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[Sebastian]

im so glad i familiarised myself with linux about 6 years ago. all thanks to one of my teachers and the technicians at school. sadly he committed suicide

Hahah, sorry but i totally didnt see this coming when reading your post.

 

[Flipmo]

i take it that's your linux desktop now casey.

im so glad i familiarised myself with linux about 6 years ago. all thanks to one of my teachers and the technicians at school. sadly he committed suicide. he endorsed open source and firefox > i.e. etc, got the school to send open source software cd's from the ict department to every student's house for free. i know for sure he would have an android phone now and perhaps he'd have done a few projects on android.

I know I shouldn't laugh, but that was so random, that I did.

It's like Linux killed him.

Sorry lol...

 

[Casey]

You're nerding up the topic!

Casey, what was that previous one? I love android phones?

yeah lol

 

[Casey]

Updated to the release candidate of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, switched to the "Faenza" Dark Theme and Icon Set (check the consistency in the Dock ftw), and now using the brand new default Ubuntu font, which I've also installed as a Chrome extension so that all text in Chrome renders using the new font too.

 

[Rahim]

 

[Casey]

Yahoo IM? Winamp? Firefox? It's not 2005, dude. Get yourself Chrome browser, Gtalk, Skype, and VLC player.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Lol Rahim, i ahd theat theme a month ago. Ive changed it to an Italian one, now currently on a Spanish one. It has several backgrounds which change every so often.

Casey, nice Ubuntu theme. One thing i love about Linux/Ubuntu is that they consume less CPU resources so would be ideal for low-spec machines. Yours is quite high-end, so performance must be pretty much flawless on it.

 

[Casey]

Yep...it flies

 

[Pittsey]

All I have on my desktop is an AMD Dual core 3ghz cpu with 2gb of ram. I use windows 7 and have it booting in less than 15 seconds. Now that is impressive.

All I use it for is browsing and downloading....

 

[vg4030]

Casey:
If you use Ubuntu do you have to reconfigure everything to their inbuilt email/wireless etc... programs?

 

[Casey]

Casey:
If you use Ubuntu do you have to reconfigure everything to their inbuilt email/wireless etc... programs?

I don't use the Email client that comes with Ubuntu. I use Gmail. However, if you use a client like Thunderbird it's easy to just import the data, and Thunderbird can be easily integrated with the system menu's etc.

Wireless just worked for me without having to reconfigure anything. But I suppose that depends on your hardware. Worst case scenario is you'd just have to find a driver online for your wireless card.

 

[vg4030]

I don't use the Email client that comes with Ubuntu. I use Gmail. However, if you use a client like Thunderbird it's easy to just import the data, and Thunderbird can be easily integrated with the system menu's etc.

Wireless just worked for me without having to reconfigure anything. But I suppose that depends on your hardware. Worst case scenario is you'd just have to find a driver online for your wireless card.

Hmm. Thanks. I like the O/S and have played about on it for while but Im not sure if I can be bothered reinstalling everything! Or do I not need to? Like word etc... do I need to use the built in word processing software or will i have access to all of my existing installed applications?

 

[Casey]

Hmm. Thanks. I like the O/S and have played about on it for while but Im not sure if I can be bothered reinstalling everything! Or do I not need to? Like word etc... do I need to use the built in word processing software or will i have access to all of my existing installed applications?

You can access your Windows partition and some Windows apps will work if you install WINE. But the software that comes with the OS is good enough for most things, I find. I haven't had any problems, and I switched after using Win 7 on the same laptop for 6 months or so. It really depends on how many programs are essential to you. For me, it's just Chrome Browser, VLC Player, Skype, GTalk, Picasa, Filezilla FTP and Dropbox.

Most of what I do is in the browser as I use Google Docs as my primary office suite, Seesmic Web for Twitter etc.....and I have about 10 Chrome extensions installed for various things.

I'd say try it out but keep your Windows install so you can dualboot....that's what I've done. For the first couple months, I switched back and forth while I got used to Linux..... but at this point I haven't booted my Windows partition in over 2 months.

 

[masta247]

Unless you're a gamer you can do everything on Linux. There's free Open Office instead of MS Office and there's everything there. To be honest I find MS Office to be better to use though but functionality-wise - same.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

indeed.

 

[vg4030]

^^ Thanks Sandeep. Repped

 

[vg4030]

Unless you're a gamer you can do everything on Linux. There's free Open Office instead of MS Office and there's everything there. To be honest I find MS Office to be better to use though but functionality-wise - same.

You can access your Windows partition and some Windows apps will work if you install WINE. But the software that comes with the OS is good enough for most things, I find. I haven't had any problems, and I switched after using Win 7 on the same laptop for 6 months or so. It really depends on how many programs are essential to you. For me, it's just Chrome Browser, VLC Player, Skype, GTalk, Picasa, Filezilla FTP and Dropbox.

Most of what I do is in the browser as I use Google Docs as my primary office suite, Seesmic Web for Twitter etc.....and I have about 10 Chrome extensions installed for various things.

I'd say try it out but keep your Windows install so you can dualboot....that's what I've done. For the first couple months, I switched back and forth while I got used to Linux..... but at this point I haven't booted my Windows partition in over 2 months.

Thanks alot, Ill definitely try the partition. The transfer of documents etc seems a bit of a pain but Ill check it out

 

[Pittsey]

Fuck that.

I won't use linux. Had it on a netbook once. First thing I did (when I could be arsed) was stick on a slimline version of XP.

 

[Casey]

Fuck that.

I won't use linux. Had it on a netbook once. First thing I did (when I could be arsed) was stick on a slimline version of XP.

What kind of linux did you have? And it was probably a stripped down version aimed at netbooks, which is a whole different bag. Ubuntu 10.10 desktop edition is an incredible OS...it has come along leaps and bounds even in just the past 6 months since 10.04 when I first started using it.

 

[vg4030]

Ubuntu have a netbook version too right?