Linked by David Donley on Wed 9th Jun 2004 18:53 UTC
I have been using Linux since 1993. I installed the first version of Slackware on a 16MB 386sx-25. Since then I have been using it almost exclusively on one or more of my PCs. So I consider myself as a bit of an expert. I have been using computers since 1982 mostly PCs, but also VAX mainframes and SPARC systems. Operating systems (and GUIs) I have been using include CP/M, DOS, Windows from Version 2 to XP, Geos, Beos, SCO Unix, Solaris, OS/2 and quite a few Linux Distros.
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I know you're trolling and all, but...
Been trying to use linux for years, this one as well as the others chuggs along really slow on my p4 2.4ghz machine!
Something must be wrong with your config. It's quite snappy on my Athlon 900MHz.
If someone says its the invidia drivers then I will have to laugh in their faces as nvidia is the most popular graphics card on the planet and linux has woeful support for it and many other things such as usb.
Uh, Linux has GREAT support for NVIDIA. Just download the easy-to-use official NVIDIA installer! Although that would be for 3D. For 2D graphics (i.e. the Desktop experience), the open-source nv driver supplied with XFree86 (or x.org, which will replace XFree86 in the next Mandrake release) works quite well.
Also, Linux has excellent usb support. I've yet to try a single USB peripheral that hasn't worked out-of-the-box with Mandrake 10. As I said, there must be something wrong with your setup. Or - more probably - you are deliberately spreading FUD.