Topic: Ubuntu 12.10

swindle · Posted: February 27, 2013, 08:32:31 pm

Anyone else running this?

I'm enjoying it more then Windows 8. Got this horrendous HP sleekbook for supercheap and it had windows 8 on it. After the slow startup times, slow apps and bluescreens I ragequit and threw Ubuntu on it.

1000x better tbh, at least on low end machines.

Pyromanik · Reply #1 Posted: February 28, 2013, 06:26:57 pm

12.04@work.

You're not using that mad as unity crap are you? Looks as bad as windows 8 :<

swindle · Reply #2 Posted: February 28, 2013, 06:45:53 pm

Unsure. Very new to this stuff. Can you please elaborate a little further?

Pyromanik · Reply #3 Posted: February 28, 2013, 08:33:22 pm

Ah, see this is the beauty of Linux. Don't like some shit? Change it. Super personalisable.
Even Ubuntu, who tend to try and hide this fact as much as possible, is permissive enough to let you run wild.

Unity: Looks like glossy shit, but is really more of the same minus the glossy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface)
Which apparently runs on
http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/
Which is apparently a major step backwards (much like W8 vs W7) compared to the previous version
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME

I started my adventure with Linux using KDE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Software_Compilation

Which bore the KHTML project, which Apple stole and improved into webkit, which now powers most broswers around including Safari, Chrome, and soon Opera.
There have been talks about KHTML and Webkit merging back together. That would be interesting.

Other window managers & desktop environments worth looking into if you're more of a lightweight kinda guy (tend to get less 'sexy' as the list goes down though):
XFCE
OpenBox with LXDE
Fluxbox
Blackbox (what I tend to use)
wmii
dwm

I tend to use blackbox because I'm a minimalist arsehole who hasn't been bothered to get into tiling window managers yet.
It's familiar enough while needing no external library to run.

Bell · Reply #4 Posted: February 28, 2013, 08:50:22 pm

Yea i'm on 12.10 with unity on my work computer.
I'm mostly a linux noob so haven't really bothered looking into what is best etc.
Tell me oh wise Pyro what benefits do I get for changing this shizzle?

Pyromanik · Reply #5 Posted: February 28, 2013, 08:57:15 pm

Comfort.

If you fiddle enough and don't break shit you can also claim e-penis.

It's all personal preference for the most part. Although I encourage people to test different environments out so they learn shit about how the system fits together.

Just... beware the middle click. Drives most newbies insane.

Becasue it pastes.
But in linux, selecting stuff puts it in the clipboard, you don't have to copy - whatever you selected last gets dumped in to wherever you middle clicked.
Although there is a separate clipboard for copied stuff the ctrl+c/p way in most WM's. So that often adds to the confusion.

swindle · Reply #6 Posted: February 28, 2013, 10:22:52 pm

Woah. Cool. Thanks for the intel dude. Appreciated.

Gonna kill Unity and give Gnome a burn. I hear good things.

Pyromanik · Reply #7 Posted: March 01, 2013, 12:30:26 am

Gnome was forked when they released 3 and there are several projects that have kept developing version 2 should you wish to compare. I forget the names, but the most popular ones are listed in that wiki article I linked.

swindle · Reply #8 Posted: March 01, 2013, 01:32:30 am

Scrapped Unity for Xubuntu. Nice. Vnice.

The Demon Lord · Reply #9 Posted: March 01, 2013, 08:30:55 am

Xubuntu is what I used for a file server for a while

might grab the iso for this at work and have a play

Pyromanik · Reply #10 Posted: March 02, 2013, 12:12:59 pm

Quote from: swindle;1519459

Scrapped Unity for Xubuntu. Nice. Vnice.

That's XFCE right?

swindle · Reply #11 Posted: March 02, 2013, 06:08:13 pm

It is indeed. Vnice with an ICON pack.

Pyromanik · Reply #12 Posted: March 03, 2013, 11:00:00 am

Yeh. To anyone who runs things like object dock and or windows blinds etc, linux is a bit of a wet dream in that regard.

You're a rainmeter kinda guy iirc, you might want to look into conky. It's not much on the eyes to begin with, but some people do some pretty mad shit with it. Super configurable. Although that comes at the price of having to fiddle with config files.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conky_%28software%29#Screenshots (cf. middle shot, the desktop 'picture' seems to actually be conky).

swindle · Reply #13 Posted: March 03, 2013, 05:09:09 pm

Woah. Very cool.

Pyromanik · Reply #14 Posted: March 03, 2013, 05:20:34 pm

Word of warning though, I've never used it, and I have heard that it can be a bitch to configure.
Still, plenty of shared configs out there, and help on the googles.

Pyromanik · Reply #15 Posted: March 03, 2013, 05:20:50 pm

Word of warning though, I've never used it, and I have heard that it can be a bitch to configure.
Still, plenty of shared configs out there, and help on the googles.

Pyromanik · Reply #16 Posted: March 03, 2013, 08:37:04 pm

Take some screenies and shiz, show us what you end up with

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