So, over Christmas, I decided to re-jig the setup of my main PC.

I’d been getting back into Linux, and quite liked trying out different distros, however the current harddisc setup was quite restricting.

So, I went onto Dabs, and ordered myself a new 80Gb internal drive. Not huge, but Windows is always going to be my main OS (as a gamer), and its more than enough for my purposes (since all my main media files and the like will still be stored on the Windows drive.

So, I finally got it setup this weekend. I’ve now got an expanded 40Gb of space dedicated to Ubuntu (up from the previous 16 or so), and I’ve installed SuSE 10.3 (which I was quite impressed with) on a 20Gb partition. That still leaves around 16Gb for me to chuck on anything else that takes my fancy.

Of course, the only problem with starting from scratch was the inevitable setup issues. Ubuntu 7.x still hates my soundcard (a Realtek card using the hda-intel driver for Alsa), but fortunately I found this really good thread on UbuntuForums that sorted it easily.

SuSE was slightly more straight-forward, although with the 64bit version I couldn’t get the proper NVidia drivers running. So I fell back on the 32bit version and everything setup smoothly.

I must admit, I’ve tried going down the 64bit route a couple of times now, however I’m just not convinced its nearly stable or supported enough for me to switch at the moment. Hopefully in a couple of years it will be though, but for now I’m sticking with the 32bit OS, as third party applications seem to be a lot easier to get and run under it.

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