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ElNumbreJan 3rd 2008 6:41PM
I tried linux about 10 years ago, then dabbled on and off every two years since then, but often gave up in frustration. Then, along came the Ubuntu/Debian distro's and I've not looked back since. These days, the distro's seem to work a lot more seamlessly out of the box than perhaps they did all those years ago.
I would recommend that any new user makes sure their internet connection will still work once they upgrade, as it certainly helps with those ohh poop moments when you're not sure what to do next, and helps to get any additional components that perhaps you might need.
I've also found the user communities around Ubuntu/Deb tend to be better and more helpful than the RedHat/Fedora user base, but thats just my experience.
Good luck, and have faith!
(Unverified)Jan 4th 2008 5:56AM
This is good advice... I've found it's less of an issue with high speed wired connections than dial up, and less of an issue with wired connections with wireless, but there are some LAN cards that take a bit of configuring. (WLAN almost always takes some fiddling, but in general internal adapters are easier to configure than USB ones).
Back in the day (the dark ages of 2001 when I started using Linux) I still had dial up. Since I had a Winmodem (didn't everybody?) I had to buy an external hardware modem to connect to the 'net. It made Windows (I was dual booting at the time) crashy as heck, but worked like a charm in Linux.