Playing with Linux

My computing world has been flipped on its head. At school, I finally had Novell installed on my pc, but ended up having to reinstall the OS to do it; in doing so, they reimaged the HD, and left 35GB unpartitioned. I used this space for a linux install. I put Fedora Core 5 on it. Then got intrigued by it, and repartitioned a HD at home on my AMD 64 machine, and put the same on it. But I had some problems with Fedora, and decided to try out openSUSE, which was recommended by one of the guys on Satelliteuys.

So, I put that on; a very different interface compared with Fedora; but some of it is frustrating. It does not provide 3D acceleration for the video card (which is serious B.S., since its a 256MB NVidia GeoForce 5200 card); and seems to be unable to install codecs for some mpegs.

But since installing Linux seems to be pretty easy, I decided to install Ubuntu, and see how it compares.