Comments on: Five Essential Ubuntu Modifications

By: The Site Company

The Site Company — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:24:37 +0000

Thanks for this, just what i needed

By: Bruce Wagner

Bruce Wagner — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:03:54 +0000

PS – feel free to email your reply to me as well: bruce@brucewagner.com

By: Bruce Wagner

Bruce Wagner — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:03:10 +0000

Please tell me this:

Are the ubuntu-restricted-extras Package, and the libdvdcss Library… REALLY the ONLY difference between Ubuntu and Linux Mint (with regard to media/audio/video playback capability)?

We’ve had nothing but problems trying to get every new version of Ubuntu to play every type of streaming media online… and on disk… MP3… DVDs… Real media… Quicktime… Some things we’ve just never been able to get to play. Also, nothing but problems with the audio / Pulseaudio stuff. Constantly having to reboot in order to get our audio back.

So far, with Mint, we’ve had ZERO such problems.

I’d prefer to stay with Ubuntu… closer to the source…

However, the media playback nightmares are a definite deal-breaker for the average user. (aka what geeks call, “the novice user”)

By: iGadget

iGadget — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:23:22 +0000

shingie: just wait… Afaik, it’s just a final step in the installation of software.

By: shingie

shingie — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:58:36 +0000

Hie

What do u do when it says “ldconfig deferred processing now taking place”

Please help reply

By: kemsiro

kemsiro — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:03:28 +0000

well, Gnome-Do is a must for me whenever i made a clean installation.
In fact, I found it much better than Launchy.

By: rodnox

rodnox — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:36:59 +0000

would be nice if u could tell people that the libdvdcss stuff can also be installed by getting the ubuntu-restricted-extras via the synaptic package manager. thanks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:52:11 +0000

The Ubuntu installer, annoyingly, does not ask you be default where your /home folder is.

Instead, try partitioning manually and setting the mountpoint of your desired /home partition there. I do it every time (Windows XP and Jaunty dual boot, shared partition for data)

By: Cornhoolio

Cornhoolio — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:37:19 +0000

DESKCUT rules. It does the same as windoze ‘put shortcut on desktop’

By: Rex

Rex — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:28:20 +0000

Whatever you do, DO NOT use gnome-do.

The problem is the patent encumbered mono stuff. This will come back to bite everyone’s rump when Microsoft has finally had enough market share loss to really get ticked off.

They will sue every distribution that packages it. That will tarnish every Linux distribution and set back Linux adoption 10 years or more.

Worse: The monetary costs to small distributions will put some, or even most, out of business. For those small distributions that are “individual efforts”, rather having a corporate infrastructure to take the hit, the monetary costs will bankrupt those individuals.

Just DON’T USE MONO.

Yes, remove Tomboy and anything else that uses it, Evolution (good luck with that!); it kills the gnome desktop too.