Ubuntu

[Edify]

For you noobs, I recommend using Wubi. It's a Windows installer and installs Ubuntu like a program, but allows you to boot into Ubuntu and keep your Windows installation without any partitioning.

Yessss.. finally I can try it without having to deal with partitioning!

Currently using it. It looks much nicer than XP too. If I'm gonna game though, I'll switch over to Windows because I don't want to deal with Wine.

P.S. Shift+Alt+Up ftw

Edit: Apparently I'm running Firefox 3. Interesting..

[D1st0rt]

Over the summer I plan to blow away the desktop I'm currently running linux on and setting up VirtualBox on a fresh Gentoo stage 1. Inspired by this blog entry

On a side note, I've found it way easier to do what I want in Gentoo than other distros. (I've tried Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and most recently Sabayon which is a Gentoo variant that I ended up liking less) Your mileage may vary, of course.

[koan]

linux sucks balls and is a waste of time unless you're some programmer twat

[Saturn V]

For you noobs, I recommend using Wubi. It's a Windows installer and installs Ubuntu like a program, but allows you to boot into Ubuntu and keep your Windows installation without any partitioning.

[Money]

just requested a cd, GONNA CH-CH-CH-CHECK IT OUT

[DoTheFandango]

listen, i'm retarded and figured all this out. it's really simple to install anything, especially with the newest ubuntu, i really don't know where you are fucking up.

[Xog]

i'm having extreme difficulty installing ANYTHING on ubuntu... i thought u said it's as easy as clicking a button? WTF! the only thing i've been able to do on ubuntu so far is surf the web and download continuum 50 million times. i have like 3 GBs used up already just trying to install continuum over and over with failed attempts. i'm so fucking confused about the command line prompt bullshit. I wish this shit had a fucking install button and everything could work out perfectly. But no, I have to follow 5 pages of directions to install the fuckin thing, half way, then get lost. FUCK !

oOo, let me install the linux AIM version... that should be easy cuz it's a popular program....

but WAIT! there's instructions on there TOO! Again.. no install button. gotta open up the damn terminal and type shit i've never heard before let alone understand. I think the only thing i've figured out is
tar = target.


I demand an install button. :annoyed:

[Jerome Scuggs]

I've tried JACK and Pulse and everything ever and blah. It just takes too much time to get one thing working and then it breaks everything else and then something starts causing latency and then an input stops working and then you have to reconfigure everything and then and then and then.

I just plug stuff into my macbook and it works perfectly.

jeez, i didn't even get far enough to get one thing working :/

[castromarx]

you should check out JACK.

I've tried JACK and Pulse and everything ever and blah. It just takes too much time to get one thing working and then it breaks everything else and then something starts causing latency and then an input stops working and then you have to reconfigure everything and then and then and then.

I just plug stuff into my macbook and it works perfectly.

[castromarx]

once i somehow manage to get wine on there it should be a breeze.

What exactly are the Windows apps you think you'll need on Linux? Aside from games (and photoshop? - which I've had moderate success running in wine but the gimp is good enough for a loser like me.) Linux has competitive, open source options for pretty much everything.

[Jerome Scuggs]

i wouldnt mind giving my current computer a clean sweep then starting over with a linux based system (as a second computer, i plan on getting another windows machine soon)

on a scale of 1 to 10, how tough is it to sweep your computer and then put linux on it.

and when i say 'sweep' i mean reformat. i just wanna wipe the thing clean and start from scratch.

easy-peasy. i woke up after a night of drinking with ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop 2 years ago, and since then the installation process has only gotten easier and easier.

[castromarx]

i wouldnt mind giving my current computer a clean sweep then starting over with a linux based system (as a second computer, i plan on getting another windows machine soon)

on a scale of 1 to 10, how tough is it to sweep your computer and then put linux on it.

and when i say 'sweep' i mean reformat. i just wanna wipe the thing clean and start from scratch.

Put in your Ubuntu CD and reboot. That's it. Either a 1, or a 10, whichever way your scale is going. As long as you don't have any really obscure hardware, you should be able to connect to the net and get extra goodies and all that no problem.

[Xog]

success!


a number 2 was a caps Z -.-

[Zeebu]

i wouldnt mind giving my current computer a clean sweep then starting over with a linux based system (as a second computer, i plan on getting another windows machine soon)

on a scale of 1 to 10, how tough is it to sweep your computer and then put linux on it.

and when i say 'sweep' i mean reformat. i just wanna wipe the thing clean and start from scratch.

[Xog]

sweet dude. thanks a shitload. you're like a god of some information .. thing. u know a lot about a lot.


about the partitioning: ubuntu can do it for you through the installation. i'm using my D:\ drive for ubuntu (since i've never put anything on it anyways), and C:\ for windows

as for the .iso, i feel stupid now :P.

things are getting a little annoying but once i somehow manage to get wine on there it should be a breeze. the problem getting wine on there is.. well, i can't connect to my router. i put in the passkey for it, and it just sits there in limbo saying Waiting on confirmation for passkey or something like that.. then it asks me for the passkey again.

i'm typing it in correctly 100%...no doubt about it.

i guess i'm just gonna get wine on my windows and turn it off and boot up on ubuntu and install it that way :P i was trying through Add/Remove, Wine's up there by default.. i guess it's a necessity