I tried Ubuntu and Linux Mint. But I gave up after spending all those hours for nothing.

 

New users should use the latest Nvidia driver that comes with synaptic. The Nvidia installer is for advanced users.

 

I'm happy with Ubuntu 13.04 and Unity but might try Gnome with 14.04. I also multiboot osx86 and win8.1.

 

 

 

. Today, I'm using the driver recommended by the Steam client software.

 

MdMax where do you see that?

Since some of you are saying Nvidia Drivers are pretty bad for Linux right now, I can't see the point of moving to Linux to get a worse experience than with what I have with Windows right now. Until Nvidia fixes this at least

Since some of you are saying Nvidia Drivers are pretty bad for Linux right now, I can't see the point of moving to Linux to get a worse experience than with what I have with Windows right now. Until Nvidia fixes this at least

 

 

Nah they are not bad. The only problem you may face is a desktop crash (which can be recovered easily) after manually installing the driver downloaded from Nvidia. But if you use the drivers from Synaptics package manager you should be good to go.

Who is saying, that NVidia drivers are bad on Linux (ok, one guy above had some install issues)? To the contrary ... my experience over the last 7  years was, that NVidia Linux drivers were quite good (and the NVidia dev team was good too ... they even fixed some X-Plane related bugs over the years). And i never had performance issues ... (other than my 3D card being limited - from its hardware resources )

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Nvidia drivers are good, but the Nvidia installer for the driver is only for advanced users. It's a lot more easy to install new Nvidia drivers using a repository for your repository or "PPA".

 

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_windows8_geforce

 

 

MdMax where do you see that?

 

Wow Jcomm you are a brave man. I would rather chew my own leg off than wrestle with linux again.

No disrespect to the learned linux gurus here, but I used it professionally in a server environment a few years back and was glad to see the back of it!

Good luck though, maybe we'll see you back in WindowsLand when you've had enough! ;-)

No disrespect to the learned linux gurus here, but I used it professionally in a server environment a few years back and was glad to see the back of it!

 

 

LOL why so

No disrespect to the learned linux gurus here, but I used it professionally in a server environment a few years back and was glad to see the back of it!

Good luck though, maybe we'll see you back in WindowsLand when you've had enough! ;-)

In my company we use Linux since many years in a professional environment (web server, DB servers, NAS servers etc.) ... and we are very happy to have it. So, at the end of the day, it always depends B) ...

Hey, what's all these myths about Linux ??!

 

First of all, Nvidia proprietary drivers are excellent. And have been so for years.

 

2 or three people here say they downloaded the latest drivers from Nvidia website.

That plain WRONG, you NEVER do that on Linux, especially on Ubuntu. It hurts to say that, guys, but that's a windows way of doing things.

 

Usually on Ubuntu, an icon appears in your notifications, and you can eadily activate the proprietary driver from there with one click. Otherwise, you open your update manager (with recent Ubuntu), and activate the driver on the last tab.

 

That's all !!!

 

If you really want/need to try more recent drivers, install an appropriate ppa repository, with this simple command:

sudo apt-add-repository [the name of the repository here]

Then: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install [name of Nvidia driver here]

 

That's all again !!!

 

Now, you complain that Nvidia drivers are bad quality, or that Linux is complicated. But you did it upside-down.

Please try again properly, but don't spread those rumors that Linux is hard.

 

Furthermore, X-Plane works extremely well on Ubuntu, is not buggy as someone said.

 

Some add-on don't work with Linux. This is the choice of some authors/editor, and an entirely different problem.

 

Pascal

Anything is easy. Once you know how.

 

My main source of trouble with Linux over the last 18 years is overwhelmingly centered around X11 and the video drivers.

 

Got a laptop? You're in for an even worse time...

I had Ubuntu installed and running with native acceleration, did a full system upgrade......

BAM no more proprietary video driver available that was compatible with that release of Ubuntu, and no prior warning that there would be any trouble, result: a useless machine.

Anything is easy. Once you know how.

 

My main source of trouble with Linux over the last 18 years is overwhelmingly centered around X11 and the video drivers.

 

Got a laptop? You're in for an even worse time...

I had Ubuntu installed and running with native acceleration, did a full system upgrade......

BAM no more proprietary video driver available that was compatible with that release of Ubuntu, and no prior warning that there would be any trouble, result: a useless machine.

 

Problem is people don't have enough support for Linux. Everything in multi nationals or corporates is MS.

 

Started with Slackware way back 93' IIRC , GUI was not good , had to do a lot compiling , we had those PCMCIA slots on our Texas Instruments laptops for modems  yikes 14.4 kbps LOL , those days were crazy. But now Linux is sitting very close to windows , where servers are concerned my 1st and the last choice would be Linux.

 

Would suggest checking out LMDE .

Anything is easy. Once you know how.

To be honest, this is no different with ANY other OS. With Windows its the same ... it just has a - much - larger user base (at least on desktop), and thus more wides spread know how on the web (and among the people who ask each other)

 

I am - as I told - a Linux user since many years. But I still get to see Windows quite a lot (for example in our company ... where desktops run Windows) ... and sometimes I see friends / neighbors / relatives using Windows. And the latter group has baffled me quite a few times. Sometimes they ask me, if I can help with this or that on their Windows machine ... and then I see what and how they do on it. And I am surprised that they can work with Windows at all. OK, maybe this is the plus of Windows, that its - almost - idiot proof (and thus its open to people with very low knowledge about computers). But this is also the big danger (and the big opportunity for hackers etc.), that people get the feeling that they know what they do ... whereas in reality they sometimes have absolutely NO clue (and it rises my hair, when I see what they do)! ...

 

So, I think, especially with todays Linux distributions (like Ubuntu etc.) its not that much more complicated to achieve good results or bad results than with Windows. Its just a different system which you have to learn a little bit - just like Windows (many years ago, when you first touched it). Ok, maybe its less forgiving ... but maybe that wouldn't hurt either in many many many cases :rolleyes:

Being an IT man I am willing to learn if there's a good reason to move to Linux, i.e. it gives me a better experience than Windows, However if I can't use some of my favourite planes and addons it kind of defeats the point. Just out of curiosity guys, which popular addons and plugins are not compatible with Linux? I am willing to give it a go if it's worth it.

After a virus destroyed all my data back on Windows 98 I looked around and found Suse. I found it complicated at that time and firstly only used it for all internet stuff. Since then I always booted Linux aside Win and only recently also osx86 on my new PC.

Only as time went by, I started to admire the openess, stability, versability etc. Nowadays I do 90% on Linux and nearly boot other os anymore.  Well I have Realflight...to train for my real RC planes.

I would try the live demo from cd or virtualbox and test/play around. (try other desktops etc.) If you don't like it don't install it...that simple.

There are a handful of not compatible addons but honestly I don't give a s*. I would rather move to Flightgear than back to Windows.

 

 

I would rather move to Flightgear than back to Windows.

 

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