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Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by pavanky »

etfb wrote: post #68

Well, that was fun. The upgrade crashed halfway through. I rebooted in recovery mode, finished the upgrade using the dpkg repair option, and then restarted a few times and found that it still wasn't working. Looked like a video problem, so I checked /etc/X11 and found the xorg.conf files had been backed up and not replaced. A comment in the last one inspired me to run nvidia-xconfig and it worked fine. Pretty typical…

Did you install the nvidia drivers using a binary or from the repositories ? If you have installed drivers using a binary installer, it is pretty much a given that you will break things during upgrade. This is because the system has no idea that you installed software from outside its repository.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by wolf550e »

etfb wrote: post #69
Zardoz84 wrote: post #46

I really recommend trying out the Ubuntu KDE flavour (KUbuntu). I really like it as being more usable and configurable than Unity and Gnome.

I was on Kubuntu when it shifted from 3.5 to 4.0. Gods, what a mess that was! I presume it's had time to settle down now; is it back to being as reliable as 3.5 was? Or do people with long memories still have to grit their teeth at all the missing features?

KDE 4.0 was released on January 2008. KDE has improved since then.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by onli »

leaveyou wrote: post #30
onli wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't need to wipe anything. Just install ubuntu-gnome-desktop and select gnome 3 on login.

I tried that some time ago with 13.10 & xface-desktop and I ended up with some weird mix of the two (randomly some parts from unity and some fonts and menus + shutdwon splash screen definitely from xface). And I was not able to totally remove the xface packages from unity again. So I'm quite reluctant now :).

Granted, that concern is valid. Just let me note that it is normally not that difficult to reconfigure unity to use its own designs everywhere, but I think as well that it is not particularly nice that this is necessary.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by dfa0 »

etfb wrote: post #68

Well, that was fun. The upgrade crashed halfway through. I rebooted in recovery mode, finished the upgrade using the dpkg repair option, and then restarted a few times and found that it still wasn't working. Looked like a video problem, so I checked /etc/X11 and found the xorg.conf files had been backed up and not replaced. A comment in the last one inspired me to run nvidia-xconfig and it worked fine. Pretty typical…

I know upgrades are supposed to work, but they almost never go 100% percent right.

Use dpkg/synaptic to backup your installed packages and backup your /home...then commit to the time to going fresh install. If you use LTS releases, you'll only be doing it at most every other year.

IMHO, it is worth the time.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by aruggirello »

stesch wrote: post #82
danford wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh.. I think it's only more usable if you're coming from and are used to a traditional desktop like Windows. If you were introducing someone to a computer for the first time, GNOME 3 is by far the most simple and easiest to use desktop on the market right now. Yes even more usable than windows 8 for someone who has never used an OS before. As for configurability KDE has quite a few more years under it's belt, so it's…

The first GUI I used was Intuition (AmigaOS). What would you recommend?

Unity, definitely. Having window menus appear / disappear right in the top bar, much like the beloved, glorious Amiga did in the golden days of computing :) makes it probably the closest you can get - that is, without turning on your old Amiga or installing AROS :) I don't use Unity though - KDE suits my taste better. But that's the beauty of Linux, you get to choose whatever desktop you prefer.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by dfa0 »

pan69 wrote: post #7

I just took XUbuntu for a spin. It's just as great as the 13.10 release. If you're a GNOME refugee and looking for an excellent desktop then I can't recommend XUbuntu enough.

Xubuntu is the simpliest,light-weight choice that still has a lot of functionality available if you want to turn it on.

I am grateful for this choice.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by HNaTTY »

leaveyou wrote: post #28
shacharz wrote: post #23

Why is the download so slow? Why not add a torrent link?

Ubuntu is more popular than you would think :). I used torrents to download it and it went quite fast (huge numbers of seeders). Here you can find torrent links: reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/239wbp/1404_is_live/

I was able to basically saturate my connection downloading the torrent, 10.3mb/s. 10 hours later I'm still at a ratio of 0.038. Kind of surprising how many folks are seeding.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by manish_gill »

Meh, after struggling with linux for years, I finally swallowed my pride and paid a hefty price for a Macbook Air.

Best decision I ever made. OS X hasn't disappointed me yet. I don't have to worry about driver/sound problems or incompatible libraries every other week.

Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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Post by RankingMember »

manish_gill wrote: post #99

Meh, after struggling with linux for years , I finally swallowed my pride and paid a hefty price for a Macbook Air. Best decision I ever made. OS X hasn't disappointed me yet. I don't have to worry about driver/sound problems or incompatible libraries every other week.

This has been my experience with Linux as well. Not to mention every upgrade of Ubuntu seems to try some wacky new interface paradigm that makes it harder or just plain weird to use.
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