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| Thread ID: 114793 | 2010-12-17 07:26:00 | Moving to Linux | ubergeek85 (131) | PC World Chat |
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| 1162866 | 2010-12-20 11:00:00 | Double-legend. The command line is always better Actually, nix that. sudo: aptitude: command not found |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 1162867 | 2010-12-20 11:11:00 | In Ubuntu you need to use 'apt-get' instead | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1162868 | 2010-12-20 11:13:00 | Boyah! Fixed it, thanks guys. So far everything is going great, it's really only the little things that I'm getting used to, example, in Firefox, when I click in the URL, it doesn't highlight the whole URL, but rather it puts the cursor where I click, and when deleting files, I'm not prompted 'Are you sure you want to delete this?'. Ye gads, an OS that actually does what you want it to? Amazing. I'm reminded of an old joke, all windows error messages, prompts, etc etc, can be suffixed with 'you idiot'. Ex; "Are you sure you want to move this file to the Recycle Bin you idiot?" "The device can now be removed safely you idiot" "This option is recommended for Advanced users only, are you sure you want to continue you idiot?" :D It feels so good to finally be free of that. In Ubuntu you need to use 'apt-get' instead Oops, I got some a'learnin' to do! |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 1162869 | 2010-12-20 11:19:00 | Time for a new avatar methinks... | ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 1162870 | 2010-12-20 11:21:00 | You will get a confirmation if you use Shift+Delete (but of course that is sensible) Only thing that is kinda annoying is the Linux version of UAC, where you have to enter your password every time you want to do something that requires root privileges. It's better than it used to be though. It now remembers your password for a set time so if you are doing a lot of stuff it won't throw up the prompt at every turn. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1162871 | 2010-12-20 12:07:00 | Ye gads, an OS that actually does what you want it to? Amazing. Well it does what you tell it, which may not necessarily be what you want ;) Sorry, I assumed Ubuntu included aptitude by default. (it should) If you have a proper root account you just 'su' to root to do your admin stuff, no need to 'sudo' all the time. Or you could just run as root (www.garyshood.com) all the time :devil (which is just like running windows really :)) |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1162872 | 2010-12-20 17:41:00 | Only thing that is kinda annoying is the Linux version of UAC, where you have to enter your password every time you want to do something that requires root privileges. It's better than it used to be though. It now remembers your password for a set time so if you are doing a lot of stuff it won't throw up the prompt at every turn. Still infinitely better than Windows attempts at it. I disable UAC in Win7 the first chance I get, it just gets in the way so much. Sure, it can be a hassle to have to actually type your root pwd in every time you wanna do a major change, but at least it's *only* for the major changes that it asks, and not for every little modification to your own user account ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1162873 | 2010-12-20 20:38:00 | been ages since i last fooled around with a linux distro, but pretty sure you can change the settings in the password management so that root password is always automatically applied. search around for it, im pretty sure i had that going for me on ubuntu at some point. | mpc (16079) | ||
| 1162874 | 2010-12-20 20:44:00 | If you have a proper root account you just 'su' to root to do your admin stuff, no need to 'sudo' all the time.Or you can use 'sudo -i', which for most purposes achieves the same thing. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 1162875 | 2010-12-22 03:23:00 | ok its all turned to custard now. i think i've toasted grub, can't boot anything off of the hdd, but still can boot to the live cd. on bootup i get the following text error: no such partition. grub rescue>_ it happened atfer i tried to start windows for the first time since i installed ubuntu, i mustve hit the wrong option because it booted into the rescue partition, which then complained about not being able to find a language file, then offered me some options such as reinstall windows, etc. i hit exit, ad it rebooted, then shat itself with the above-mentioned text. heres the second half of a sudo fdisk -l on the live cd; device boot start end blocks id system /dev/sda1 1 1274 10233373plus 12 compaq diagnostics /dev/sda2 * 1275 10383 73162752 6 fat16 /dev/sda3 10383 19457 72888321 5 extended /dev/sda5 18959 19457 3998720 82 linux swap / solaris i'm not sure whats going on tbh, there should be one windows ntfs rescue partion around 10gb, one winodws ntfs partition around 70gb, one /boot ext4 partion around 100mb, one / ext4 partion around 10gb, one swap partion around 4gb, and one /home ext4 partion around 59gb, iirc. this is all windows' fault damnit. google around gives instructions on how to restore grub2, but it would seem that some partions have gone poof, and its a little hard to tell which ones are which tbh. now i'm well and truly out of my depth, don't mind redoing ubuntu, but i can't lose my windows partion, not yet at least. halp btw in case you're wondering, this was all posed from my tablet, hence the crappy writing. |
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