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WOW Ubuntu Just Works!

ClockerXP

ClockerXP

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I was stupid and started a thread that promptly got locked:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1983959&enterthread=y

So I thought I'd give Linux yet another try. I'm happy to say it is working out this year! Ubuntu just works even with my Netgear wireless card on my old Compaq M700 (P3 850/600) 512MB laptop.

I'm now dual booting XP & Ubuntu. Can Ubuntu open up PPT documents and other office documents? I'm downloading all the updates including OpenOffice, If so, I may just drop XP all together,

I was just wondering if others had advice about Ubuntu? I'm sure I will still need one copy (legit) of XP for games and stuff (right??) but any advice is appreciated.
 
If Ubuntu fits your needs, then great. Use it.

If not, then there are a million other distros out there which might better fit your needs.

 
Originally posted by: ClockerXP
I was stupid and started a thread that promptly got locked:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=34&threadid=1983959&enterthread=y

So I thought I'd give Linux yet another try. I'm happy to say it is working out this year! Ubuntu just works even with my Netgear wireless card on my old Compaq M700 (P3 850/600) 512MB laptop.

I'm now dual booting XP & Ubuntu. Can Ubuntu open up PPT documents and other office documents? I'm downloading all the updates including OpenOffice, If so, I may just drop XP all together,

I was just wondering if others had advice about Ubuntu? I'm sure I will still need one copy (legit) of XP for games and stuff (right??) but any advice is appreciated.
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Yes it opens office files..

I had the same experience about a year ago wih ubuntu. Haven't quit since.. Showed many people also and they seem hooked too.
 
All I can say is Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu is the best thing that ever happened in my entire life of working with Blender 3D, Wings, Gimp, Yafray, Sunflow, F-Spot, and Inkscape
All of them are Ultra Faster, Ultra Stable, Virus Free, Spyware Free, Rootkit Free, DRM Free, Trojan Horse Free, Activation Free, 🙂 , Degradation Free, HDCP Free,🙂. It works out of the box and is very easy to install and to update.
It is Easy to Use, Conformant with Debian, SMP Ready, Highmem for 32 Bits Ready ( Above 4 Gigs using PAE ), Full of usefull stuff, bealtifull, Xinerama Ready and Faster, Highly customizable, Bug Free, and has an "In Hand easy" command Line tools.

I used Mandriva 2006 until I tried Kubuntu, now, after six month without a single jitter in my work or in my home, I will help them Via Pay Pal with the amount of Money I can, Ubuntu is the Best Linux I ever Used.

6.10 Kubuntu Edgy Eft is Simply My passion.

And I still have 4 Windows Licenses and I am using only one Right Now. I switched definetly and I am the most happy person after I did it.

Canonical Blessed us with this Linux.
 
I'm gonna have to give Linux another shot. Last time I tried linux it was slackware in the late 90's. I felt like it was too high maintenance and I needed three large volumes open on my desk simultaneously to understand what I was doing. Gonna give this distro a shot soon.

Are there any nice bootloaders or is LILO still the peice de resistance of loaders? I ask because it seemed like it was too easy to ah heck your drive up with lilo.
 
Originally posted by: JasonCoder
I'm gonna have to give Linux another shot. Last time I tried linux it was slackware in the late 90's. I felt like it was too high maintenance and I needed three large volumes open on my desk simultaneously to understand what I was doing. Gonna give this distro a shot soon.

Are there any nice bootloaders or is LILO still the peice de resistance of loaders? I ask because it seemed like it was too easy to ah heck your drive up with lilo.
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grub is definitely the default one now.

 
The way you want, but the standard is Grub today. Some people think Linux continues to operate trough console, well, it can be used trough console or not, but one point Linux Leave clear is that things are always pushed to limits of heir capacity and they never intend to limit the user, you can play MP3 in a command line tool for sample, course it haves an beaultifull player. But the fact behind Linux is you can use it the way you judge better for yourself, and it will not limit you to use only in visual or only in command line, but in all of the ways you can use it, it will be pushed to the best that the intelligent programmers can do for you and the humanity. Everyone can help. We are taking care of each other.

For sample:
KDE 3 have the best 2D control for windows in the planet. It can control every aspect of your windows when you launch a program and when you close the application too.
When they reach the limit they think that is OK for 2D, they will start to use 3D controls for animated things in your desktop, this is different than Beryl/XGL, you will have OpenGL controls for 3D icons, windows and much more on your desktop, and it will make a revolution in desktops, all without a bleeding edge hardware, but if you can buy a bleeding edge hardware it will fly.
 
What do you guys find is best for playing wmv files as well as wmv plug-ins for FireFox? Installing applicatons still seems like it's a pita (I'm still trying to figure out how to get FireFox 2.0.0.1 installed) but I'm willing to give it a try.
 
Recent versions of mplayer or VLC (recommended for normal playing) are capable of most *.wmv playback (no drm).

I never had much luck with various media players plugins for firefox but in synaptic if you have the extra repositories enabled you should be able to find a mozilla-vlc or something like that. Also there is plugins for mplayer and totem, but obviously you only want one to be installed at a time.

How you generally install programs is simply through synaptic package management application. Go google for ubuntu wiki or go visit Ubuntu's homepage it will explain how apt-get package management and repositories work.

edit:
Here check out this page.
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy

You don't have to read it in detail, but spending 20-30 minutes just going over it will help you later when you need to find answers.
 
Originally posted by: greylica
I used Mandriva 2006 until I tried Kubuntu, now, after six month without a single jitter in my work or in my home, I will help them Via Pay Pal with the amount of Money I can, Ubuntu is the Best Linux I ever Used.
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I certainly don't mean to put a damper on your philanthropic intentions but, out of all the open source projects that need money, Ubuntu is really not the one hurting the worst 😉
 
Are there any nice bootloaders or is LILO still the peice de resistance of loaders? I ask because it seemed like it was too easy to ah heck your drive up with lilo.
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LILO is still available but GRUB is the default in almost all distros now since it understands most filesystems. But both can equally ah heck your drive since they overwrite the MBR in most cases.

What do you guys find is best for playing wmv files as well as wmv plug-ins for FireFox? Installing applicatons still seems like it's a pita (I'm still trying to figure out how to get FireFox 2.0.0.1 installed) but I'm willing to give it a try.
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Generally I hate videos playing in my browser, I even usually download the videos from Google Video and YouTube instead of watching them in the flash player. But there is a totem-mozilla package that should work as long as the w32codecs package is installed. I actually don't know what package does it for me, it just works for some reason =)

And don't install software manually unless you absolutely have to, just stick with what's in the repositories and be happy.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman


And don't install software manually unless you absolutely have to, just stick with what's in the repositories and be happy.
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Yeah, I had a lot of headaches when I first tried out Linux and had the Windows mentalitity of trying to 'install' stuff. After I discovered Synaptic and apt-get, everything becomes much, much easier, to the point that sometimes I wish I could just apt-get install stuff in Windows 🙂
 
After I discovered Synaptic and apt-get, everything becomes much, much easier, to the point that sometimes I wish I could just apt-get install stuff in Windows
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Exactly, after you understand the system and get comfortable using it you wish Windows had something similar. Being able to add, remove, update, etc almost all of your software in one place is a huge time saver. And it reduces code duplication since every application doesn't have to have it's own update code.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Exactly, after you understand the system and get comfortable using it you wish Windows had something similar. Being able to add, remove, update, etc almost all of your software in one place is a huge time saver. And it reduces code duplication since every application doesn't have to have it's own update code.
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My root folder is with only 3GB. With all of the good software that I use everyday. Install XP without the drivers, all about 2Gb ( Without page file and Docs please ) to start.

Run Windows with all of my workflow - 310 MB ( 37MB thanks to Anti Virus 🙁 )
Run Linux with all of my workflow - 149 MB ( No fat...)
 
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