Re: Top 10 Reasons I’ll Never Use Ubuntu Another myth. I live in a retirement community with about 500 other elderly people and a set my...
Re: Top 10 Reasons I’ll Never Use Ubuntu Another myth. You can use Ubuntu and never have to open a terminal. Some things may be easier using a...
Re: Top 10 Reasons I’ll Never Use Ubuntu Unfortunately, a lot of people don't make allowances for the legal strictures that Ubuntu faces. Ubuntu...
You need to add vga=xxx to the end of the boot option line, where xxx is a number indicating the resolution. You can find a table of the number...
Hibernate, when it works, which isn't often in my experience, copies everything in memory to harddisk. And then has to restore in on the next...
How could a device fail without your knowing it? And how often does a device fail? And if one does, just reboot in normal mode. As to how...
I guess you didn't get the part about "option." You change hardware, you boot normally. No change in hardware, Fast Boot.
No. The OS should boot and KNOW the best. If there is an error, it can then invoke the hardware polling. If you want the menu to default to...
So? Linux should to this because Windows does? My suggestion wasn't meant to indicate Linux did a worse job but that there is potentially a...
I'm mean checking to see what hardware is installed on the system. Is there a floppy? Is there a SCSI controller? And on and on. All you have...
One doesn't preclude the other. As it stands, Linux spends a lot of time checking hardware each time you boot. I would prefer a boot option that...
Check here for a complete list of boot options.
Come on people. Distro hopping isn't going to help if the video card fails to boot the LiveCD. Choosing VESA will cure this no matter which...
The whole point is, you are comparing apples and oranges. You aren't using the same app in Linux that you are using in Win, so saying one is...
You tried everything but the right thing to get Ubuntu to boot. If it is hanging at the GUI, then the problem is the video card. Use the Vesa...
Re: Desperately trying to install Ubuntu [Solved] Glad to hear things work out for you.:thumb:
Actually, you can do the same thing using Vbox. Edit: My mistake. Seamless mode works with XP as guest with Ubuntu host but not the other way...
The problem isn't with the distro, its with how you are installing it. But in order it solve your problem, more info is needed. First, let's...
Windows tech attacks Linux tech because FOSS is hurting his income. This is proof, IMO, that Windows service techs see the advantages of using Linux.
I tried it but don't see any real advantages over Puppy 4.2. Did you notice something I might have missed?
Neither did Window and I'll guarantee you can wait till hell freezes over and OO will not be updated in Windows Update.
Six months to test thousands of free apps, given away in a free OS, is an amazing accomplishment. But there are those who would love to see...
You are confusing having the latest versions of apps, which are often UNstable, with getting fast updates to security flaws. The repos don't get...
I couldn't count the ways. But the greatest advantage is that it isn't MS. Anything that helps break MS's strangle hold on the computer...
What uninstall section? You use Synaptic to uninstall it.
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