Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (17 Viewers)

[Martin]

I'm not the tester, you are. Your name is practically on the box.

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[Zé Tahir]

 

[Mark]

ok so I f*ucked up my windows VISTA and installed this UBUNTU thing. Looks good so far. Can I trust that mofo?

I'd like download an app that can keep track of how much I download per day. Tried this vnstat and downloaded it but can't find it.

Help me!

What are the biggest differences I should look out with this new system compared to Windows?

@Martin
@Zé Tahir or whoever can help.

do I need a good antivirus for this thing?

what apps should I download?

How can I install sopcast?

 

[Martin]

You don't need anti virus.

I don't know about download monitors, never used that.

what apps should I download?

What do you like to do? As a music player I use clementine. For videos you probably want vlc.

 

[Mark]

Thanks man. I'm getting used to it. Looks great and does the job. No Antivirus? haha, screw Windows!

I downloaded GIMP to edit images.

Now I just need to install sopcast and I'm fine.

 

[Zé Tahir]

Welcome

To download sopcast: Open the Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and type in:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lyc256/sopcast-player-ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sopcast-player

Those are 3 separate commands btw...so you type the first and then hit enter, then the 2nd...so on so forth.

You might already know this but I was a complete n00b at one point and I didn't know these things

 

[Mark]

testing

 

[Martin]

Ze as mentor

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After the 1st command it says

[sudo] password for mark:

can't write anything.

It's a password prompt. It doesn't show what you type, but it works

 

[Mark]

wait! It's doing something.

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I will bother you fuckers and you know it.

nah, not too much. I'm getting the hang of it.

IT WORKED!!!

I LOVE UBUNTU!

Thanks man!

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

You're welcome.

 

[Mark]

 

[Zé Tahir]

Ze as mentor

@Mark

If you want a taskbar like you're used to having in Windows then do the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:killeroid/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tint2

Also download Unity Tweak Tool from Ubuntu Software Center.

edit: I also recommend installing the Cairo Dock. I didn't like that the Unity Panel took up so much space on the left side of the screen so with the Unity Tweak Tool I hid it and set it to appear when I moused over the top left corner of the screen. Then I installed the Cairo Dock(which I set to only appear when I mouse over the bottom of the screen) to launch apps. Thus I don't really ever go to the Unity Panel anymore.

 

[Mark]

Can I uninstall that windows like taskbar if I want to?

wow thanks dude.

 

[Zé Tahir]

Yeah to uninstall go to the Synaptic Package Manager and search for tint2. Right click and select 'mark for removal' then hit apply.

 

[Mark]

 

[Mark]

Found an app for my downloads because I have a cap. It's called download monitor.
Also I can hide the left sidebar in the appearance section.

 

[petersmit]

I too have Ubuntu.. saved my computer if you ask me.... had windows and it was sooo fucking slow.. bought a new HDD and installed Ubuntu.. and that was a couple years ago... it's still running as fast as possible, where windows was slower than a snail...

no virus scanner = no slow computer

 

[Zé Tahir]

@Martin

Need your help...I get this message when I try to update

Not enough free disk space.

The upgrade is now aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 19.9MB free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional 10.3MB of disk space on '/boot'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using: sudo apt-get clean

I copy pasted that so my numbers are different but I have the same message.

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I have 39.3 mb available out of 246.8 mb

 

[icemaη]

Did you clear your trash?

 

[Martin]

@Martin

Need your help...I get this message when I try to update



I copy pasted that so my numbers are different but I have the same message.

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I have 39.3 mb available out of 246.8 mb

I bet this is because your distro is using a dedicated partition for /boot, which will contain kernel images (a few mb's in size each). As you upgrade your kernel periodically it will fill up. You should do:

$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image

That will give you a listing of all the versions installed (line starts with "ii""). Pick a couple of old ones (make sure it's not the one you're currently running on, cause that will break your system) and (for example):

$ apt-get remove linux-image-3.11.0-17-generic

You can find out which version you're running with:

$ uname -r