Sir Humpsalot

On day #2 through #5 with linux I had almost exactly the same sentiment. Now I actually like a lot of things about Linux. As many folks have said, "it's not windows. It's different". With a little more time I think you'll start to look at a few things in linux and say, "Hey.. that's pretty cool..." And that's part of what made me hop on the bandwagon. The only thing linux needs to be useable (not the best, but "useable") by the mainstream is drivers for things like printers. So basically, so long as people are adamant about using Linux, there will be a market for the drivers. Sooner or later, it's going to be filled. I hear what you're saying about running the cleaning programs and whatnots for your printer. On my canon MP780, I can run all of those options through the LCD menu, so it's not strictly necessary. Again, it's not really any harder than doing it on the computer, just different... just gotta get used to it (just like I had to get used to a lot of weird windows ways of doing things...)

And as for you gamers, not that the games are great or anything, but... it is cool to talk to windows users and tell them, "hey, you know that if you run Linux such as Kubuntu or Mint or whatever, you can go to the start menu where it says "Add/Remove programs" and download full versions of free games?"

I don't kid anybody suggesting they are as good as the games you pay for, but am I crazy for thinking it's the best free (adware and virus-free) collection of games on the 'net?

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KloroFormd

Nexuiz is a pretty darn good game if you ask me. I'd play it more often if CS: S didn't work so well in WINE.

I advise anyone that finds problems with their hardware being supported in Linux to call and complain to the device manufacturer. If they get annoyed enough, they'll listen.

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I did Latty's Linux Challenge and I now still use Linux!

RoddimusPrime

Well, we can all hope Unreal 3 gets a version out that natively supports Linux sometime soon.

The Hundred Gunner

It doesn't already? I haven't read up on it, but I thought there was a native UT3 Linux version.

Nexuiz is fun

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"But you would be amazed by how many people think that the only reason to have a computer is to play games, and that playing games is all that anyone with a computer does." - dangerousHobo

"Linux is everywhere, it is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. " - mbp

"I have used a mac before. And they still don't have right click I mean come on." - aakar

Blah, blah, can't hear you

biatchi

Last time i used it there was no su whatsoever? In fairness it is quite a while since i used *buntu

Claws-mail is a relly good mail client.

@THG - How are you getting on with exaile?

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The Hundred Gunner

[quote=biatchi;3169347]Claws-mail is a relly good mail client.

Evolution always seemed kinda "cheap" to me...

Until I get that libpython2.5... file, I don't think I can get this thing working. I'm stumped at how even by installing this through the package manager that it won't work. I think it might also have something to do with my OS being 64-bit.

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"But you would be amazed by how many people think that the only reason to have a computer is to play games, and that playing games is all that anyone with a computer does." - dangerousHobo

"Linux is everywhere, it is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. " - mbp

"I have used a mac before. And they still don't have right click I mean come on." - aakar

Blah, blah, can't hear you

biatchi

Unistall exaile
install this rpm http://packman.links2linux.org/downl...m.2.x86_64.rpm and let me know what happens.

If it doesn't work we can install exaile from source.

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The Hundred Gunner

Nope. When I click on the RPM and try to install through YaST, it loads my repos then automatically closes (Linux seems to have a tendency to "just not load things" sometimes.

When I do sudo rpm -i <file.rpm>, it says it's already installed, but execing exaile in the Konsole tells me all those plugins aren't found (all the gstreamer plugins like.. well I saw libreaddvd or something like that and some others.)

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"But you would be amazed by how many people think that the only reason to have a computer is to play games, and that playing games is all that anyone with a computer does." - dangerousHobo

"Linux is everywhere, it is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. " - mbp

"I have used a mac before. And they still don't have right click I mean come on." - aakar

Blah, blah, can't hear you

biatchi

Could you paste the output of what it says in konsole please.

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Sistum Id

Well so Ubuntu has been a week now I think its ok but it wont run the main game I run and running it tho a virtual desktop or windows emulator makes it slow. Ill keep it on my test laptop because compiz-fuzion is awesome and turns heads. But my skydome image turns black and causes images to load with a black screen so I have to restart my laptop every 2-3 hours.

I got one more option and that is to do a dual boot on my main machine. But thats gonna take a whole day...maybe next week Ill try it out.

Other then that its been one hell of a hassle.

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