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Mike

Mike

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On the firing line
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Seriously though, I just installed a new virtual machine (virtualbox, what-the-fuck-ever) and decided to put Ubuntu on it. Mostly because I don't want to buy another install of any windows out there. And secondly, because I was curious about how different (or the same) linux operating systems were.

OMG! I can't figure anything out other than how to click on Firefox and bring up the web!

So, I'm here to bitch about my lack of linux understanding, and ask for some good n00bie references.

Be gentle.
 


I learned it by just using it for a week. Google is your friend for many things you'll stumble on, Ubuntu has GREAT documentation. If all else fails hit the Ubuntu forums, you'll find all the info you'll ever need.
 
sudo apt-get install victory
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I'm on win 7 pretty much 90% of the time now, but I do use Ubuntu for Ruby coding. Package manager is so fucking sick. Hell, that's a major reason why I like Ruby so much too, gotta love gems

It can be confusing initially though, but it's come a hell of a long way over the years
 
Did you get the server edition or something?

Cuz the desktop edition is very straight forward:

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You click the little orange firefox icon.
 
jryan21 said:
Also make a shortcut on the desktop to the Terminal (usually found in Applications->Accessories)
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This, or map it to a shortcut key (system->preferences->keyboard shortcuts). I like WinKey+Enter.

If you're clicking through 3 menus every time you want to open a terminal, you're doing it wrong.
 
If I could manage to set my screen resolution properly, that would be fucking fantastic. Can't install the drivers, because I can't click continue because it doesn't fit on the screen. Trying to tab and hit enter doesn't work either. In summation, fuck Ubuntu.
 
nvanprooyen said:
If I could manage to set my screen resolution properly, that would be fucking fantastic. Can't install the drivers, because I can't click continue because it doesn't fit on the screen. Trying to tab and hit enter doesn't work either. In summation, fuck Ubuntu.
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Could just press enter and see what happens. But normally for the drivers its a exclamation mark in the top right if its a propreitory driver.

I don't have a problem at all with Ubuntu on Vmware, maybe its a virtualbox issue.
 
Not trying to do anything in particular, just trying to figure it out. It's weird having a completely empty desktop, and right click menus aren't always what I expect.

It's just different.

Found Minesweeper and Solitaire, so I guess I'm pretty much set :D
 
nvanprooyen said:
If I could manage to set my screen resolution properly, that would be fucking fantastic. Can't install the drivers, because I can't click continue because it doesn't fit on the screen. Trying to tab and hit enter doesn't work either. In summation, fuck Ubuntu.
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I caught hell trying to get this to work with S-Video TV-out. I have a lot of older ATI radeon cards and had to uninstall the proprietary drivers and use xorg radeon.
 
jryan21 said:
I caught hell trying to get this to work with S-Video TV-out. I have a lot of older ATI radeon cards and had to uninstall the proprietary drivers and use xorg radeon.
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Ya, it's an onboard ATI radeon on this particular machine. Gonna try what Karl said above and see if that works. If not, I'm going to bug the shit out of him on AIM :)
 
If you think Ubuntu looks weird I installed OSX in a VM on my Win 7 laptop last week.

There is NO right click WTF?!?

Needed it for screenflow which is Mac only other than that wasn't sure what all the fuss was about.

I'll try Ubuntu next I think

VM's in general are great though, If you've got a big enough machine. Lovely for running macros or scrape jobs in then just minimising the window.

My office evolution over the past ten years has been:

- several desktops each with monitors for running macros etc.
- several desktops with one monitor via a KVM
- 1 mighty desktop with multi-monitors
- 1 mightier laptop running partition VM's

Ah, Simplicity... Got to love progress..

Anyway, I digress, sorry.
 
nvanprooyen said:
Ya, it's an onboard ATI radeon on this particular machine. Gonna try what Karl said above and see if that works. If not, I'm going to bug the shit out of him on AIM :)
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I found someone having the exact same problem. [ubuntu] (9.10) Installing ATI drivers - vcdk not found? - Ubuntu Forums . Followed Karl's advice, some combination of ! and enter allowed me to continue. Now I'm getting that VCDK missing error. From what it sounds like, I'm clicking the wrong button. Tried it like 5 times with combinations of !, tab and enter and I keep getting the VCDK error, so I must be hitting the wrong one. Frustrating.
 
BlogPiG said:
If you think Ubuntu looks weird I installed OSX in a VM on my Win 7 laptop last week.

There is NO right click WTF?!?

Needed it for screenflow which is Mac only other than that wasn't sure what all the fuss was about.

I'll try Ubuntu next I think

VM's in general are great though, If you've got a big enough machine. Lovely for running macros or scrape jobs in then just minimising the window.

My office evolution over the past ten years has been:

- several desktops each with monitors for running macros etc.
- several desktops with one monitor via a KVM
- 1 mighty desktop with multi-monitors
- 1 mightier laptop running partition VM's

Ah, Simplicity... Got to love progress..

Anyway, I digress, sorry.
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*facepalm*

There is a right click...

Just go under settings, mouse and change the right click from primary to secondary click. It's just this stupid thing that apple has about keeping the interface semi-backward compatible with users from over 15 years ago who once upon a time had a single button mouse and needed to use Ctrl+click, but every mouse since OSX has had 2 or more buttons even if it didn't look like it.

(even the macbooks are double or triple clickable plus gestures even though there may appear to be one or no buttons on the trackpad)
 
kblessinggr said:
*facepalm*

There is a right click...

Just go under settings, mouse and change the right click from primary to secondary click. It's just this stupid thing that apple has about keeping the interface semi-backward compatible with users from over 15 years ago who once upon a time had a single button mouse and needed to use Ctrl+click, but every mouse since OSX has had 2 or more buttons even if it didn't look like it.

(even the macbooks are double or triple clickable plus gestures even though there may appear to be one or no buttons on the trackpad)
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Aha! thanks, that makes things a lot easier.
 
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