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Offline 4deck

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Anyone use Ubutu
« on: November 10, 2010, 05:16:55 PM »
I just installed it today, and quite pleased with it. I used to administer Unix machines, so Pretty familiar with the operating system. Was also very impressed, that they even had support for my nvidia card. It also read my ntfs windows drive. Can mount it and pull over pics. Nice add ons too. This will be a new browser system, and web development rig. It dual boots fantastic. The front end is pretty slick for a gui interface. I was thinking of upgrading to 7 but this will work better for my needs. I'll still run xp till its no longer supported.

Anyway if you have a spare drive lying around, or can donate some space, Highly recommend Ubutu.

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Offline 68Wooley

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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2010, 12:13:40 AM »
Have been using it for years. Its the least painful of all the Linuxes for me.

If you can live without MS Office (Open Office is OK as replacement for Word, but blows for spreadsheet / presentations and there's no realistic replacement for MS Project), and games aren't your thing, its worth a try.

Professionally, it makes a great development platform (other than for .Net obviously), but there's still a lot of niggles that might put off the non-technical home user, like limited itunes / ipod support etc. There's still too many occasions when you're typing sudo apt-get install for it to be really ready as an alternative to Windows or Mac for the consumer user.
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Offline Jayhawk

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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2010, 12:41:38 AM »
I installed it on one of my old laptops.  It was pretty cool, fairly simple and good for basic stuff.  It doesn't mess with my laptops volume keys real well though.
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Offline Ardy123

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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2010, 12:42:48 AM »
I use kubuntu, ubuntu + kde. I have dual boot for this game.

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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2010, 01:52:48 AM »
I have it, but must confess that it does not work completely. No sound, - does not seem to support my chipset. All installations of add-ons also seem to fail.
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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2010, 12:32:04 PM »
Well I got it working as a make shift LAMP server, for development with Joomla. What a frigging pain in the arse, but all well now.

Kewl operating system if your into tinkering.  :aok
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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2010, 12:42:50 PM »
I've used it with BackTrack and AirCrack, but that's all I'm sayin'   :D
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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2010, 01:12:03 PM »
Quote from: Cthulhu on November 11, 2010, 12:42:50 PM
I've used it with BackTrack and AirCrack, but that's all I'm sayin'   :D


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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2010, 06:11:27 PM »
Quote from: Shuffler on November 11, 2010, 01:12:03 PM

Quick hide your WIFIs :D

Hey Shuffler, what's your BSSID?  :devil
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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2010, 06:58:07 PM »
Currently run dual-boot Win 7, Ubuntu 9.10, going to re-format and run 10. The only reason I boot to Windows is to get email, AH (rarely lately), and a few legacy games. I could probably get some of them to run under Ubuntu, but I haven't bothered.

I'd go full Ubuntu on my laptop if I had a desktop to play AH, I can do anything I need with it, and I must confess I can browse almost any unscrupulous web site and be relatively safe ;)
 
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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2010, 07:52:12 PM »
Anyone know if you can get Ubutu to support trackIR?
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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #11 on: November 16, 2010, 06:00:34 AM »
Don't think they have a driver yet, but you could write em, and find out. Im looking for a descent DVD Player. Anyone familiar with any that actually play DVD's. I dont know if its a codec problem or wtf it is, but I can't play my dvds now, well on Ubuntu anyway.
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Offline 68Wooley

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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #12 on: November 16, 2010, 03:16:18 PM »
Quote from: 4deck on November 16, 2010, 06:00:34 AM
Don't think they have a driver yet, but you could write em, and find out. Im looking for a descent DVD Player. Anyone familiar with any that actually play DVD's. I dont know if its a codec problem or wtf it is, but I can't play my dvds now, well on Ubuntu anyway.

Try VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #13 on: November 16, 2010, 03:31:58 PM »
Quote from: 68Wooley on November 16, 2010, 03:16:18 PM
Try VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/


Also - you might need to install some libraries if (as is most likely) you are playing region encoded DVD's:

sudo apt-get install libdvdread3
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

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Re: Anyone use Ubutu
« Reply #14 on: November 16, 2010, 04:23:49 PM »
Yeah it was the libraries, they don't ship with the install. Had to load about 5 packages, and all is kewl now. I'm really digging this system. I don't have to put any more crap into Windows, and corrupt the registery, blow it away, and reload. I try a lot of packages for my needs, and this is just perfect. If you dable in web development, this is really a nice package to keep everything separated from your gaming rig. If you can get a hold of a 100 gig disk, which are fairly cheap now, I would definitely recommend this option. Not to mention the front end is so customisable I really dig it. There's also some nice hardware monitors too I've been playing with. This thing is screaming on my rig. Not even breaking a sweat. The only thing holding back is the internet connection I have, which is dsl.
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Forgot who said this while trying to take a base, but the quote goes like this. "I cant help you with ack, Im not in attack mode" This is with only 2 ack up in the town while troops were there, waiting. The rest of the town was down.
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