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[quote user="seaturnip"] Okay, yeah, come to think of it, I was too quick to rant here and should cut Ubuntu a little slack. I've never known WiFi to be perfectly reliable anyway, and it's not like other desktop operating systems have a package manager at all. [/quote] Linux has come...

KenW: Windows requires better hardware and more RAM than Linux because it's designed to be used by more, less computer literate people than Linux is, plain and simple. Linux would be really great if everyone on the planet was comfortable working at the just-slightly-better-than-a-DOS-prompt-but-with...

I used to have a similar behaviour with the Ubuntu live-CD. If I unmounted any partition, it would tell me to "not eject the drive until the operation is done" or words to that effect. But the "drive" was an internal IDE drive. I wonder how can I "eject" a hard drive. Will it break through my case?

HeroreV: Linux developers hate rebooting so much that even after a kernel update, Ubuntu said nothing about rebooting. Then a power failure caused a restart, which caused the Nvidia driver to stopped working. I couldn't find the installer, so I had to edit xorg.conf to change the driver to nv, startx...

I have to call this not a WTF. The WD MyBook is basically a user friendly (read dead easy to use) external drive, designed for the general populace to plug in and do backups. It comes with some autorun backup programs for Windows, but works just fine on my Linux boxes as well (in case you couldn't tell...

H3SO5: "SQL stupidity" "walrus web" Conspiracy theory anyone? More like Ubuntu's naming scheme :)

GeneWitch: Beryl, ubuntu, XGL for the win. now if only steam, EALink, and wow would run! WTF is compiz? i keep hearing about it. someday i'll look it up. Yeah, I use Beryl as well :) I've got some screenshots of mine (screenshots are a bit old, I've changed some stuff since then): And a screenshot of...