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Switched my laptop to Ubuntu...

Alstroph	Date: February 9, 2008 @ 3:58 AM ... Jeeze what a headache. The operating system locked up a few times. The video flickered every now and then. My title bars would disappear leaving me with no way to move the windows and making it difficult to minimize them and close them. The gui-enhancement program compizfusion or the special nVidia driver must have destroyed something... because now I can't get back to my GUI... all I see is a command line. Wine turned out not to be as much of a miracle program for me, the ignorant non-Linux guru. I liked my experience with Ubuntu... I just wished it didn't hate my hardware and/or my me. I'm running Ubuntu from the Install DVD right now... which isn't very fun to use. Help! Send me an airplane...
Saadya	Date: February 9, 2008 @ 4:01 AM 1. If you use Ubuntu, you are a nerd 2. If you are a nerd, you know how to handle problems with Ubuntu Conclusion: give up.
Opossum	Date: February 9, 2008 @ 4:05 AM On 9th Feb 2008, Saadya said: 1. If you use Ubuntu, you are a nerd 2. If you are a nerd, you know how to handle problems with Ubuntu Conclusion: give up. Oh no. That's a paradox.
Saadya	Date: February 9, 2008 @ 4:12 AM Since there are words 'if', it is not. Clearly, he's not a nerd.
Alstroph	Date: February 9, 2008 @ 5:05 AM Actually I got it up and running again Now I need to find good video drivers that won't screw me.
Alstroph	Date: February 9, 2008 @ 5:07 AM Do nerds stay up until 5AM fixing their broken laptops? Or am I a geek? Wait... which one of those don't I want to be?
Opossum	Date: February 9, 2008 @ 5:14 AM At least geek rhymes with savory things, like Greek, teak, and tweak.
Alstroph	Date: February 9, 2008 @ 6:11 AM Great. Now that it's 6AM I seem to have everything running great.
zedsalt	Date: February 9, 2008 @ 10:55 AM I'm told that, technically, a "geek" is someone who, to entertain others, will eat things that people usually don't eat. It's part of the grand sideshow tradition. I'll say a little prayer for Alstroph and his Ubuntu.
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 14, 2008 @ 10:17 AM And I was going to give Ubuntu a run on the spare machine... But if you are having issues, especially with nVidia drivers, I'm screwed.
shadowself	Date: February 15, 2008 @ 12:34 AM Try it from a LiveCD, Chillin. You don't need to install it, so you won't blow anything up. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
Woof	Date: February 15, 2008 @ 8:01 PM Ubuntu is interesting, but personally if I was going to switch, I'd use Uhura. It's got cooler wallpaper, too:
zedsalt	Date: February 16, 2008 @ 10:37 AM I've gotta say, that one scene in a Star Trek movie where she was doing a fan dance to distract or lure some foe...have you seen that? I think I read somewhere that she was in her early 60s when she did that scene. I'd say something along the lines of "I hope I can be in that good of shape at that age", but seeing as how I'm no where near that at twenty years younger, I don't entertain much hope.
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 17, 2008 @ 5:10 PM I'm gonna give it a bash when I sort out the spare machine with a 2nd hard drive. The CD option I was considering but the wireless adapter I'm not too bothered about right now, since the spare doesn't have to go online... Still, it was destined to be my FTP/torrent server for my music ( and other things ) - There's a question, what p2p & music writing apps do you guys run on Linux?
jack	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 10:43 AM fluxTorrent- its an interface to bittorrent you can control through your browser; really useful for headless machines. aMule is an OSS version of emule, works well, needs a bit of configuring though. If you're more into trying music production on Linux, http://ubuntustudio.org/ is well worth a look.
leedsquietman	Date: February 21, 2008 @ 5:10 PM Linux is still limited for Music production - Ardour - looks nice but lacks a lot of features of windows/mac especially plugins and advanced editing features and NO MIDI makes it a no go for me. Audacity - reasonable audio editor and basic multitracker that suffers exactly in the same way as Ardour. Rosegarden - has rudimentary MIDI and audio, not the nicest interface and still basic stuff if you've been spoiled. Maybe your best bet is to run Reaper (a windows DAW) under WINE, I've been told this is a nice combination for Linux, even though it's not a native Linux program...
Cryxan	Date: February 29, 2008 @ 8:58 AM I also recently switched my laptop to Ubuntu. Overall it's been a good experience and I'm eventually going to convert my desktop, too. I love the level of control I have, and the add/remove apps manager, and how everything is free, and how I don't have to worry about Windows security holes, and I could go on... My only big issue was with wireless drivers, but I'll resolve that eventually.
rico	Date: March 15, 2008 @ 9:42 AM what is your wireless card info? I'll find what u need.
rico	Date: March 15, 2008 @ 9:45 AM Alstroph try startx if that errors out, post what the error is.
Cryxan	Date: March 22, 2008 @ 12:37 PM Hi rico, I just saw your post here. It's an Atheros AR5007EG if you believe Windows, AR5006EG if you believe Ubuntu. I have two versions of the driver and successfully installed both with ndiswrapper, but for some reason I'm unable to see or configure a wireless network. With or without HAL enabled. I still need to look into madwifi.
Distilled1	Date: March 22, 2008 @ 2:14 PM I have a lap top I want to try this on. So can someone walk me through what steps to start with? its a WIN 98 older and small but it will be my toy. to learn better on, as I always run into issues starting the OS and maybe its how I format or the bios???
Cryxan	Date: March 22, 2008 @ 3:23 PM Did you want to dual-boot, or do you want to do a fresh install? I'll be happy to share what I learned, but I'm pretty new to this stuff, myself.
hantu	Date: March 23, 2008 @ 12:31 AM My experience has been quite nice. Got it dual-booting with windows xp and it works great. I did have a few issues with permissions, drivers, and just little things that windows does automatically. I'm not complaining, this shit is free and it's a good OS, and it's free. I have had it freeze up on me many times, but it was usually down to me poking around with some settings like the vast array of compizfusion options. I do have visual settings on basic now. As fun as wobbly windows, the cube and all them other pretty things can be, it tends to get in the way and, as i said, make things crash. ok, truth be told, i found myself getting distracted from my work and throwing about my wobbly windows from desktop to desktop and then putting them on fire at the click of my mouse Buzz, i use Ktorrent btw. Kinda like utorrent. If i get a Playstation 3 i will have to try Ubuntu on it, unless that Yellow Dog Linux is better.
hantu	Date: March 23, 2008 @ 5:09 AM oh, i broke my ubuntu, knew i should have kept my trap shut back to windows... for now.