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Yoshi
02-28-2011, 07:42 PM
I just installed and kinda digging it. Anyone else use it before? Any links for themes wallpapers etc??? I want to test it's limit's and break some things. :)
shifty
02-28-2011, 08:46 PM
That's its and not it's.

Been using it since 6.x, and loving it.
Yoshi
02-28-2011, 09:24 PM
oh snap grammar police, woot woot..pull over, pull over... ;)

I installed it on an old laptop, Averatec 6100H, but after it gets a little warm the keyboard and touchpad lock up....Uggghh...well it was fun while it lasted..
shifty
02-28-2011, 10:09 PM
Dude, out of all the distros out there, Ubuntu is where it's at.

If I were going to pick one user-friendly-est distro, Ubuntu is it. It's the one distro I would slap on a laptop and give to my parents with some tweaking, and leave thinking they'd actually be able to get along and make do with it.

I'm dual booted with 10.10 on most of my systems, work and home alike. Very easy to use.
Yoshi
03-01-2011, 12:03 AM
Have you tried ubuntu netbook or do you just use desktop? I have a little Dell netbook with small screen and debating if I want to dual boot with the netbook version...
Ninjahedge
03-01-2011, 07:54 AM
I tried DBing with Ubuntu a few years ago and for some strange reason Windows did not like it. Ubuntu would boot fine, but windows would just make faces.

After that I tried to reformat and install just windows, and that was weird too. the half a drive that I partitioned for Ubuntu refused to be reformatted (no good reason why not). So I gave up (since I really did not need that 125G anyway with the RAID5 I just put up).

I thought it was OK way back when, but some proggies were not made with the same user base in mind. The biggest little problem was the multimedia players. They played everything fine, but not being able to simply open up a string of files and have them play one after another w/o a playlist was a PITA.

All this may have changed since I last tried. The glory of user based software development.

And you can't beat the price.
shifty
03-01-2011, 12:23 PM
It has changed. When you tried, they were on 7.x as I believe and I think you installed Kubuntu rather than Ubuntu. They're up to release 10.x now.
Ninjahedge
03-01-2011, 02:33 PM
All this may have changed since I last tried. The glory of user based software development.

And you can't beat the price.

It has changed. When you tried, they were on 7.x as I believe and I think you installed Kubuntu rather than Ubuntu. They're up to release 10.x now.

;)



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