I'd like to use Linux but...

did they port tux racer to PS3??

let me log into psn and check, oh wait

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!

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.

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)"

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"

btw I found that bug and yes it asks people to try compiling alternative kernels until they find one that works

(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")

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.

Bitchy Baboon

laughed

glad i gave this nonsense up on the desktop when the developer preview of os x came out.

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)

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?

update to ubuntu 10.04 just killed my skype :(

could be skype killed your skype - they are having problems today

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

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?

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.

You can't install from the 10.04 boot CD at all? Really?

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.

have you tried the 11.04?

nah not yet... didn't really know if i wanted to mess with the Unity desktop or whatever. I'm a late adopter.

you don't have to use Unity ( but actually, it's fine.)

just select Classic Desktop at the login screen

hey in ubuntu 11.04 does anyone find that sometimes totem won't let you skip through an mp3? SO annoying

Why would you use totem?

Btw I just tried it and on the second mp3 I tried, it wouldn't let me skip through it.

i don't really like banshee or rhythmbox, i just like going to a folder and playing mp3s in totem....pretty annoying bug this.

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

XMMS?

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

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)

(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)

audacious seems to work well for me - thanks

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

thaaaaaaaaaaat is a toughie

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

maybe we should try and do a s/d music making software for linux?

anyone ever tried this one: http://www.mixxx.org/ ?

there is a thread somewhere for linux music tools. but these things change so frequently.

i have tried mixxx but not recently.

i love mixxx a lot

anyone tried ardour?

yea, if anyone has any experience with ardour, I'd love to hear about it.

I looked at the webpage once

lolz

I have used audacity on ubuntu with no problems for more modest recording of band jamz purposes

if I am deep in the creative process I hate to suddenly get some bug to fix - garageband is great in that sense. it owuld be nice to have a really basic yet solid "tascam porta studio" type app

the jack aspect scares me... linux audio in general does...

as in the audio input on the machine? or a usb input?

jack the extra extra layer of audio libraries on top of pulse / alsa / oss / whatever

http://jackaudio.org/

yeah the interaction between jack / pulseaudio / alsa / oss is something i've never understood either