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I'm going to install Win7 to replace XP in my dualboot XP/8.10 laptop.

Depending on how good Win7 is I might migrate completely to Win7.

My experience with 8.10 has been so-so and I'm starting...

same issue

Money also buy food. Food feeds artists. Keep artists alive.:)

You're right, I will edit some of the insults out. They're uncalled for. Altho, I do call them like I see 'em.

A person's beliefs on file-sharing, pirating, and the "right" to other people's creative work is built on assumptions and paradigms of how the world works.
I say this as someone who used to believe...

I'm here to help you. Read and take my advice.
I had a 2002 computer. I played Counter-strike on it just fine for several years. After a while CS started getting laggier and slower until in 08, 09...

even if you are a freesoftware zealot you must still understand the concept of business and making a profit. Not everything in the world is free and there won't ever be a time when everything is...

great, another windows-hating religious linux zealot. I just hope you don't run back to windows when your sound breaks.

Yea gee I can think of many things. The problem is, Linux is the way it is becuase its NOT mainstream. Its a tool for hackers and programmers. once you start dumbing it down for the general...

For some reason, my PCM output was MUTED.
alsamixer -Dhw
and increased the PCM. It was set at 0.
weird thing is, in my desktop volume settings, the PCM was set just fine. Are thee volume...

It seems that this has been happening to quite a few users.
This happened to me yesterday.

The problems all seem to be related:
all of a sudden, sound just stops working... seems to be a pulse...

The decision to start charging for Ubuntu is a philosophical choice and only one that Mark Shuttlesworth and Canonical can make. I doubt they will go down that path because one of the core principles...

Hi all, wondering if I can get help with troubleshooting this.
My sound was working fine (well relatively; pulseaudio always give me random troubles but worked if I restarted)
but all of a sudden...

I already get a lot of weird issues so maybe i'd have to try that out

Ubuntu 8.10 32-bit

Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop
2.2ghz Core2Duo
4GB RAM

IME firefox is noticably slower in Ubuntu than Windows. I don't think ints Ubuntu's fault but rather, Mozilla's.

I'm glad this test is gaining attention on the web. hopefully Mozilla will get to...

Hmm.. what about the random shutdowns and freezes? Those happen even without youtube open. They are s-c-a-r-y. I could be in the middle of doing something important and have to power down my...

Thread title says it all. Flash player works 80% of the time. Firefox will freeze my entire system an average once every 12 hrs. (no force kill, no shortcuts work, have to power down + restart). ...

To be fair, the numerous problems I experience in Ubuntu might not be Ubuntu's fault, eg. Firefox, VLC, Sound issues.

These are things outside of Ubuntu's control I think

Its hard to say which OS I spend more time "fixing" things in.
I think its fair to guess that for most users, they don't do much "fixing" or "tweaking" in Windows and do more of those things in...

Guys, Quanta+ is driving me crazy. Right after I hit CTRL+S to save whatever file I am working on, Quanta will NOT let me type anything in to the screen. I have to switch to another file and then...

Boo, I'm using Django 1.02.. any idea when Google App Engine will support Django 1.02? .96 is kinda old..

No no no no no. Do NOT install Eclipse from Synaptic. Please reference this thread for information about installing the latest ver. of Eclipse (3.4) in Ubuntu.

The latest version of Eclipse is not...

Thanks guys..
(Just compiling all the options into one helpful list)

Alt+F2

killall firefox

It might be possible to also call xkill with
Control+Alt+Escape

Hey guys, I'm getting a bit fed up with being helpless when ubuntu crashes on me. Usually the culprit is a firefox page that will just freeze my entire system. I can still move my mouse and I can...