I'd like to use Linux but...

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

http://www.indygo.de/misc/linux_audio.png

lol

linux in a nutshell

Recording music on a computer is beyond me, but have any of you tried the UbuntuStudio flavor? It claims to be preloaded and configured for creation.

also, DeadBeef is my favorite music player. It's closest to boring unmodified foobar2000 in use.

audio in linux is so fucked.

whyfucked?

that diagram is a pretty good explanation! there are a whole bunch of different libraries/driver sets and all of them are half-finished and sometimes programs only like one of them, or two of them, or one of them only if it's "wrapped" inside another one, and sometimes updates break them, etc.. for a while after installing ubuntu i couldn't get sound from more than one program at a time, which i tell people i "fixed" but which really just stopped being a problem one day because i lit the right number of votive candles. things have been pretty smooth since then (although the sound in the native linux version of quake 3 could not be convinced to work and i eventually just installed the windows version under wine) and like everything else in linux It Gets Better but it's still the thing i've had the most problems with.

(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, June 30, 2011 9:08 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

loled @ this btw, love/hate the gnomic (gnumic) linux app names. "ekiga", "gwibber", "brasero", "pitivi".

hate microsoft and everything but you know what was a good name for a program? "word".

lol that's a good point actually

like everything else in linux It Gets Better

lol

the first ubuntu release that used pulseaudio was pretty dreadful - even the startup sound got the glitch remix treatment. second version was MUCH better. and it's a while since i've had any specific trouble (about a year ago, mplayer -ao oss to get decent playback of some media or other)

love/hate the gnomic (gnumic) linux app names. "ekiga", "gwibber", "brasero", "pitivi".

― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 3 July 2011 04:37 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also all the kde names that absolutely must begin with a k (no love there, just hate)

i experimented with ubuntu for a couple weeks before giving up in frustration by the sheer amount of effort i needed to put into things just to run super simple tasks. plugins, plugins, plugins, plugins....

so i aint h8in but can anyone explain to me the appeal of linux outside of server usages?

You feel cool

- no viruses
- no adware
- no spyware
- free stuff
- no windows
- less nagging (less an issue c/w win7)

Linux is good for my yak shavey moods when I want everything to be esoteric and command line based and use tiling window managers that you have to recompile to configure and stuff like that.