I have one question, I have a personal laptop, its a Lenovo T60, my mother got it for me since she used to be sub contracting for them. I have decided to install Linux on it. I have started installing Ubuntu 10.04, and I would like to know if I should have it erase everything on Windows and start from scratch, or just keep a partition. My laptop has a fingerprint scanner and I want to know whether I can use it to the fullest with Ubuntu. Since this laptop is fairly new(less than 1 year old, got it for B-Day), there are barely any programs on it, all I have is M$ Office, a few AV programs, and a game or 2. So should I just dump XP completely, or just partition it?
[editline]05:37PM[/editline]
Ok since no one is deciding to answer after half an hour I am going to delete Windows completely.
If it is not your primary computer I recommend you to go all out Linux. By doing that you force yourself to use Linux. I did that on my laptop a few years back when I started playing with Linux and it sure motivated me a lot and I learned so much that it felt like my head was about to burst.
Yeah, its not my primary, but ever since I got Linux on this thing, I am much happier, can you recommend and programs that I should get?
What are the system's specs?
How exactly do I find that? The layout of Linux is much different than what I am used to.
open up two terminals, type [b]top[/b] in one, and [b]lspci | grep VGA[/b] in the other. Post a screenshot
note there are easier ways to do it, but those are the only ones that work on every system without having to download anything.
[url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/specs[/url]
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;21765203]open up two terminals, type [B]top[/B] in one, and [B]lspci | grep VGA[/B] in the other. Post a screenshot
note there are easier ways to do it, but those are the only ones that work on every system without having to download anything.[/QUOTE]
cat /proc/cpuinfo?
Is anyone gonna tell me my specs?
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;21765774]cat /proc/cpuinfo?[/QUOTE]
that works too, except doesn't show amount of RAM or installed video card.
[b](lspci && echo "" && cat /proc/cpuinfo && echo "" && cat /proc/meminfo) > specs.txt[/b]
Put that in a terminal then send us your specs.txt in your home folder.
[url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/specs.txt[/url]
There ya go.
[QUOTE=xxncxx;21777939][url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/specs.txt[/url]
There ya go.[/QUOTE]
Mobility Radeon X1300
Intel Dual Core @ 1.83GHz
1.5GB Ram
That'll run ubuntu just fine. I would use only linux, you can always go back to windows.
Thats not what I am asking, I already installed Linux, I want someone to recommend me some programs.
[QUOTE=xxncxx;21780048]Thats not what I am asking, I already installed Linux, I want someone to recommend me some programs.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=xxncxx;21765796]Is anyone gonna tell me my specs?[/QUOTE]
:crossarms:
Well, what do you want to do with your computer?
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;21780723]:crossarms:[/QUOTE]
I am waiting for someone to recommend me programs, then someone asked for specs, so I posted, and no one replied. Now someone recommend me something, its not like I just randomly download something. I use my computer mainly for school work, some little games here and there.
Chromium, QEMU, GCC, NASM, gEdit, mono. I use them often when I boot into Linux.
There's your recommendations
[QUOTE=xxncxx;21790500]I am waiting for someone to recommend me programs, then someone asked for specs, so I posted, and no one replied. Now someone recommend me something, its not like I just randomly download something. I use my computer mainly for school work, some little games here and there.[/QUOTE]
Some games to look into are Sauerbraten, Nexuiz, vDrift, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and Tremulous.
I want to say that MS Office 2007 works perfectly in Wine out of the box.
[QUOTE=Lego399;21792433]I want to say that MS Office 2007 works perfectly in Wine out of the box.[/QUOTE]
...except that it doesn't. Every time I tried using MS Office 2007 in WINE, it always crashes when opening the programs. It installs fine, but opening Word never works.
I'm on Mint 8 with WINE 1.2 (latest)
It works perfectly for me using 1.1.43
[QUOTE=Lego399;21797854]It works perfectly for me using 1.1.43[/QUOTE]
I'll try it again with Linux Mint 9 when it comes out, since i always do a fresh install. Maybe that will help.
I'd use Chrome/Chromium for the internet browser. Also, if you ever want to use one of those system monitors integrated into the desktop that you see in the desktop threads, use Conky. It's a bitch to set up, but it's so worth it once you're done.
[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;21798330]I'll try it again with Linux Mint 9 when it comes out, since i always do a fresh install. Maybe that will help.[/QUOTE]
Wine is never the same on a PC, even with the same specs, OS and version there are going to be differences.
[QUOTE=turb_;21791593]Chromium, QEMU, GCC, NASM, gEdit, mono. I use them often when I boot into Linux.
There's your recommendations[/QUOTE]
How do I install those, every time I download something its a tar.gz. Its like they expect me to know C++ programming and Open Source like its easy. Can someone help me here.
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Screw it, I won't download shit, I got this to get away from the shitty Windows and the crap Mac OSX and this is what I get, a programming class for every fucking download. BULLSHIT. I changed to make it be easier for me to do things, but fuck no. Right in my face its a fucking shit storm of Source code and C++. Now where is that XP CD...
[code]
apt-get install chromium-browser qemu gcc nasm gedit mono-2.0-devel
[/code]
What's wrong?
[editline]01:11PM[/editline]
Also, XP sucks. Install Windows 7 instead.
[QUOTE=xxncxx;21805215]How do I install those, every time I download something its a tar.gz. Its like they expect me to know C++ programming and Open Source like its easy. Can someone help me here.
[editline]11:04PM[/editline]
Screw it, I won't download shit, I got this to get away from the shitty Windows and the crap Mac OSX and this is what I get, a programming class for every fucking download. BULLSHIT. I changed to make it be easier for me to do things, but fuck no. Right in my face its a fucking shit storm of Source code and C++. Now where is that XP CD...[/QUOTE]
This is what happens when you use Linux like it's only a free version of Windows.
turb_'s response above mine is the right way to do it.
Also, you can go to System > Synaptic Package Manager, and install things from there.
[editline]10:14PM[/editline]
Actually turb_'s command needs to have sudo at the beginning. It's minor, but most new users wouldn't know that.
I will install XP because even in Synaptic Package manager there is still shit I do not understand. I will not take a programming class just to run an OS. Thats just stupid.
[editline]11:41PM[/editline]
brian@brian-laptop:~$ apt-get install chromium-browser qemu gcc nasm gedit mono-2.0-devel
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
brian@brian-laptop:~$
Explain that bullshit now. This is what I am talking about, I have to waste my precious time to learn some shit programs, for what, nothing but errors. Thanks a lot. Time to go buy XP again.
[QUOTE=xxncxx;21805813]Explain that bullshit now.[/QUOTE]
the guy above you just did. you need to add sudo to the beginning of the command.
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and if you don't understand Synaptic, you shouldn't even be using a computer, let alone Linux.
[editline]03:46AM[/editline]
And if you're going to be hostile, you don't need to be on the internet.
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