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moshoodn:


Thanks tsdarkside.

Do you recommend the Ubuntu 14 LTS or Linux Mint?

ubuntu...the community is huge...

tsdarkside:


okay...its virtualization...thank you...

Ok

tsdarkside:


okay...its virtualization...thank you...

actually it's NOT virtualization, virtualisation would be ubuntu running inside windows, using wubi windows is not running. While a wubi installation is slower than it running in it's own partition, it is still faster than running in virtualization

Very soon every body will running linux OS in their PC, have seen the phones running ubuntu?

please my system runs on windows 8.1, and it is partitioned already but the other partition is not empty, i used it to back up most of my important files. now i want to install Ubuntu 14.10 in that partition cos am scared to install it on my windows 8.1(don't want to mess it up), so my question is will the Ubuntu wipe my files in the other partition? cos i intend installing it in the other partition.
new to Ubuntu by the way(want to try it out)

gozmaxs:
please my system runs on windows 8.1, and it is partitioned already but the other partition is not empty, i used it to back up most of my important files. now i want to install Ubuntu 14.10 in that partition cos am scared to install it on my windows 8.1(don't want to mess it up), so my question is will the Ubuntu wipe my files in the other partition? cos i intend installing it in the other partition.
new to Ubuntu by the way(want to try it out)

No it won't, unless you tick the format box in the partition wizard

HI everyone, i want to start using linux but before then can anybody give me reasons why i should use linux over windows

soloskino:
HI everyone, i want to start using linux but before then can anybody give me reasons why i should use linux over windows

Google is not your enemy, there are too many entries on the Internet for what you are looking for. Use YouTube as well.

dazekid:


Google is not your enemy, there are too many entries on the Internet for what you are looking for. Use YouTube as well.

i have but not so convincing

soloskino:

i have but not so convincing

The thing ing Linux is that it has to be your decision. Too many people have been told many reasons but at the end of the day were disappointed.
I started using Linux out of curiosity. Others have different reasons. I could tell you that it's more secure, but security depends on the .
There are people who claim to have never gotten malware on their windows machines, there are also Linux s who have been careless enough to get their browsers compromised.
I've heard people argue that development is better on Linux, but for me o most development tools on Linux can be found on windows, and there are a lot more proprietary windows development tools which make programming easy on windows
What I would recommend is try one out, Ubuntu or mint should be fine. If you like it then you can install it on your PC. That's one of things I like about Linux, I can use it without actually installing it on my computer.
I would suggest mint because you can play your mp3s without installing anything else from the internet, although there is an Ubuntu variant that does this too but I've never used it and can't the name.
Warning, If you are ing mint DO NOT a no codec version otherwise you won't be able to play your MP3 out of the box.
To the Ubuntu fans out there, I know this is an Ubuntu thread, no offence meant, I actually use Ubuntu (actually xubuntu) more often than mint, but for a new it would be very depressing to try out Linux and find out that simple MP3, mp4 files can't be played out of the box (and it's worse if the person doesn't have an internet connection)

blackweaver:


The thing ing Linux is that it has to be your decision. Too many people have been told many reasons but at the end of the day were disappointed.
I started using Linux out of curiosity. Others have different reasons. I could tell you that it's more secure, but security depends on the .
There are people who claim to have never gotten malware on their windows machines, there are also Linux s who have been careless enough to get their browsers compromised.
I've heard people argue that development is better on Linux, but for me o most development tools on Linux can be found on windows, and there are a lot more proprietary windows development tools which make programming easy on windows
What I would recommend is try one out, Ubuntu or mint should be fine. If you like it then you can install it on your PC. That's one of things I like about Linux, I can use it without actually installing it on my computer.
I would suggest mint because you can play your mp3s without installing anything else from the internet, although there is an Ubuntu variant that does this too but I've never used it and can't the name.
Warning, If you are ing mint DO NOT a no codec version otherwise you won't be able to play your MP3 out of the box.
To the Ubuntu fans out there, I know this is an Ubuntu thread, no offence meant, I actually use Ubuntu (actually xubuntu) more often than mint, but for a new it would be very depressing to try out Linux and find out that simple MP3, mp4 files can't be played out of the box (and it's worse if the person doesn't have an internet connection)

You make some really good points, I have never used mint so I don't even know anything about it but when running ubuntu(especially with a GUI) I find that it is easy to figure things out, obviously an internet connection is important during the setup process and installing the music and video binaries is second thing I do(first is install openSDK). Same as you, my linux usage was based on curiosity but I stay on linux mostly because it stays interesting, I have found that with windows, after installing a set of files and doing certain things, it gets boring but on linux, you typically might learn new things everyday.
Ubuntu 14.04 has a very beautiful GUI by the way so that's encouraging as well.

please am using hp pavillion dv3 and it does not connect to my android hotspot, it always show "windows was unable to connect"

please i need help

iamstanleyb:
please am using hp pavillion dv3 and it does not connect to my android hotspot, it always show "windows was unable to connect"

please i need help

Bruv, the thread says Ubuntu Linux na.

Please house am kind of new to the Linux environment. After trying the Ubuntu 14.10. I formatted my laptop and did a clean install of the Linux. I have updated the necessary codec. My question is this: Is there no way to install an applicationwithout going online? I have been trying to install Java jdk for a while now with no success: I wish somebody will help me out. I have tried using Google but it seems I have not really understand the Linux terminology.

islamics:
Please house am kind of new to the Linux environment. After trying the Ubuntu 14.10. I formatted my laptop and did a clean install of the Linux. I have updated the necessary codec. My question is this: Is there no way to install an applicationwithout going online? I have been trying to install Java jdk for a while now with no success: I wish somebody will help me out. I have tried using Google but it seems I have not really understand the Linux terminology.

You need to openJDK 7, search for it in the Ubuntu software centre, I believe you can also go to Java.com/ for a JRE but I have never actually done that before as openJDK works fine for me. You can also type the following commands

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
apt-cache search jdk

dazekid:


You need to openJDK 7, search for it in the Ubuntu software centre, I believe you can also go to Java.com/ for a JRE but I have never actually done that before as openJDK works fine for me. You can also type the following commands

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
apt-cache search jdk

Thank for the tip: I will try itit later in the day

gat a big probs dualbooting my windows 7 wiv linux, i just cant shrink my c disk

hriz:
gat a big probs dualbooting my windows 7 wiv linux, i just cant shrink my c disk

Happens when files are in areas to be shrunk. Try defrag and if it doesn't work you might need to free up more space

ciphoenix:


Happens when files are in areas to be shrunk. Try defrag and if it doesn't work you might need to free up more space

I fink d freeing of space wld be d next tyn to do! Bt out of 320gig I av 50gig free! Aw far should I still extend d free space

hriz:
I fink d freeing of space wld be d next tyn to do! Bt out of 320gig I av 50gig free! Aw far should I still extend d free space

Personally I discovered I can't shrink my drive beyond 70GB of free space. You could find out what yours is. If you have an unallocated space, you can't extend unless you free up from the other side

ciphoenix:


Personally I discovered I can't shrink my drive beyond 70GB of free space. You could find out what yours is. If you have an unallocated space, you can't extend unless you free up from the other side

of course you could use gparted to shrink your partition beyond that, but i don't know how safe it is to do that. Windows will still work but i'm not sure of how the performance will be affected

ciphoenix:


Personally I discovered I can't shrink my drive beyond 70GB of free space. You could find out what yours is. If you have an unallocated space, you can't extend unless you free up from the other side

Usually thanks to shadow copies and check points usually created by windows to enable roll back.. But which also uses space.. The windows partitioner tool always set a soft limit when trying to shrink a partition to make room for future shadow copies .. This and the horrid fragmentation problems of NTFS is why you are unable to shrink beyond 70G even tho u have more storage.

You can try disabling shadow copies (google it last windows I used was xp and vista can't most things and lots have changed since ) and u can also delete created shadow copies (google)

Linux is also for me as a developer I prefer it however I prefer Xfce , Ubuntu is too heavy and cinnamon

I just installed Ubuntu on vmware workstations but cant seem to find out how to add a wireless adapter so I can use WiFi on the linux. Any help? I already added two wired adapters.

pcguru1:
Linux is also for me as a developer I prefer it however I prefer Xfce , Ubuntu is too heavy and cinnamon

Linux Mint Xfce rocks !!!

brothers keeper n all that

ptoall1000:
I just installed Ubuntu on vmware workstations but cant seem to find out how to add a wireless adapter so I can use WiFi on the linux. Any help? I already added two wired adapters.

hmm vmware, it's been a while since I used that, normally I just use virtualbox
Anyway can you ping your host is from the guest?
can you access wireless network from the host machine?
usually you don't need a wireless adapter to access a wireless network when using a guest os.
try this : ping 8.8.8.8
if you don't get a time out error, then you can access the internet, in which case if you still can't browse then your problem is your dns config.
Let me know how far before we continue

Now that Ubuntu 15.04 is out, anyone planning on trying it out anytime soon?
I currently have xubuntu and kubuntu installed on my system, my xubuntu has been misbehaving so i guess i'll get the new one, same thing for kubuntu, though i havent quite taken to this kde5, hopefully it will be less frustrating for me (i need to be able to disable all forms of compositing, the thing always slows down my system)

blackweaver:
Now that Ubuntu 15.04 is out, anyone planning on trying it out anytime soon?
I currently have xubuntu and kubuntu installed on my system, my xubuntu has been misbehaving so i guess i'll get the new one, same thing for kubuntu, though i havent quite taken to this kde5, hopefully it will be less frustrating for me (i need to be able to disable all forms of compositing, the thing always slows down my system)

i would upgrade,but i cant get the damn system to see that theres a new version out. i checked the settings in sources n all that......


KDE without compositing is like garri without sugar.

no matter how much i try to like that KDE thing it just never takes Gnome's*(Unity) place

i will but will have to use office my unity got bugs can't install unity-control-center anymore have to use Cinammon to share my Wifi for the family and Cinammon is slow, i share wifi with cinammon then and use xfce but closing all my works and tabs

Is there a way to install Ubuntu without CD or Flash. What is network installation about? If it is possible how can i go about it?