{"id":8,"date":"2006-01-12T17:01:58","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T16:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/?p=8"},"modified":"2006-01-17T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T12:04:54","slug":"linux-chooser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Linux chooser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just read <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eikke.com\/index.php\/ikke\/2006\/01\/12\/linux_distribution_chooser\">Nicolas<\/a> his post and immediately tried it, and worked for me 2. Ubuntu and Debian came out, exactly my 2 prefered distro&#8217;s (and what I&#8217;m running on most of my computers). So check it out and try the distro they tell you, you might be surprissed at how far we&#8217;ve already come.<\/p>\n<p>imho for regular destkop users, linux is almost if not further than windows. By this I mean an out of the box installation. Heck we support more drivers out of the box than windows, and I do speak out of experience here, I installed a windows on a ibm work laptop and had to fetch the network drivers from the internet, before I was able to get internet to download the rest of my drivers (videocard,soundcard,&#8230;) when I popped in my ubuntu disc, everything was up and running, even glxgears ran smoothly!!<\/p>\n<p>Comparing prepared versions doesn&#8217;t count if you ask me, because those are custom made and everybody can do that 2 with a linux to fit some specific needs, to bad nobody does it for linux, who knows what&#8217;ll happen when windows come with their vista. I hope to see more ubuntu laptops pop up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read Nicolas his post and immediately tried it, and worked for me 2. Ubuntu and Debian came out, exactly my 2 prefered distro&#8217;s (and what I&#8217;m running on most of my computers). So check it out and try the distro they tell you, you might be surprissed at how far we&#8217;ve already come. imho &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/?p=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linux chooser&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informatics","category-linux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3U9nk-8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}