Originally Posted by Mac the Knife
PS: Keef, to satisfy my curiosity, could you post the changes you had to make to bootmisc.sh and local.rules (they're in your notebook)?
If you think it'll help:
In bootmisc.sh:
kdesu /usr/bin/sambastart start
In local.rules:
KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", NAME="input/%k"
After the next boot, local.rules vanished, so I don't know what happened to that bit of code. Since it fixed the problem, I didn't worry, either.
Originally Posted by Saw The Light
"Can I hope to install Linux straight out of the box and have an OS that works as well and as easily as MS?" From what I read I think not.
About right. However, if you have the patience to spend a few days getting it all up and running, you may be pleasantly surprised. My experience is obviously (from comments above) significantly worse than should be expected. I suppose I chose the wrong machine to install it on, or there's a peripheral that's causing problems.
Either way, once it's sorted, performance is far better than MS stuff on the same machine. My recommendation would be to experiment "in your spare time" with an old machine, and see if you can get it to function.