That's an interesting mental leap you make from "stable" to "easy to use." Put plainly, Linux stability on the desktop basically boils down to your video card: with NVidia, you can enjoy a performant system that basically never, ever crashes; with AMD, you are totally, utterly fucked. Unfortunately for me, I have 2x 6970's in Crossfire, and stability and performance for me using fglrx on Debian Testing is just abysmal. No Crossfire support, frequent crashes, no Suspend / Hibernate, can't run fullscreen with Eyefinity, etc.. It's a joke.I suggested Linux Mint because it still defaults to Gnome2, which is probably the most usable window manager for general computing. Debian Testing defaults to Gnome3 now, which is honestly not bad, just incomplete. And finally, Ubuntu is now pushing Unity full-bore, which is a total turd no matter how you cut it. Users (myself included) have been jumping ship from Ubuntu ever since Canonical decided to all but force its half-baked tablet UI, and cut support for other, mature window managers. I honestly think Unity will be the death of Ubuntu, if they don't pull their heads out of their asses soon.Anyway, back on topic, following these steps, getting AprQ2 running on Linux isn't too difficult: http://jdolan.dyndns.org/trac/wiki/AprQ2
Vae, your posts often wreak of poorly regurgitated 2nd-hand knowledge. If you don't have anything to add to what was already said, there's no sense chiming in, repeating the same information, just to try to appear relevant.Just curious, haunted, what hardware are you running on? XP is 12 years old, dudeĀ
Uh, Debian Stable is "stable" because there's hardly a single package less than 18 months old in it. You can't have it both ways; you either get newer packages, or stable packages. I'm running Wheezy, and trust me, it's far from stable, and its not due to configuration errors. Point being, Debian isn't necessarily any better or worse at managing defects. If you install Ubuntu 10.10 right now (pretty comparable to Debian Squeeze) it also has far fewer kinks than [insert latest release of any distro here].