Has anyone tried Ubuntu 10.04 yet? How is it coming along?

Rofl Lundgren · 30-04-2010 04:56PM

Khannie wrote: »

Yeah, that's the case alright. I had that support in 9.10 though and when I upgraded to 10.04 I no longer had MP3 support in Amarok despite still having the restricted extras package installed.

I noticed the same when I upgraded to the 10.04 release candidate. Rhythmbox did recommend I install ffmpeg through a dialog box though. Amarok not doing the same does seem a little frustrating.

civis_liberalis · 01-05-2010 02:12AM

Khannie wrote: »

ubuntuguide.org is very useful. You ever used linux before?

Cheers. Nope, never.

I get the feeling that there is a load of basic stuff I don't really understand at all. Not stuff that I can't figure out, just things I wouldn't know to do in the first place.

Dartz · 01-05-2010 02:32AM

civis_liberalis wrote: »

Cheers. Nope, never.

I get the feeling that there is a load of basic stuff I don't really understand at all. Not stuff that I can't figure out, just things I wouldn't know to do in the first place.

Just remember that it's *not* Windows.... don't expect it to behave like anything from Redmond.

Don't be surprised to learn that it does things differently. Not necessarily better or worse, just different. Remember that, remember how to google if you have a problem, and you'll be fine.

Good luck.

Jonathan · 01-05-2010 02:45AM

Whats with the MacOSXish placement of the window control buttons??

Thomas-G · 01-05-2010 02:50AM

civis_liberalis wrote: »

Did a clean install on top of Vista.

Didn't run into any problems. Only thing that confused me was when I was downloading flash. It gave me different options and I didn't know which one. Got it in the end.

Any ideas on guides for complete novices?

Stuff I should know coming from a 100% Windows background, that sort of thing.

http://ubuntu-manual.org/ is new and fantastic, while I've been using ubuntu a long time I gave some sections a quick read and found them great for new users

Thomas-G · 01-05-2010 02:54AM

Jonathan wrote: »

Whats with the MacOSXish placement of the window control buttons??

Everyone is far too heated on this subject :P I said I'd try it out and within a fe hours I was used to it

According to Canonical, it's to "foster innovation for the right side of the title bar", which sounds silly, but just a few days afterwards plenty of ideas and mockups of workspace management buttons and an odd motion-controlled ball emerged. I think they look neater on the left in any case.

MrVestek · 01-05-2010 11:13AM

It does seem to fit in with the UI alot more and they're not the first distrobution to do this either.

evercloserunion · 01-05-2010 07:57PM

Tried to torrent it, 7 days 8 hours :pac: I'll probably download it in college to install on my laptop.

I am moving from KDE over to Gnome, mainly just for a change but also because KNetworkManager does not allow me to connect to my college network. Hopefully as I will be installing from live CD I will avoid problems with installation which often result from upgrading.

From the look of it, seems like it's moving towards Mac OSX in terms of cosmetics. I don't really like Macs but thankfully Gnome is highly customisable so that shouldn't be a problem.

As I have never really used Gnome for any prolonged period of time, any other big differences from KDE that I should be aware of? I'll miss Kate but I hear gedit is okay.

Redisle · 01-05-2010 10:08PM

Really liking this. Installed yesterday making my laptop a triple boot (7/OSX/Ubuntu) system but I think this will be the only one getting used for the forseeable future. Ive dabbled with Ubuntu a few times before but this one is certainly a massive improvement. Everything worked out of the box, once I downloaded the restricted drivers that is.
Seems to be working very well with samba shares, auto mounting shares to desktop and handy bookmarks in Places menu. Maybe this was the same in 9.10 but it feels very polished here.

After a few tweaks (Installed Docky and set bottom panel to autohide, and replaced the Music/Pictures etc folders with symlinks to shared data partition) it seems to be going just fine.

I also had to disable ipv6 because my browsing was painfully slow. From reading online I get the impression that older routers just ignore ipv6 requests and ipv6 is the default in Ubuntu and Firefox, it was actually taking a good 30 secs before pages started loading, after disabling ipv6 it's as fast as my windows installation.

Rofl Lundgren wrote: »

I noticed the same when I upgraded to the 10.04 release candidate. Rhythmbox did recommend I install ffmpeg through a dialog box though. Amarok not doing the same does seem a little frustrating.

I had the same problem, Amarok didn't play mp3's even after the restricted extras (Rhythmbox did). I seem to remember in a previous release that Amarok used to prompt to install the correct package but not this time, i had to manually install ffmpeg (after spending some time googling for the right package!)

Khannie · 02-05-2010 12:03AM

civis_liberalis wrote: »

Cheers. Nope, never.

I get the feeling that there is a load of basic stuff I don't really understand at all. Not stuff that I can't figure out, just things I wouldn't know to do in the first place.

That is almost certainly the case. It's worth being up front about this: Switching to linux does require some reading. There's a learning curve, but once you're on the far side of that learning curve there is no going back. I mean, you really actually would have to pay me quite a chunk of cash to use windows now. Quite a chunk.

Khannie · 02-05-2010 12:06AM

Jonathan wrote: »

Whats with the MacOSXish placement of the window control buttons??

Gave it a bash. Found it weird and switched back. I'm too old for that kind of malarky.

civis_liberalis · 02-05-2010 01:45AM

Redisle wrote: »

I also had to disable ipv6 because my browsing was painfully slow. From reading online I get the impression that older routers just ignore ipv6 requests and ipv6 is the default in Ubuntu and Firefox, it was actually taking a good 30 secs before pages started loading, after disabling ipv6 it's as fast as my windows installation.

I'll have to look that up. Didn't even know where to begin troubleshooting that problem. At least I know where to start looking now. :rolleyes:

I'm running Ubuntu on a machine that Vista was choking the life out of. It seems to run quieter and doesn't heat up as much.

loldog · 02-05-2010 03:29AM

civis_liberalis wrote: »

I'll have to look that up.

It's Tip 4 here: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/speed-up-firefox-web-browser.html

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pljudge321 · 02-05-2010 09:01AM

For any new people who don't like the layout of the window controls heres how to fix it.

Press Alt+F2

Type gconf-editor and hit enter.

Go to apps -> metacity -> general

In the button_layout option double click on the value part, delete whatever is written there and then paste the following in its place.

menu:minimize,maximize,close

Close and your done.

DeepBlue · 02-05-2010 11:34AM

Is there a recommended length of time to wait before upgrading to a new release?
Presumably there will be some new bugs found shortly afterwards that will get fixed so should one wait a week, a month or how long?

loldog · 02-05-2010 04:18PM

DeepBlue wrote: »

Is there a recommended length of time to wait before upgrading to a new release?
Presumably there will be some new bugs found shortly afterwards that will get fixed so should one wait a week, a month or how long?

I installed the pre-release Beta and haven't had any problems at all, it really all depends on your hardware. However, there's been people reporting problems with the Grub bootloader and wireless, so I would say wait a month for some of the bugs to be ironed out. What usually happens after a new release is that there's a whole heap of updates after users start "testing" it. Most things get fixed pretty quickly.

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EKRIUQ · 02-05-2010 06:46PM

Installed 10.0 on my laptop and desktop and must say I'm impressed so far, I used to use Hardy Heron version but it was full of problems. This version seems to be working fine so far. I installed both by wubi and worked flawlessly. Didn't like the buttons so switched to a vista theme buttons/sidebar and it's much better. Compiz has no problems and the Nvidia drivers seem to be well supported this time.

Haven't installed many programmes yet but Google earth was no problem, the thing that's annoying is the way the browsers mess up the fonts on the pages I nearly need a magnifying glass on some pages. I've tried to change things on firefox and Chrome but it's still not right. The video player and sounds seems great and a lot plugins seem to be working fine too.

loldog · 02-05-2010 11:10PM

EKRIUQ wrote: »

the thing that's annoying is the way the browsers mess up the fonts on the pages I nearly need a magnifying glass on some pages. I've tried to change things on firefox and Chrome but it's still not right.

You probably need to install msttcorefonts. Install the package ubuntu-restricted-extras, you'll find it in Synaptics. This includes the fonts you need plus some multimedia stuff you need.

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pickarooney · 02-05-2010 11:30PM

Chrome will still look ****ehouse on linux though, no matter what you do with your fonts outside of it.

When is the next Mint release scheduled? I might give that a whirl instead of Lucid.

Mycroft H · 03-05-2010 10:56AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Chrome will still look ****ehouse on linux though, no matter what you do with your fonts outside of it.

When is the next Mint release scheduled? I might give that a whirl instead of Lucid.

I think the RC is due near the end of May.... Apparently its undergoing final internal testing now..

BopNiblets · 03-05-2010 12:27PM

It's looking good too:

http://www.linuxmint.com/blog

Diarmuid · 03-05-2010 07:43PM

Just a quick note to say I upgraded my 8.04LTS server to 10.04 with zero problems this afternoon.

Khannie · 04-05-2010 11:03AM

Diarmuid wrote: »

Just a quick note to say I upgraded my 8.04LTS server to 10.04 with zero problems this afternoon.

Nice one. Good to know. I've just kicked mine off (then read your post). 2075 packages to download.......*snore*

mach1982 · 04-05-2010 01:01PM

I've upgraded my EEEPC 1000 to 10.4 over weekend and I installed Xubuntu as a VM no problems so far.

Khannie · 04-05-2010 03:07PM

Problems I had with my upgrade:

Would not boot. Wrong UUID for the root partition in grub. A bit of vi sorted that.
Janitor removed libgcc. This completely arsed me though I should have checked the list of things it was removing harder. I had access to another 64bit 10.04 system by ssh and scp'd the relevant library across.
Firefox completely arseways. Renamed .mozilla folder and it seems ok. Will try to sort that out later.

I'm glad I know my way around linux for sure. Most people would have been fairly screwed by the first problem.

Khannie · 04-05-2010 03:24PM

Update: Firefox issue sorted by removing one of my add ons (switchproxy).

Another update: /dev/md2 was missing and required some fluting to restore.

Overall, quite a few things wrong with the upgrade to this system. It's been in daily use for several years now though.

Mycroft H · 04-05-2010 08:17PM

Khannie wrote: »

Update: Firefox issue sorted by removing one of my add ons (switchproxy).

Another update: /dev/md2 was missing and required some fluting to restore.

Overall, quite a few things wrong with the upgrade to this system. It's been in daily use for several years now though.

Might had been easier to back up and do a clean install

Stuxnet · 04-05-2010 11:06PM

came across this if anyone's interested, a few known lynx issues with simple enough workarounds,
for me the purple boot screen, is way out of res whack,
fixed with a quick hack from here

How to Fix the Big and Ugly Plymouth Logo in Ubuntu 10.04 + others
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/known-ubuntu-10-04lucid-lynx-issuesbugs-with-workarounds.html

[-0-] · 05-05-2010 10:46AM

I upgraded from 8.04 to 10.04 and it broke due to issues with a flashplayer plugin. See here for details (and a fix). https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/429841

I hope this helps someone because it was wrecking my head!

pickarooney · 05-05-2010 12:51PM

I still keep reading 'lynx' as the non-GUI web browser of the same name. A poor choice of distro name; llama was crying out for a bit of recycling.

Has anyone tried Ubuntu 10.04 yet? How is it coming along?

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