Comments on: Things which I’ve learned while using Ubuntu!

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:00:38 +0000

[...] of months back I’d shared 30 things which I’d learned while using Ubuntu and told that I’ll share my thoughts after using Mac too , I’m yet to get my hands on [...]

By: Shankar Ganesh

Shankar Ganesh — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:10:22 +0000

Nice thoughts.

According to me,
The best thing about Ubuntu (or Linux in general):

Easy updating and installation (especially with apt get in Ubuntu)
and the ‘Open-ness’. Being open source, I can get around and poke into things, configurations, code and a lot more.

And then when you mess up with something, it doesn’t go well either. For instance, I messed up with xorg.conf file once and had several problems.

I solved it myself, and in the process I _learnt_ a lot of new things. Vi, and other editors and a few commands. Didn’t master them yet. Well, atleast I learnt something new. That’s the best part. You have something to learn new everyday. It’s lots of fun as well. :)

By: ReviewSaurus

ReviewSaurus — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:00:09 +0000

@ Dave : Thanks a lot for the appreciation. I’m glad that you liked the post. I’ll keep on writing the honest opinions and that’s what reviewsaurus is all about :)

By: Dave Field

Dave Field — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:43:09 +0000

Well put together list, pros and cons, obviously you have actually used the software, and are basing your opinons on this.

I like the fact that these are your thoughts, and you’re not telling anyoe what to think

Stick with it, enjoy it, you’re just what the community needs.. Honest real working opinions.

By: ReviewSaurus

ReviewSaurus — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:17:42 +0000

@ Dan : Well, Glxgears works (as we discussed when I’d mentioned about all that in earlier post)

I’ll check the graphics driver (which shows up), I don’t remember exactly (right now I’m in windows)….but I remember changing things in xorg.conf but it didn’t make any difference. I’ll check again this time

@ lefty.crupps : I kinda knew that this is going to happen, but everyone has perspectives and you think KDE is cool so, I’m fine with that…I just don’t take it too personal :)

By: Dan Kegel

Dan Kegel — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:55:25 +0000

I see I gave the same answer in your earlier post:
http://www.reviewsaurus.com/software-reviews/done-with-kubuntu-wont-think-of-using-it-anymore/

So glxgears is working, good. But you didn’t mention
what graphics driver you’re using.
What kind of graphics card do you have?

Try switching to vesa or nv in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if the crashes go away…

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:48:45 +0000

>Gnome is better than KDE

I stopped reading the list at that point.

By: Dan Kegel

Dan Kegel — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:38:14 +0000

Ah, that’s not a Wine bug, that’s probably a linux driver problem.
Check your graphics driver. The most frequent cause of hangs
is a silent kernel update on a system that had an nvidia proprietary
driver installed. Since nvidia drivers are kernel-version-specific,
the updated kernel is incompatible -> boom! when running wine
or opengl apps. Does glxgears work, btw?

By: ReviewSaurus

ReviewSaurus — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:19:50 +0000

Hey Dan! The problem which I was having was that the computer froze as soon as I did anything with Wine. Be it opening up the options/prefrences or be it running an application (like notepad) with wine.

By: Dan Kegel

Dan Kegel — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:49:14 +0000

What problems were you having with Wine?