i.e. i am talking you out of linux
― finish with a fast piston pump (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 5 May 2011 20:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
i was going to suggest get vmware player for windows and try out any number of linux distros.but vmware makes you go through this whole signup thing and i dunno...if you can get it working, it's great for virus-free browsing, installing demos of things that you don't want infectingyour actual machine.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
or just do this
― finish with a fast piston pump (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
or this
AA's post is pretty comprehensive. i've been out of the windows loop since xp (not because i've been using linux so long but because i used xp so long) so i have nothing to say about either vista or 7, but that is indeed What I Hear. i've never had any problems with openoffice but i basically only use the word processor (i've heard bad things about the excel/powerpoint manques) and i've never had an office job. actually i've gotten really snotty and hippie lately and started filing all my writing in plaintext. which i edit in emacs.
but yeah you're basically getting free stuff and security in exchange for your computer becoming more of a hobby and less of an appliance.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
(oh and if you play any game more advanced than spider solitare stay far away)
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha unity just froze
― finish with a fast piston pump (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp oh yes Linux is now the worst OS in existence for games (and I mean that factually i.e. of the 11 current distinct platforms I can think of it's #11)
― finish with a fast piston pump (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
did they port tux racer to PS3??
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 5 May 2011 22:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
let me log into psn and check, oh wait
― finish with a fast piston pump (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 5 May 2011 22:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Right, I've installed that Wubi thing and I'm posting from Ubuntu. Ain't it speedy! A few things are a bit annoying (transferring bookmarks and t0rr3nts over from Chrome and utorrent, Flash doesn't seem to work in Chrome) but I'll have a play over the weekend.
I'll need to keep Windows for gaming, but I could get used to this!
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Friday, 6 May 2011 06:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
After a couple of days unity freezes and the machine needs to be restarted. The solution offered by your friendly helpful linux community is "FILE A BUG REPORT". >< THIS close to dumping linux forever.
― handy multi-bicycle parking station from available materials (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 May 2011 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't know if that is better or worse than the other standard fanboy-of-slightly-esoteric-software response "it works perfectly for me, you have clearly done something wrong and know nothing about computers (p.s. how dare you complain when you could just find the bug and fix it and recompile everything ever and submit a kernel patch, just like that)"
― russ conway's game of life (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 12 May 2011 21:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah that, or a third outcome: "there is no open source driver, blame the manufacturer, sign this petition and this petition and this one and this one and then submit a complaint to the manufacturer"
― handy multi-bicycle parking station from available materials (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 May 2011 21:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw I found that bug and yes it asks people to try compiling alternative kernels until they find one that works
― handy multi-bicycle parking station from available materials (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 May 2011 21:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
(i.e. in the 21st century a suitable and technically feasible response would be "click this link and say 'yes' when prompted, if it fails then follow these simple steps to remove it")
― handy multi-bicycle parking station from available materials (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 12 May 2011 21:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
I just put Ubuntu (Bitchy Baboon) on an external bootable drive but during upgrade process it totally fuxored the whole filesystem- I couldnt even boot. Good thing I hadn't done anything with it and I can just start over. Still, it is fast when its working.
― Latham Green, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 14:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
Bitchy Baboon
laughed
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 17:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
glad i gave this nonsense up on the desktop when the developer preview of os x came out.
― caek, Wednesday, 25 May 2011 17:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
got End of Life messages trying to update ubuntu 9.04 this morning 8(
(am using 10.4 day to day but keep 9.04 around just in case (and it was 32bit rather than 64). plus there are things there that i still haven't migrated, like my thunderbird folders full of mail)
― koogs, Thursday, 26 May 2011 10:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
spent the last day trying to use rpmbuild and just plain NOT GETTING IT
i think i get it now, the different files have to exist in a directory before you tar them up?
― colby, Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
update to ubuntu 10.04 just killed my skype :(
― shalmaneser (tpp), Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
could be skype killed your skype - they are having problems today
― koogs, Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
I am wondering now if my persistence file is only 4gb will that mean I cannot use the rest of the 250gb for anything or if that is just system settings and assorted shlit. I got a weir d browser called doobie that only finds german web pages
― Latham Green, Thursday, 26 May 2011 16:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
installed ubuntu 11.04. chose the old darkish theme ('Nw Wave') as it has the buttons in the right order. only the new top menu thing doesn't understand themes and is showing the menu items in black on dark grey.
one thing i like - banshee info and controls on the volume control applet.
so is that the end for compiz and the rotaty cube thing?
― koogs, Friday, 27 May 2011 11:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
3 years using ubuntu, boot drive filesystem is fucked up for 4th time as of last night.. shitty disk utilities think it's a superblock issue... wasted a world of time last go round trying to fix it, guess i'll just reinstall. the system gives me a heads up though because first i notice that images stop loading in browser, and then notice i can't create or delete files or folders on that drive. i can copy them, though, so I got to copy off whatever i wanted before i rebooted to bad news. this sucks though.. can't be that common, so i wonder what i'm doing wrong.
also 10.04 boot cd will never install... gotta go back to 9.04 or something and update upgrade update.
― kind of droll but mostly rad (Kerm), Monday, 27 June 2011 12:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
You can't install from the 10.04 boot CD at all? Really?
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 27 June 2011 20:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
fixed it... still don't know what's causing the initial corruption, but apparently what's been going on in my recovery attempts is the ubuntu livecd automatically attempts to mount the drive - or do something with it - and that attempt just waits and waits forever, so you can't fsck the drive from the livecd desktop, and lots of other utilities fail or behave mysteriously. Burned a slax disc and fscked from there, rebooted, everything seems back to normal.
I don't know what's wrong with the reinstall.. i think my disc is a good burn of a good image, maybe not.. but i've always had to install an older version and leapfrog ahead.
― kind of droll but mostly rad (Kerm), Monday, 27 June 2011 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
have you tried the 11.04?
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 27 June 2011 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
nah not yet... didn't really know if i wanted to mess with the Unity desktop or whatever. I'm a late adopter.
― kind of droll but mostly rad (Kerm), Monday, 27 June 2011 21:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
you don't have to use Unity ( but actually, it's fine.)
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 27 June 2011 21:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
just select Classic Desktop at the login screen
― sometimes all it takes is a healthy dose of continental indiepop (tomofthenest), Monday, 27 June 2011 21:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
hey in ubuntu 11.04 does anyone find that sometimes totem won't let you skip through an mp3? SO annoying
― tpp, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Why would you use totem?
― svend, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Btw I just tried it and on the second mp3 I tried, it wouldn't let me skip through it.
― svend, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 22:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't really like banshee or rhythmbox, i just like going to a folder and playing mp3s in totem....pretty annoying bug this.
― tpp, Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
banshee seems wicked buggy, almost unusable for me for some reason. I wish there was a lightweight winamp type thing for ubuntu.I just sintalled 10.4 alongside windows on my new work pc - but getting the drivers for th wireless newt gear usb receiver is going to be bitchy
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
XMMS?
― laughing stalk (diamonddave85), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
You wind! I also am having trouble installing FFMPEG for some reason - I feel so lost in linux land at times like this. I finally figure out how to install the program utuberipper and it doesnt open when I click it - sheesh
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
audacious(2?) is a pretty lightweight player and a bit more up to date than xmms.
open when you click it? what is this, windows? 8)
― koogs, Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
(what bugged me this morning was trying to remember the name of the program that handles pdfs. works when i double-click on them but i was trying to add a pdf to the task bar and just dragging it there didn't work. was 'evince' ffs)
― koogs, Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
audacious seems to work well for me - thanks
― tpp, Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was sitting there using my macbook today thinking "I will never buy a mac again" they're too expensive. All I really use mac for anyway is garageband and surely that can be done with some other software
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
thaaaaaaaaaaat is a toughie
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
If I see one more bit of John Mayer trying to teach me to play guitar I will throw my macbook into Steve job's gaping hole
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe we should try and do a s/d music making software for linux?
anyone ever tried this one: http://www.mixxx.org/ ?
― tpp, Friday, 1 July 2011 08:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
there is a thread somewhere for linux music tools. but these things change so frequently.
i have tried mixxx but not recently.
― koogs, Friday, 1 July 2011 08:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
i love mixxx a lot
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 1 July 2011 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
anyone tried ardour?
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Friday, 1 July 2011 15:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
yea, if anyone has any experience with ardour, I'd love to hear about it.
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Friday, 1 July 2011 17:18 (1 year ago) Permalink