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Mine looks really nice with the dark ice murrina theme,

Here's Mint 7 on my lappy.





For dual screen I use "Desktop Wall" in Compiz

And then there's that thing

I bind it to top left corner.

You could go crazy with the widgets.

Use gnome-Do

Or try KDE

Or add terminal on the desktop

EDIT: Some more inspiration

Last edited by max (2009-10-22 06:31:24)

untar
install any dependencies needed
done

Start an "[Official] Linux/Ubuntu thread" or use this one?

Anyway, Steam for Linux is out and seems to be working just fine so far.

pirana6 wrote:

Also, has anybody had success installing the new LibreOffice suite? I keep running into errors

nm I'm dumb

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice-core
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

tar -xvzf LibreOffice_4.0.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz

sudo dpkg -i *.deb (in both DEBS and desktop-integration)

edito: spelling

Last edited by pirana6 (2013-02-14 17:44:03)

yeah it was. turns out i didn't remove all the old ones enough/correctly so i kept running into errors.

I recently decided to upgrade the Ubuntu 10.04 installation my dad put on my mom's EEE 901 netbook all the way to 11.04 and it runs a lot better than it did, plus the Wifi doesn't fuck up anymore and become impossible to reconnect without a reboot after going into sleep mode.

Not sure about upgrading to 11.10 yet because I've heard it gets rid of Unity 2D in favor of Unity 3D with lesser requirements and I'm not sure which one it's running with already or if the shitty Intel GPU would be able to handle it very well.

Yeah, XP Tablet Edition ran like a nightmare on the EEE 901, mostly because of the small slow SSDs but still Ubuntu helped it out a lot and after the updates, it's even faster and more usable.  Linux is so nice and light and just perfect for earlier netbooks with their slow shitty Atoms and early SSDs, I thought it was stupid at first but I'm kind of glad my dad put it on now and it helps me familiarize with the platform more, last time I used Linux was probably Linspire when I was like 12 and then Redhat when I was 7, lol

How would I go about forcing the 2D version if 3D was giving me bad performance?  Also, is there any way I can get real GMA 950 drivers instead of these crappy plugin ones that won't even name the device?

Yeah, I guess I'll just have to try that then.  So far from what you're telling me and what I've read from all kinds of reviews, 12.10 doesn't really bring anything great if it doesn't in fact make some things worse but I'll just have to try it out, maybe inbetween upgrading to 13.04 when it comes out, I've read that it's supposed to reduce wasteful resource usage quite a bit with general memory usage optimizations and adjusting idling behaviors for some things in the background.

Also, I just updated Steam beta to the full version and then downloaded Half-Life 1 just to see what would happen and it plays the game perfectly stable with just a tiny bit of artifacting and a little bit of sluggishness but still much better than I expected.  It automatically detected the 1024x600 resolution and everything.  Amazing how well they've done in porting everything over for Linux

I have talked a bit of shit about the linux in the past, but for some reason ever few years I feel like I should give it another go.

I have always supported the fact that windows works fine. I still maintain that windows 8 is no where near as bad as people say... damn near windows 7 with stupid overbearing start menu...

Anyways, my computer's specs aren't as impressive as they used to be, and while I don't mind win 8 I no longer feel much loyalty to windows.
Reading about android made it time to try it again.


Went through a good number of distros, but finally settled on Mint 13 LTS with cinnamon. Really liking it.

Really helped that this time I read good bits of "The Linux Bible" which went a long way to help get settled.

I've found the most up to date release of linux break to fucking easily. If you don't mind an active role in keeping your computer running go for it... But as a newb still all of them ended up having nagging issues relatively soon.

This mint LTS has been REALLY stable. Could damn near give this to my mother. Nothing too crazy but a decent amount of customization... I hate the default green theme but with some tweaks it clean and simple. 

I don't play many games these days, so I find that I almost always load linux.... its just a little quicker in most situations. Really like the options, and how transparent the OS is. Lots of nice little things, right click a window title bar and chose always on top...

The more I read the more I like the idea and community as well. Nice that so many people can pull together selflessly for a common good like that. Particularly interesting that the origins of the OS can be traced back to message board postings.
Funny to see decades old posts from linus torvalds basically talking shit to people, such as when he was criticized and asked why GIT was't written in C++ when it was so clearly better, and he responds if for no other reason then to piss off people like the author of the question it was worth it.

But I guess, bottom line.... Its come a long fucking way.
If you have tried it and given up, or dismissed it entirely give it an honest try and do some reading on how it works and how to propperly set it up, rather then just copying and pasting some random command starting with "hashtag sudo something something" that wont make your printer work... Actually learn what a modprob is and how to modify your path, check logs and configure your .bashrc file...
Its like anything else, a lot of options can mean easy to break, but if you learn what your doing its a pretty nice environment to be in.
Fuck that was long, even if no one read it...still Guinness.

Last edited by VicktorVauhn (2014-01-13 00:31:37)

A colleague at work has kicked Windows 8 off of his Ultrabook and installed Linux Mint as well, after briefly trying Kubuntu.
Now he's running Steam and playing Games with it.

globefish23 wrote:

A colleague at work has kicked Windows 8 off of his Ultrabook and installed Linux Mint as well, after briefly trying Kubuntu.
Now he's running Steam and playing Games with it.

my gaming pc at home is dual boot - 7 and ubuntu - and i've been running steam for some time on linux. it's pretty stable and straightforward atm, runs dota 2 and team fortress just fine for me. still, it seems very few devs - even less publishers - are willing to take their games to linux.

all in all, steam os and stuff, it's gonna be interesting to see where valve & co are capable to take this. imo, now, microsoft being even worse fucking dicks than they usually are, is a perfect moment to be taking a piece of their pie.