSuSE was spot on the money if you don't know what you're doing 
already.

>   And be careful if you try to install Linux on a *secondary* partition,

Oh, that's the other thing that takes a while to figure out on each new 
Windows install. :)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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