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Anyone running Ubuntu?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

If yes how are you finding it?

Am thinking of changing to it, just wondered how other's find it and if everything that runs under Win7 will still work?

Thanks, D.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What is it exactly?? xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

it's an open-source comptuer operating system;-)

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

and will run on computers as well! lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"and will run on computers as well! lol"

does that mean some computer operating systems don't run on computers???

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Arrr ya mean like the windows operating system??

Sorry not really computer savvy xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"and will run on computers as well! lol

does that mean some computer operating systems don't run on computers??? "

no it just means I was correcting how I didn't spell computer correctly on my reply to soapy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ubuntu roxx m8, you will not regret swapping to it and binning the crap from bill gates, very stable, very little chance of virus or spyware, so secure infact I dont even run an antivirus on mine, some things will take getting used to but it wont take a long and you will love it...LINUX ROOLZ

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"ubuntu roxx m8, you will not regret swapping to it and binning the crap from bill gates, very stable, very little chance of virus or spyware, so secure infact I dont even run an antivirus on mine, some things will take getting used to but it wont take a long and you will love it...LINUX ROOLZ"
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thanks!

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By *eighleedsMan
over a year ago

leeds

Its a LINUX distibution, whoch is a free version of UNIX more or less

No it wont run everything yoru windows can, especially a lot of games if you use your PC for games at all

for other stuff like say MS Office, you will need to use a open source version, Openoffice is very good, and is compatable with MS Office

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Its a LINUX distibution, whoch is a free version of UNIX more or less

No it wont run everything yoru windows can, especially a lot of games if you use your PC for games at all

for other stuff like say MS Office, you will need to use a open source version, Openoffice is very good, and is compatable with MS Office"

thans, I don't use laptop for games so that won't bother me at all, noticed on their site it comes with Firefox so that's great as won't need to d/l that again, and it has Open Office, has own movie player etc., so looks like I will get it

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

on the other side of the coin, it can run very many of the games, you can run many windows programs by using a combination of winE and cedega, my preference of web browser is google chrome rather than firefox which also works very well on nix

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've just started running ubuntu on my spare pc. Looks good so far and you can run a few windows programs on it using a piece of software called 'wine'.

Have a look on youtube and you'll find lots of good (and bad) tutorials on getting to grips with ubuntu and installing windows software using wine.

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston

I can't even get msn to run on my new lappy, never mind trying anything else

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I would also recommend installing vlc for media playback rather than relying on the inbuilt apps

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Arrr ya mean like the windows operating system??

Sorry not really computer savvy xx"

that's ok, I just dilike Microsoft and all the security updates that keep downloading I wanted to look at a change from Windows....deleted previous post as my fingers keep hitting the wrong keys again today!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

_muma try downloading pidgin for your msn, it doesnt have webcam facility but is very good for having multiple accounts in 1 place

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston

don't like pidgins, they are rats with wings

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

thanks for the useful tips, just one question, does the vcl player work better? I tried it on Win xp and had nothing but headaches with it...._muma sorry to hear that, tried runnning troubleshooter?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Arrr ya mean like the windows operating system??

Sorry not really computer savvy xx

that's ok, I just dilike Microsoft and all the security updates that keep downloading I wanted to look at a change from Windows....deleted previous post as my fingers keep hitting the wrong keys again today! "

updates on ubuntu are very simple, just remember this lines to type in a terminal window "sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y"

and your system will be updated without any other input

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"don't like pidgins, they are rats with wings "

lol but the breast tastes good ( did I really say that? )

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston


"don't like pidgins, they are rats with wings

lol but the breast tastes good ( did I really say that? ) "

I know mine do lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"don't like pidgins, they are rats with wings

lol but the breast tastes good ( did I really say that? )

I know mine do lol "

lol I expected that

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Arrr ya mean like the windows operating system??

Sorry not really computer savvy xx

that's ok, I just dilike Microsoft and all the security updates that keep downloading I wanted to look at a change from Windows....deleted previous post as my fingers keep hitting the wrong keys again today!

updates on ubuntu are very simple, just remember this lines to type in a terminal window "sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y"

and your system will be updated without any other input"

again thanks for the info. will copy this thread and make use of suggestions when I have the time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My laptop is fucked. It just keeps playing "Chasing Pavements" over and over again.

I think it's a Dell.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My laptop is fucked. It just keeps playing "Chasing Pavements" over and over again.

I think it's a Dell."

Never heard of chasing pavements lol tried the one button recovery that most dell come with?

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston


"My laptop is fucked. It just keeps playing "Chasing Pavements" over and over again.

I think it's a Dell."

pmsl mar. quality x

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My laptop is fucked. It just keeps playing "Chasing Pavements" over and over again.

I think it's a Dell.

pmsl mar. quality x"

lol yeh good one - would have been better if I had ever heard of adele then I could have joined in!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mmmmmmmm is it in the 4.30 at Cheltenham ?

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