Post your desktop

.writer · 01-02-2008

Linux - Ubuntu

It's awesome, yet complicated.

PhysX · 01-02-2008

thought it might be linux, but i wasnt sure

zero2000 · 01-03-2008

Changed mine a few days ago.

Wolfe jr. · 01-31-2008

-paT_BiZzL3- · 01-31-2008

sublime8022 · 01-31-2008

See pat I can't do that with my desk top... I wouldn't be able to do anything else besides stare at that.

Ps. Whats so good about Linux - Ubuntu? I only know 2 people with linux. Anything special anything worse?

-Graff- · 01-31-2008

Yeah, The Binary Pirates is my gang. No, you can't join.

Subject 17 · 02-03-2008

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Originally Posted by sublime8022

See pat I can't do that with my desk top... I wouldn't be able to do anything else besides stare at that.

Ps. Whats so good about Linux - Ubuntu? I only know 2 people with linux. Anything special anything worse?

Tbh it's not all it's cracked up to be in my opinion. There's like a thousand programs to replace windows applications, but most of them aren't as good as the windows version. The desktop and other effects are friggin awesome too look at though. Also, there's this thing called wine that essentially acts as a virtual machine or emulator for your windows applications, so you can have things like notepad++ work on it. Personally, I would never have it as my only operating system (even if I wasn't a gamer), but I'm fine with dual booting it. Also, it isn't as stable as I thought it was going to be, it actually crashed a few times (not a complete system crash, but it did lock up a few times). Yeah, it crashes about as much as XP for me.

And if you do get it, never ever do what they tell you to in the readmes of a downloaded program. do an apt-get instead of a ./configure. That's where I effed up on my first install of ubuntu.

Anyway, that's just my 2 cents on ubuntu.

.writer · 02-04-2008

Im fine with it as my only OS, though it does get frustrating at times. Mind you, when I installed this, I have never worked with linux before so it basically kicked me in the **** and said "look here *****, I AM NOT windows, so don't **** with me"...but, I've managed to learn the basics and can do some simple stuff. For example the other day I changed my system name, not knowing that doing this totally deleted my old usernames directory, and I manged to fix it by logging into root and creating a new user via the failsafe terminal. It was hard until I started to do it. Even though it was a very simple process, I was pretty proud of myself. lmao

But yeah, sorry for the long story. All in all, I like Ubuntu, though it could be better.

Subject 17 · 02-06-2008

Yeah, for all it's flaws, ubuntu is a pretty decent operating system. I also love the built in functionalities it includes, like gparted. Gparted is basically better than any of the 40 dollar and up programs to repartition a drive if you want to run the program through windows. Soo much better than the standard windows one, which doesn't even let you resize partitions.