Ubuntu 11.04

[pete1229]

Ubuntu 11.04 This o/s was released today (after many beta versions) so I installed it along side Windows 7 64bit, which is how I had Ubuntu 10.10 installed. The install went fine and all looked good until I tried to use Rhythembox which worked great with 10.10, and then I tried installing and using Flash player which also gave me problems. 11.04 uses only the Banshee music player which pales (in my opinion) to rhythembox and forget about any streaming vids that use Flashplayer. Anyone know how to get around these problems before I go back to UB 10.10?

 

[lxskllr]

Rhythmbox should still be in the repositories. You can install it from there. What's the problem with Flash?

 

[VirtualLarry]

I also had trouble with flash player in 10.04. I could install it, but when youtube loaded, the controls around the video in the flash player were unresponsive. It was like the mouse inputs would randomly activate, or most of the time they bypassed the flash player. It was a very frustrating experience. I would NOT recommend Linux, if you want to view content that uses flash player. Stick with a supported platform, like Windows. There are some things that Linux just can't manage to do properly.

 

[lxskllr]

Flash works fine for me in Ubuntu 10.04, and MacPup 5.2. I'm also running Gnash in Debian sid, and it works ok, but the performance isn't as good as the proprietary format.

 

[Nothinman]

I also had trouble with flash player in 10.04. I could install it, but when youtube loaded, the controls around the video in the flash player were unresponsive. It was like the mouse inputs would randomly activate, or most of the time they bypassed the flash player. It was a very frustrating experience. I would NOT recommend Linux, if you want to view content that uses flash player. Stick with a supported platform, like Windows. There are some things that Linux just can't manage to do properly.

Flash is supported just as well on Linux as it is on Windows and any other platform, poorly. And the fault is Adobe's, Linux can manage it just fine.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Flash is supported just as well on Linux as it is on Windows and any other platform, poorly. And the fault is Adobe's, Linux can manage it just fine.

There's something fundementally wrong with Flash on Linux, if it cannot even properly process mouse input events.

 

[lxskllr]

There's something fundementally wrong with Flash on Linux, if it cannot even properly process mouse input events.

It's your setup, not Flash. I can play YouTube videos, and Flash games all day long. It hits the cpu harder than I think it should, but it works.

 

[Nothinman]

There's something fundementally wrong with Flash on Linux, if it cannot even properly process mouse input events.

Except that it can, something had to be uniquely wrong with your setup.

 

[Schadenfroh]

I did a clean install on my desktop, upgrade install on my laptop. The frames around windows vanish on my laptop, forcing me to logout and back in randomly, very odd. Not sure if it is POS ATI Proprietary drivers doing it or something gone wrong in the upgrade. My desktop works flawlessly and I am trying to get used to Unity.

Would have liked for Netbeans 7 to have been included, but oh well, not worth the risk / complications of installing the non-repository release from Sun.

 

[Megatomic]

I installed it on my IBM T42 and it is perfect. It even detected my ASUS USB-N10 wireless dongle. My video hardware isn't robust enough to support the newer features but classic Gnome is just fine.