[plug] Mepis blues

[Kev]

Hi Chris

I tried Mepis (amongst several others) for a while too and found lots of 
niggling problems.  I "struggled" with Linux for about a year, 
despairing of ever coming to terms with this new beast.  Someone on this 
list kept telling me to try Xandros, so eventually I did.  I still use 
it.  I have found Xandros to be only distro that a relatively non-techo 
(NON-programmer) newbie-ish type bloke can really get get going 
reliably.  You pays ya money and it works - right out of the box.  
Xandros is designed with newbie ex-Wintendo users in mind, and is hence 
the best yet lead in to Linux I've tried - and that includes Linspire.  
When/if I change distros however, it won't be back to Mepis, but to 
Kubuntu. 

Really, give Xandros a go

Cheers
Kev

chriswhittaker wrote:

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>  
> Hello ,
>  
> I have been struggling with Linux for nearly 2 years . That,s not fair 
> I have been striving to maximise the offerings that Linux provides 
> however when I finally finds a distro that I can understand ie Mepis 
> it lets me down . Not once or twice but often.
>  
> For some reason I get it running brilliantly , the system is updated , 
> I add new apps like gnu-gnutella, synaptic,alsa player, totem, sound 
> card configured Use Xine all the trimmings and it runs fine . No 
> issues then for no reason Grub poops itself.
>  
> I have reloaded the distro I have at least 5 times over the past 4 
> months and for some reason it will run brilliantly time and again then 
> it starts to throw up error messages during the grub boot stage "error 
> 17".
>  
> Why , all I want is the freedom to use a distro and my computer to the 
> best advantage , I don,t write code , I subscribe to all the right 
> issues like "no software patents", I don't hack my machine . I even 
> load it on its own hard drive not a shared one with windoze.
>  
> And all I get is error 17 , theres 17 errors on grub ??? and i get 
> them all???.Please help me before I do something I will regret , I am 
> mere flesh and blood , I have my whole life before me and I do not 
> want to do the ultimate act. I search myself...why me ..'m a good 
> person ..i have tried to learn the file names , I have used RPM , I 
> try to understand Debian, i learnt how to configure  - make  - make 
> install. I even subscribe to Linux  Format magazine.
>  
> But I still get Grub error 17
>  
>  
> Please dont make me go back to XP I couldnt stand it , I have to use 
> it at work  I don't want to use it  at home 
>  ,,PPPPPPPLLLLLLLLEEEEAAAASEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
> HEEEEEEEELP MEEEE
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