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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Support other Linux distributions
« on: July 01, 2007, 06:38:05 am »
I second this.
Actually, I have no problems with Ubuntu: I'm not one who has a lot of time to become an expert Linux admin for 10 different distros, but I've found Ubuntu to be very friendly out of the box, with very little investment of my time to make things work, so I'm going with it.
Kubuntu, however, has caused me problems that have forced me to use Gnome instead: on my laptop with an ATI chipset (DVI * VGA out) hooked up to an LCD TV with 1366x768 native resolution, I could not get KDE to behave properly. Even after manually tweaking the xorg.conf file to match my LCD's resolution, KDE would revert to a different resolution on bootup. KDE also appears to use a bit more memory than an equivalent Gnome desktop.
Actually, since a media center application is supposed to be the one and only graphical interface running on a PC, I don't see what difference the desktop environment should make.
Actually, I have no problems with Ubuntu: I'm not one who has a lot of time to become an expert Linux admin for 10 different distros, but I've found Ubuntu to be very friendly out of the box, with very little investment of my time to make things work, so I'm going with it.
Kubuntu, however, has caused me problems that have forced me to use Gnome instead: on my laptop with an ATI chipset (DVI * VGA out) hooked up to an LCD TV with 1366x768 native resolution, I could not get KDE to behave properly. Even after manually tweaking the xorg.conf file to match my LCD's resolution, KDE would revert to a different resolution on bootup. KDE also appears to use a bit more memory than an equivalent Gnome desktop.
Actually, since a media center application is supposed to be the one and only graphical interface running on a PC, I don't see what difference the desktop environment should make.