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Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by rizalp »

Pxtl wrote: post #16

All Linux distros should be free charities and their developers should eat catfood and ramen.

It's funny how the history repeat itself when the company that support certain disro want to monetize it. A long time ago, it's Redhat. Then, SUSE with their licensing deal with Microsoft. Anyone knows what happens to Xandros and Mandriva?

I think Canonical should be more honest that they need money. People would gladly pay for stable OS that is supported long enough. I think the combination of Stable OS, lots of Apps that is close to the current upstream relase, and good hardware support is the winning formula here..

My dream is that I want Ubuntu to be essentially the equivalent of OSX, but I can install it on as many hardware configuration as possible, not just Mac

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by epsylon »

applecore wrote: post #36

If you're looking for a simpler OS, you should try Xubuntu: http://xubuntu.org/

If you're already an Ubuntu user, you can just sudo apt-get install xfce and sudo apt-get remove unity*.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by nisa »

sandGorgon wrote: post #60
nisa wrote: post #29

My personal fix Ubuntu: Be careful, this is pretty rude and may break stuff - it is also not complete but some dependencies are too entangled. Only geoclue and indicator-datetime still annoy me. The idea to poll the internet regulary to check for the timezone of the machine is beyond me. apt-get purge ubuntuone* # I don't use it apt-get purge unity-lens-music unity-lens-video unity-lens-photos # I don't need the inte…

here's mine - http://www.lambdacurry.com/super-fast-lean-ubuntu-setup/ It removes Unity and switches to gnome-shell, removes nautilus and other stuff and replaces it with nemo, geany, etc. I do have some additional tweaks to improve wifi, etc. but the base install brings my RSS with firefox (I consider that a minimum) to about 500 mb on 12.04

I'm actually quite happy with Ubuntu and Unity. There are some annoying bugs and I've switched to KDE recently but Unity is overall fine in my opinion. I'd always take Unity over Gnome. But well let's not start this discussion. To each his own.. I just don't like all the Canonical addons I don't use. So I remove them.

Regarding swap compression:

I'm happy with zcache¹. zramswap is out of date and buggy for me (I'm not exactly sure here). There is also zswap². I'm running Linux 3.11

To enable zcache edit /etc/default/grub and add zcache to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT

To enable zswap add zswap.enable=1

Both can't be running at the same time.

1: http://lwn.net/Articles/397574/

2: http://lwn.net/Articles/528817/

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by nhenezi »

harel wrote: post #19

As a Gnome user all this Unity madness just went over my head - I never had to deal with it. But there are things that keep breaking from one release to the other (for which I blame myself for having twitchy update-trigger fingers). But as a whole I'm a happy user in particular that now Steam is on Linux. My question is - how does Steam work on the Ubuntu derivatives like Xubuntu and Mint? Will it work on Debian?

Steam is in Jessie repository: http://packages.debian.org/jessie/steam

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by sp332 »

tsaoutourpants wrote: post #55
rlpb wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "And our use of the trademarked term Ubuntu is plainly descriptive—it helps the public find this site and understand its message." I disagree. askubuntu.com already exists and is officially sanctioned. From domain name alone, I think it's reasonable to assume that users will believe that fixubuntu.com is also officially sanctioned. Traffic generated by users being misled into going there is not legitimate in terms…

Why would Canonical put up a Web site about how to fix their own product, rather than just fix it? This guys use of their mark clearly falls under the nominal use exception of fair use.

Right, that would be "nominative fair use" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use_%28U.S._trademark_law... which applies to trademarks, not the copyright version of fair use.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by drill_sarge »

username42 wrote: post #66
drill_sarge wrote: post #53

People use default Ubuntu with Unity? From what I see, most people use a variant (X/L/K) of it and those are really well put together without (most) of the Canonical crap.

I like very much ubuntu-gnome. They need some help http://ubuntugnome.org/

I tried it with, I think, 13.04 and you could see they need people testing it. For a raw Gnome distro Fedora is the better choice.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by mikegirouard »

Datsundere wrote: post #42
Supermighty wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love Debian. But I wish they had a stable version released more often.

When was the last time you used Debian? I'm using arch (rolling distro) as my main OS. I do EVERYTHING on it.

I've gotten a lot of mileage out of Arch too, though I won't use it on a server anymore.

The rolling release schedule is too much for me to manage there.. but for my daily-driven workstation, I find it to be a fantastic OS.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by rizalp »

sandGorgon wrote: post #68
Pxtl wrote: post #16

All Linux distros should be free charities and their developers should eat catfood and ramen.

No - I'm actually willing to pay for a good fast, stable linux with multimonitor support (that doesnt suck), has excellent suspend/hibernate/resume behavior and has very good compatibility with multimedia (TV HDMI, etc.) I'm in India - and I cannot afford a Mac (and maybe dont want to). Build this system on top of SteamOS or Android or something (for hardware compatibility) and you will get my money.

Exactly. I live in Indonesia, and the price of Apple product here is ridiculously expensive. I want Ubuntu to be the equivalent of OSX, but can support as many hardware configuration as possible
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