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Installed Ubuntu as complete linux novice

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  • #32
    John The Bad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭John The Bad


    An Fear Aniar wrote: »
    It's not so much about the price, it's the fact you're installing it on a machine that was designed to run another operating system (and using devices mostly designed to run with windows drivers).

    I agree. That is another, very important reason why you should be patient with Linux.


  • #33
    turgon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭turgon


    +1 to the patience.

    I personally was considering ditching Ubuntu after a failed install, but I kept at it and am reaping the rewards now. The OP had a very similar same experience.


  • #34
    bSlick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭bSlick


    Yep definitely pays to have patience. I'm won over now. One thing I really like is that lack of bloat, so that the OS loads up in no time, whereas with windows xp even on a fresh insall I would be waiting 4 times as long for it to load up. And the load up time only gets worse the longer you use it. That's alot of wasted time over the coarse of the year.

    The only issue for me is that although I got photoshop running with linux on wine doors, there were problems in that alot of the hotkeys weren't being picked up and it is too inefficient to run photoshop without them. So I'll still be using xp for photoshop work, although I want to learn some basic editing with the gimp so that I'll be able to do quick edits without loading xp.


  • #35
    MonkeyTennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    as a total newbie about to switch over, im worried about skype and webcam working ok.. any thoughts on this?

    I need it to talk to my daughter who lives abroad to its a must have


  • #36
    gillo_100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 135 ✭✭gillo_100


    Hey just thought I'd leave some of my experiences here also.

    About half a year ago I installed Ubuntu, but to be honest never got into it that much, also I didn't do a very good job of installing it, I never partitioned drive and it was just on same partition as XP and also for some reason GRUB didn't seem to be loaded on my computuer.

    Anyway after reading this thread decided to have a go of Mint.
    So got rid of Ubuntu ( wasn't really sure how to do this as all I could find on internet about removing it was reformat partition it was on, but as that was my only partition that option was out so I ended up just deleting it in Windows, probably not the best idea). Then I installed Mint this time partitioning drive. 50gig for /windows which also has various programs and other stuff. 10 for /, 4g of swap and 96 for /home. I also have a 1TB hd with films and music on it, just left that alone.

    All seemed to go fine except, when tried to boot XP got ntdlr missing, took a while to fix this ended up using XP disk and got it to repair. So now I can happily dual boot away.

    Some problems, can't get some stuff running in Wine, CS3 and Matlab are two main ones. I might be able to get away with Gimp. Also I know there are alternatives for Matlab but I'm used to it and won't be changing for a couple of months anyway so probably just boot XP when needed. Secondly I don't have access to the 1TB hd from windows anymore, it wants to format it. Any ideas? it was originally formatted as NTFS.


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  • #37
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    MonkeyTennis wrote: »
    as a total newbie about to switch over, im worried about skype and webcam working ok.. any thoughts on this?

    I need it to talk to my daughter who lives abroad to its a must have
    Skype is fine, I use it all the time. With hardware like webcams, easiest option is just to google the model name + Linux and you'll soon find out whether others have got it up and running or not :)


  • #38
    John The Bad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭John The Bad


    MonkeyTennis wrote: »
    as a total newbie about to switch over, im worried about skype and webcam working ok.. any thoughts on this?

    I need it to talk to my daughter who lives abroad to its a must have

    My advise, don't get rid of Windows straight away. Install Linux Mint as a dual boot (or better still, from within Windows -- I think you can do this with Mint). I have Skype working fine on my installation but I haven't gotten round to buying a webcam yet.


  • #39
    onzlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭onzlo


    if you really want to try linux you should try the wubi installer. it only adds a dual boot option and if you dont like it you can uninstall it from the control panel in windows, also this does not require any major patitioning it only reserves memory for it.

    hope this helps


  • #40
    An Fear Aniar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭An Fear Aniar


    gillo_100 wrote: »
    Some problems, can't get some stuff running in Wine, CS3 and Matlab are two main ones.

    For CS3, try installing it using PlayonLinux:

    http://www.playonlinux.com/en/

    It does all the winetricks and configuring for you.


  • #41
    turgon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭turgon


    bSlick wrote: »
    So I'll still be using xp for photoshop work, although I want to learn some basic editing with the gimp so that I'll be able to do quick edits without loading xp.

    Forgive me if this is totally ignorant, but could you achieve a lot of the Photoshop stuff in Inskcape?


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