My uncle uses ……… ..sorry, he used Linux on his computer for just three days.

Before I want to correct something that I wrote in my article on the free software law. Where says:

If the DGI reacts and remakes its web forms making them compatible with Firefox.

You have to add: and also with Chrome and Linux.

Yesterday my dad did the acid test with a DGI web form when trying to use it with Firefox on your Manjaro (Chrome is not supported. SeriouslyIt is a form from 5 years ago, one of those that works and I will not touch you again). You have not been able to get the draft of your return saved so that you could print it, plus every time you open it, it always asks to install some .xpi plugins that are included in the form. I leave the link to see the form (in the formimages folder there is some source code in javascript), and have an idea of ​​what fucking which is to make an annual VAT affidavit.

There is always something that makes you go back to the window, even for a little while and then go back to the penguin. But the migration I want to deal with today is my uncle's. My uncle was the one who inspired me to love computers, despite the fact that now they have changed their tastes towards games. He has a Zotac AD10 mini pc, all with AMD / ATI technology (E350 Dual Core 1.6Ghz, Radeon HD 6350 card, 4gb ram, 120gb sata hard drive), it came with Windows 7, you only use it to watch movies, use XBMC and Google applications. Like Dad, he was also screwed with the slowness of his Windows 7, until one day his mini hard drive crashed. I told him that he could take advantage of installing a Linux, but he was somewhat insecure, because his main concern was the XBMC and its plugins. He decided on Ubuntu (just because the official XBMC repos are for Ubuntu, although there are for other distros), he installed it on his own and removed the Amazon Dash (suggestion of mine).

Good night comes and tells me that the installation was successful except for one detail. I had no HDMI sound. And well, since I was going to spend Christmas at his house, I took the opportunity to fix that detail. It was not an easy task. When you are looking for tutorials on how to enable HDMI sound on a computer with AMD / ATI technology and with kernel 3.0 onwards, they tell you to modify the / etc / default / grub file by changing the line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

by

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash radeon.audio=1"

then a sudo update-grub and finally reboot the machine. That only enables sound but doesn't make it work. To make it work you must also install the drivers. I tried with the drivers open and after some struggle I got it to work …………….but the video is slower (As my uncle tells me that it is because the processor is going at 800Mhz, half the speed)

3 days later: I get this message on Google+. I copy it in full.

Dear nephew:

With bitterness I have to say that I have returned, for urgent reasons, to the OS of the window for various problems, although I do not rule out trying again. But on the way I discovered several things to share.

1) ATI support for the Linux platform is bad. Moreover, for a person who has lived a lifetime working under the proprietary platforms of the window, the installation of ATI drivers is not friendly at all.

2) In blogs, forums and specialized pages there is a lot of banana It seems that he was born plugged into a Matrix type computer and like NEO, he sees himself with such a superior level that Linus looks stupid, when in his life there must have been and made more than 40 lines of code without use copy / paste. This significantly alienates new Linux users. Be patient, it took the window more than 20 years to become what it is today.

3) It's not friendly, but it's not hell either. You have to dedicate time to work especially with the issue of the terminal, which takes time to discover that it existed, more or less 1 hour. Thanks to an old forero who took pity on my soul and threw at me like 20 commands as if to start talking, I think he had fun with my comments.

4) Strong but fragile. I believe in the maturity of the Linux system, but it is not strong since a neophyte left it completely useless on the third day of use. I don't consider myself capable of saying why, except that when I do what ATI tells me to do, things don't work out.

Dear nephew, I promise a second round I will be more cautious and try to read a little more before doing some batting. Hope the SSD improves my baby's performance. (My note: That last one is because you want to buy an SSD. )

Then I remembered that he had installed the open drivers and I asked him if he tried with the Catalyst and he said:

Don't play the drama, that's what I wanted to do, that's why it made me shit ... after reading a bit I realized the error and that is that you have to completely uninstall all the drivers before installing the AMD drivers. Rookie mistake.

The issue is that I did what appeared to me on a page that said how to install them and when I did, the option to install them with the / force option appeared to force the installation even though I already have a previous installation.

When I finished he told me that there was an error and he asked me to restart so that the changes could take effect. The machine restarted and never worked again.

Lastly I asked if I can use your statements to put together an article here, to piss off the fans who congratulated me on to contrast my post of the successful migration of my dad (Except for that incident I mentioned at the beginning) and he said "Of course".

Maybe next time. Happy New Year GNU / Linuxeros.

PS: Man, next time let me install the system for you. Commenters, if you want to suggest a distro, make it cute, pretty, and out of the box. But the most important, let the XBMC work there.