need linux advice?

[realgreenfire]

so i recently built a new desktop (gigabyte z77-d3h mainboard, I3 2120 processor, 4gb ram so far, and a 1 gig nvidia vid card) and have been running mint 13 and every once in a while it stalls out while web surfing, or wont shut down. is this common? is there another form of linux that works better for a setup like this?

comments? suggestions?

[nothinghere2c]

for general desktop use, I see more people using ubuntu than other linux distributions. Personally I hate linux for desktop use but use it for any and every server I build.

[ocabj]

Check your logs. See what's thrown to syslog during the times it the OS takes a dump.

[Turbinator]

so i recently built a new desktop (gigabyte z77-d3h mainboard, I3 2120 processor, 4gb ram so far, and a 1 gig nvidia vid card) and have been running mint 13 and every once in a while it stalls out while web surfing, or wont shut down. is this common? is there another form of linux that works better for a setup like this?

comments? suggestions?

I've been having some issues lately with Linux Mint 13 (now running XFCE desktop) running a bit slowly. No problems with the OS not being able to shut down, but just slow, crawling behavior.

Turby

[choombak]

Your nvid card could be an issue - most hardware vendors write crappy and buggy device drivers for Linux which can create problems. Unfortunately you don't have an option if you have to use that piece of hardware. You can try disabling nvid card and use standard graphics driver that comes with Linux and see if it still hangs. You can also try Ubuntu live cd to see if things work well, and probably make a switch to Ubuntu.

[realgreenfire]

i tried a fairly old ubuntu live cd (several versions ago) and it seems to work well so i installed that version for the time being. i an try and take the nvid card out and run from the mainboards video hardware for now, or would that be about the same for the nvid in terms of software compatibility with linux OS's?

[orangeusa]

May be OT, but have you ever heard of SUSE? I inherited a project that was developed using SUSE in a Windows environment. Seems to work well, but man, no support...

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[bigbearbear]

Microsoft Windows FTW!

Or try open SuSE. They tend to give less problems. In my previous job many colleagues also like to use Ubuntu but I like SuSE better.

[the86d]

Slackware has run on everything I have ever installed it on...

You might have to learn Linux (the cli at it's finest) to get the most of Slackware, not just learn the GUI of a specific distro (that might not pertain to other distros, or a specific version as they seem to change too). This has worked pretty well, but someday I hope to jump in with both feet for a Desktop OS replacement...

[ocabj]

This has worked pretty well, but someday I hope to jump in with both feet for a Desktop OS replacement...

Well, there's this thing called Mac OS X which has a great UI that is far better than X-Windows/KDE/Gnome/<insert_window_manager_here> and still has the *nix underneath for your Open Source needs.

I'm still wondering what the OP means by 'stalling' out. What do the syslogs show? Anything in dmesg giving insight into device issues? What about monitoring metrics on CPU, RAM, and Disk I/O?

[the86d]

Well, there's this thing called Mac OS X which has a great UI that is far better than X-Windows/KDE/Gnome/<insert_window_manager_here> and still has the *nix underneath for your Open Source needs.

I'm still wondering what the OP means by 'stalling' out. What do the syslogs show? Anything in dmesg giving insight into device issues? What about monitoring metrics on CPU, RAM, and Disk I/O?

Yeah I have heard of this OSuX, but I can't see throwing money away machine on a machine that only runs one OS... "natively".

(BSD based OSuX=BadSoftwareDesign as BSD's naming conventions are TERRIBLE... almost as bad as Android's for Block Devices.)

[ocabj]

Yeah I have heard of this OSuX, but I can't see throwing money away machine on a machine that only runs one OS... "natively".

(BSD based OSuX=BadSoftwareDesign as BSD's naming conventions are TERRIBLE... almost as bad as Android's for Block Devices.)

I've been a huge fan on FreeBSD for a long time. It's very flexible and performs particularly well for high I/O deployments. We do border traffic monitoring with multiple 10GB links using commodity hardware and FreeBSD quite nicely.

What drew me into FreeBSD in the days of v4 was how simple it was to get granular with kernel and device drivers modifications.

[kapache]

You should try PCBSD its really really good.

[Satex]

Slackware has run on everything I have ever installed it on...

Slackware... LOL!
CLI... LOL!

Ladies and gentlemen, we may have discovered that Richard Stallman himself is a member on this forum!

What's next, document editing using EMAC and VI? Do you surf the net using LYNX? Are you a big fan of Gopher and UUCP?

[JoshuaS]

I have had the best luck with Ubuntu. With my old laptop I had some hiccups, namely it wouldn't wake up from suspend. Was able to fix that fairly easily. Newer versions works best. I ocassionaly get an error message, but it seems to be a false flag each time, computer runs and I ignore it.

I had bad luck with Suse. Installed it on my desktop. But I was new to linux then, and that was several versions ago. I do recommend using Live CDs or USB and trying it out to see what you like. Everyone seems to have different experience/luck with various distros