So I'm using linux on my thinkpad T43, and its working fine and all that jazz except for the graphics. I'm using Fedora 14.

Is there a distro that works better/makes things appear smoother than Fedora? What about better graphics? Things are looking very "pixel-y".

here's how it looks.

12/27/2011 7:28:27 PM

If you're using a Fire- class card from AMD you're basically stuck - they're not the best supported. But you can check to make sure that smoothing and anti-alaising is enabled. Ubuntu has the AMD driver baked in, you may need to update it manually in Fedora.

12/27/2011 8:05:56 PM

i'm cool with switching to ubuntu if that will work better.

12/27/2011 8:11:04 PM

run the live CD and see if it fixes your problem...

12/27/2011 8:36:19 PM

^^even better is the derivative Linux Mint IMO

12/27/2011 9:11:40 PM

Which graphics chipset are you using? I would suggest trying the F16 live CD, but if you've got a crappy graphics card then trying to run GNOME3 would be futile. Just curious, but any particular reason you're running F14 and not a newer, supported version?

12/27/2011 9:44:32 PM

^F14 was the version I had on dvd at the time. I 'yum -y update' weekly.

12/27/2011 9:55:53 PM

using Linux Mint now, latest version. Things seem to be a bit smoother, I'll keep trying it out. Thanks for the info. Tdub tech talk delivers.

12/29/2011 5:29:05 PM

it would have been better if your screenshot included the [image] tag

12/29/2011 11:33:31 PM

t43 ... get rid of that pos

1/1/2012 10:52:14 AM