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Articles Collection of Sep’08 « Dako-Tux — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:36:37 +0000

[...] How I Became A Happy Ubuntu User [...]

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:04:46 +0000

I have a similar experience. My annoyance #1: file manager. I find Vistas Explorer quite handy. I tried Konqueror but I’m stuck on getting it to show unmounted filesystems by default (I’m not automounting everything). Would be nice to hear other people’s experience on file managers. Great useful page, thank you.

By: aYo

aYo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:05:33 +0000

. I think all switchers have the same experience. In my case I got fed up with gloating Mac Users and was terrified moving to Vista – I took the High Jump and have never looked back since – Ubuntu Hardy (work comouter) and laptop 2 -> UbuntuStudio () for prime laptop. I run XP on VirtualBox for windows apps I need and find it runs faster there than on my 20″ Acer laptop that has Windows XP

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:01:48 +0000

Hey Great Post!

I found a great way to get your video card drivers right.

Envy is awesome for detecting the right display drivers.

By: DJ

DJ — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:00:13 +0000

Way to go! We got a new laptop, and it has Vista. While Vista is OK (yeah – on a 3GB RAM and 2 GHz Dual-core its actually fast enough), I find myself still gravitating to my Ubuntu on the desktop.

I don’t do PC games, but I know a big reason why most people don’t do this is they like gaming on PC’s (or work-related). If Ubuntu can make WINE easier and better it will dominate.

By: Boo Radley

Boo Radley — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:23:26 +0000

Don’t forget (or maybe you don’t know) there is a handy “Add/Remove Programs” option for even easier software installs uninstalls. Categorized, described, and rates – install/uninstall multiple programs with just a few clicks…

And if you absolutely must have the cutting edge version you can enable “backports” under the Software Sources utility.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:18:03 +0000

Thanks all! That’s what I love about the linux community, everyone is willing to lend a hand and they are all so welcoming.

By: The Mike

The Mike — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:12:28 +0000

Thats great. I’m happy for you. I was in your shoes a few years back. You definitely picked the right flavor of Linux to start with.

I wasn’t as smart. I started with a LiveCD (Slax) and then moved to Slackware. But this path taught me a lot about do-it-yourself configurations.

Welcome to the community. Drop me an email if you have a pressing question about Ubuntu that you can’t get answered in the forums. Its nice to meet like-minded people.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:01:03 +0000

Well welcome aboard, and I have been using Ubuntu for the past 4 years and have used other Linux distributions before. I love how Ubuntu does things works well on all my machines and it’s great. Been Windows free completely (100%) for the past 6 months and I love it.

By: DakoChan

DakoChan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:12:34 +0000

Good post and nice theme too.