Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin - Five more years!

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Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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ShadowHawk posted:

Is there disk thrashing going on?

There are a few automated tasks that might be happening right after startup, particularly initial startup (like polling for updates), so it may help to figure out what's going on.

Does it do any disk indexing?

# ¿ Apr 27, 2012 22:22

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 20:47

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

I made a 12.04 LiveUSB and it booted up on my HP Compaq 2510p laptop, so I'm going to do something possibly dumb and nuke my perfectly good Fedora 16 LXDE system and install Ubuntu.

I never use the drat thing anyway so I'll just stay up all night re-installing Fedora if it sucks.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2012 02:37

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

I installed gvim from Ubuntu Software Center... but when I try to search for it in the launcher, it it's not found? I can type gvim from the Terminal and it launches, but the icon looks like poo poo and then if I lock that icon to the launcher, it won't start it again.

edit: This morning it's there. Ugh.

Bob Morales fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Apr 29, 2012

# ¿ Apr 29, 2012 03:34

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Daynab posted:

I'm pretty new at Linux, and tried Ubuntu a while back but it just seemed so... bloated. Like having 30 different programs already preinstalled that I don't need.

Is there any alternative Ubuntu where the distro is lightweight, has the necessary stuff installed but lets me choose what programs I actually want to get in the first place?

They don't really install that much at default. And unless you have a 4GB hard drives, does it really matter? I can install a ton of random poo poo, stuff I'll never use and I still barely crack a couple gigs. If you're trying to cram Linux on some ancient computer you don't want Ubuntu anyway.

I figure with a 500GB hard drive I might as well install 8GB of worth of programs that I might never use (Blender or a video editor for instance) and then if I need it, I won't have to go searching for it.

The bad thing is that the more stuff you have installed, the more updates you'll get.

# ¿ Apr 30, 2012 01:35

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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The Merkinman posted:

Which would mean 75%, or 3/4 majority could run 64-bit
How low would the percentage of 32bit need to be??

I think part of the argument is that if you are going to actually utilize 64-bit, you'll go through the trouble of choosing it, so why alienate potential users by not using 32-bit as the default?

# ¿ May 1, 2012 15:09

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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AlexDeGruven posted:

It's quite likely you have a brewing hardware problem. Optical drive, hard drive, memory, something is not right.

Mint is based on the same core as Ubuntu, so if you end up with the same or similar problems, it's time to do some testing/replacing.

My money would be on a driver

# ¿ May 2, 2012 02:55

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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The Merkinman posted:

Makes sense, so 64-bit will never be the recommended version.

Wasn't stuff still compiled for 386 (and not say, 686) up until just recently?

And if you tell gcc to shoot for 686 or whatever, is it just optimized for 686 or does it use features the 386 didn't have any therefore is incompatible?

# ¿ May 2, 2012 13:57

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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fuf posted:

I have a Dell XPS M1330 and I'm getting sick of how slow Windows 7 seems to run. It's only an intel core 2 duo with 1gb of ram but even opening a pdf or something takes a frustratingly long time.

Is it worth switching to Ubuntu if speed is my priority? I've used it before which is why I'm drawn to it, but maybe I should try a different distribution if ubuntu is not significantly faster than windows?

Ubuntu 11 LXDE is retard-fast on this 'old' Dell Q6600

code:

model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9550  @ 2.83GHz
MemTotal:        5541116 kB

Not exactly a low-end machine but Windows 7 seriously took 2-3 minutes to boot and was pretty slow. Granted it was a 2-year old install with a bunch of random poo poo on it. I basically have it as a backup Rails development station, and with gVim, Chrome, Firefox, MySQL Workbench and a bunch of terminal windows open (while running a Rails development setup) it's way faster than my i3 iMac with 8GB (4-6GB used with the same stuff open) and never goes over 1.5GB of RAM :iiam:

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on my HP 2510p at home, and while 11 LXDE was a bit quicker it's really not too bad. That's a much lower-end machine, C2D 1.4GHz, 2GB RAM, slower-than hell 1.8" HDD

Bob Morales fucked around with this message at 15:31 on May 7, 2012

# ¿ May 7, 2012 15:27

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Case of the missing hard drive...

http://askubuntu.com/questions/133135/ubuntu-12-04-installer-not-detecting-extra-hdd

Not my post but it looks like a similar problem.

I have a Dell Precision T3400 that ran Ubuntu 11.10 just fine. I have a 750GB WD hard drive on /dev/sda and a 250GB WD hard drive on /dev/sdc, and a DVD drive on /dev/sdb

When I boot the 12.04 live cd, the 750GB doesn't show up in the Ubuntu installer as a target disk. But it shows up in dmesg.

# ¿ May 7, 2012 20:28

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Why doesn't the installer actually tell you why a disk isn't showing up?

http://superuser.com/questions/232850/why-doesnt-the-ubuntu-installer-see-all-of-my-hard-drives

quote:

Try to boot a live session and start a terminal session (or to switch to the console with CTRL-ALT-F1) and issue:

$ sudo os-prober
You'll probably see a probing error which could be the reason why your drive is not taken in consideration. It's quite likely that your second drive has leftovers of a RAID configuration, in this case it's sufficient to do:

$ sudo dmraid -rE
(-r = raid, -E remove metadata) and confirm the operation. Start the installer and you should see it.

# ¿ May 7, 2012 21:23

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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I made a shortcut to a program on the desktop, picked an icon for it and it looks and works great. Even shows the right icon in the dock. But when i drag the icon to the launcher, it reverts back to the jack in he box looking spring icon.

edit: figured it out

I created this file as ~/.local/share/applications/sublime.desktop

code:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Sublime Text 2
Comment=Sublime Text
Exec="/home/robert/Downloads/Sublime Text 2/sublime_text" %F
MimeType=text/plain;
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=sublime_text.png
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;TextEditor;Development;Utility;

Then I copied the icone file included with the app to /usr/share/pixmaps/

Bob Morales fucked around with this message at 15:22 on May 12, 2012

# ¿ May 12, 2012 13:37

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Installed to external USB hard drive but I got a grub fatal error at the end of the install. I booted a USB with rEFIt and it didn't see it. What do I have to do special to get my Macbook Air to boot a USB hard drive with Ubuntu on it?

# ¿ May 14, 2012 01:52

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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fuf posted:

Are there any good web development IDEs for ubuntu (lubuntu in my case if that makes a difference)?

Or even just a nice text editor with HTML and CSS highlighting?

Sublimetext is a fine text editor

# ¿ May 19, 2012 14:44

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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gmq posted:

So, I'm thinking about installing Ubuntu again. I have one question though, is there anything similar to Photoshop that is not GIMP? I used to use a Windows VM just for Photoshop and I'd like to avoid that this time.

Run it in WINE?

# ¿ May 19, 2012 17:22

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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enthe0s posted:

Not sure why this is, but for some reason when I tried to do a clean install from my USB drive, there was a problem at the end trying to install GRUB (I tried twice). After burning to a disc and using that instead, the installation went off without a hitch. Just a heads up for anyone who might be having trouble.

Same thing happened when I tried on my MBA. I think there's a problem enumerating the install drive since it's on USB or something.

# ¿ May 31, 2012 21:19

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Triikan posted:

And finally, what's the best RDP analogue to control this box with my windows 7 devices?

VNC

# ¿ Jun 26, 2012 18:23

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Sleepstupid posted:

Is this what is used by default when you check "let others control this desktop" (?)

I did that and can access my box from my mac but it is unusably slow.

Do you have graphical effects, wallpaper, etc?

# ¿ Jun 30, 2012 23:34

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Sleepstupid posted:

Not sure about effects, I just installed from scratch, I haven't customized anything.

Shouldn't be too slow unless you have some 30" monitor or something. I can control my Mac at work from home over a 10/2 cable modem, dual screens @ 1920x1080 and it's pretty usuable.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2012 00:06

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Read posted:

I didn't see anything about this in the OP or in the thread when I skimmed through it , apologies if it's already been discussed. Could someone give me a quick writeup of why you use Ubuntu over Windows, OSX or another distribution of Linux? Do you consider Ubuntu flatly superior over Windows, or would you only recommend certain people use it? Concrete examples of things that are difficult to achieve in another OS but easy in Ubuntu?

Ubuntu vs Windows or Mac and Ubuntu vs insert other Linux distribution is a battle nobody wins.

That said, there's plenty of reasons to use Linux:

The majority of the software doesn't cost anything. You don't need to buy a $29 upgrade when a new version comes out, and you don't have to buy a $150 copy of Linux when you build a new computer.

The majority of the software is open source. That means if you find a bug in a program or want to change how it works, you can download the source code and make that change. Not that many people do this, however. You're also raging against Microsoft/Apple and benefiting from free software, not just free in price but free as in there are no restrictions on modifiying it for your use (and sharing it with each other).

It's loving UNIX, man. You can do all kinds of cool poo poo you never dreamed about in Windows with a Unix-based or Unix clone operating systems. There's a ton of shells, window managers, and hundreds of little programs that you can cobble together to make amazing stuff out of.

You can customize the gently caress out of it. OS X basically doesn't let you change a single loving thing, Windows lets you change a little bit. Search for 'post your desktop' threads on Linux-related websites and your mind will be blown.

Linux is great to just tinker with. You can spend hours just playing around with stuff, re-installing different versions of it, and learning about it. It's like working on an old car or any other hobby.

Linux is awesome for programming. There's support for so many different languages, many of them built in. Perfect for learning programming, taking computer science classes, and writing programs that do whatever you want. C, C++, Java, Ruby, Python, Perl, whatever.

Linux can stripped down to run faster than Windows or OS X on the same hardware. You can get life out of a machine that is too slow to run Windows 7 or Apple quit supporting OS X on.

Linux is great for servers. Web server? File server? Database server? Email server? Linux does all of this, for free. No paying hundreds or thousands of dollars in client access licenses or expensive server software.

Why use Ubuntu specifically? It's very common, so there's plenty of support out there for it. Chances are, if you're stuck with a problem, someone else already had the same problem and figured it out. If you need help, just go on IRC (https://www.freenode.net), the Ubuntu forums (https://www.ubuntuforums.org), or the Ubuntu Stack Exchange site (https://www.askubuntu.com) That also means there's lots of software out there, specifically for it. You don't have to dick around with a software package, compiling, re-configuring, etc. You literally just find it in the software center and install it.

Bob Morales fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Aug 29, 2012

# ¿ Aug 29, 2012 00:46

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Read posted:

Would you mind screencapping this and posting it? Just curious.

Check these out:

http://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn

# ¿ Aug 29, 2012 15:06

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Nystral posted:

Do you miss the days of green and black CRT displays or something?

Reminds me of looking up books on DYNIX at the library. I always thought there was some secret way to break into those, get into UNIX, and get the 'net.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2012 17:37

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Apok posted:

I installed Ubuntu through wubi.exe and really wanted the 64-bit version but I didn't see the option and I'm pretty sure I'm stuck with the 32-bit install. It's not a major deal, as its running fine and its just my work computer, but I'd feel better having the 64-bit version.

Is there a way that I can choose?

Is the OS on your work computer 64-bit? I thought by default wubi pulled down the 64-bit version of Ubuntu but you could use the 32-bit version if you manually downloaded it and told it to install that.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2012 16:14

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Roving Reporter posted:

What would be a good resource (book or website) for a Ubuntu Server crash course? I'm trying to set up/become knowledgeable about doing my own Ubuntu Server but GUI over the years has killed me with Windows/OS X.

I'm pretty much looking for something that will a)help me run a headless server remotely, and b)a good CLI foundation where I can navigate comfortably without having to copy&paste or constantly reference commands.

Remote GUI or web panel access would be nice, but I ultimately need to learn this stuff. Dealing with Putty for the past few days has been

This isn't a bad start:

http://www.amazon.com/Ubuntu-Unleashed-2012-Edition-Covering/dp/0672335786/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

And this to get more technical:

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Ubuntu-Linux-3rd/dp/013254248X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350831854&sr=1-1&keywords=ubuntu+linux

# ¿ Oct 21, 2012 16:04

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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The Merkinman posted:

The desktop version of 10.04 has 3 years of support, so that's only 6 months left as of this post. 12.04 has 5 years desktop support so that will be April 2017

Heh, I just updated the old P4 I gave to my mom that was running Ubuntu 9.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2012 18:20

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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mystes posted:

People born after CRTs universally supported DPMS can drive and possibly vote now. I'm pretty sure we can stop supporting actual animated screensavers.

They look really cool. If you don't have a 3D animated model or a Matrix-inspired screen saver, how are you going to look like real hacker?

# ¿ Nov 9, 2012 20:15

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

peepsalot posted:

I have a Thinkpad W510 recently upgraded to 12.10, and I've noticed that I can no longer change my LCD backlight brightness from within the GUI. During boot up, I can change the brightness around, but once it gets into X, it seems that brighntess controls no longer work. I had this problem a couple years ago when I first got this computer, and I can't remember what I ever had to do to fix it(or maybe some software update fixed it).

The weird thing is I can switch to virtual console with Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then do brightness controls from there, and switch back to X and it sticks, but this is a bit kludgy. When I press the brightness buttons within X, i actually get the OSD for brightness settings and it shows the brighness bar moving, but the actual brightness doesn't change until I'm back at a console. Also I'm using Cinnamon desktop if that matters. Any ideas why this brightness setting is so flaky?

What graphics card?

http://massivecoding.blogspot.com/2012/06/lenovo-t410-nvidia-display-brightness.html

# ¿ Dec 22, 2012 07:02

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Anyone else running 12.04 on a Mac?

I installed it on my 2010 Macbook Air and everything pretty much works perfectly out of the box. Used a USB drive that I dd'd the ISO to, installed rEFIt and it dual-boots as easy as on a PC.

Touchpad is super-sensitve and the wifi is a little buggy (lags on startup and magically lost the network twice), but the CPU clocks down and the brightness etc keys work.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2013 01:11

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Mak0rz posted:

I'm running it (Xubuntu 12.04) on a fairly old Macbook 2,1 with no problems whatsoever. Brightness and volume keys work without issue and the touchpad is fine. I never tested the firewire or the video outputs, however. Have you?

Video out works fine, I can have two separate desktops. Compiz RAM seems to go through the roof (1.7GB?) though.

Don't have firewire ports or devices so I can't speak for those.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2013 17:22

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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VikingofRock posted:

This might not be the right thread for this question, but here goes:

I have a scan of a lab notebook, saved as a pdf, and I would like use it as an example for one of my classes. To maintain my student's anonymity I would like to censor her name from the pdf. What's the best way to do this? I'm posting this here because I'm running Ubuntu and would like to avoid installing Adobe if possible (also I didn't see a "stupid questions megathread" for software).

You could also open it in GIMP and edit it, and then save it to a PNG since it's kind of senseless to save a scan as a PDF. PDF just saves images as another image format (usually JPEG) inside the PDF file AFAIK

# ¿ Jan 28, 2013 20:22

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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mmm11105 posted:

I need to get a linux partition set up for some development stuff. Right now I have an SSD running Windows and big HDD for data (with some empty space for linux). What's the best way to install Linux on that bit of the HDD without getting in the way of my normal Windows booting? Ideally I'd just get a quick GRUB screen that defaults to Windows or (even better) use the nice new Windows 8 bootloader.

Also, I remember hearing stuff a while back about using VMWare or VirtualBox to load up a partition as a virtual machine too (so you can boot in or visualize)? Anyone have experience with this?

Just use VirtualBox - it's free and you don't need to risk borking your system by installing another OS and trying to dual-boot.

VBox will run an ISO right from your HD, you don't even need to burn it to a DVD/USB stick.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2013 04:07

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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ViggyNash posted:

I'm not sure if this was asked before, but can Ubuntu be installed via a formatted partition on an external hard drive? I know there is a way to format a USB stick to use as a boot device to install Ubuntu, but can it also be done with a partitioned section on an external hard drive (which connects by USB, if that changes anything)?

Works fine

# ¿ Jan 31, 2013 12:52

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Can you not resize the launcher icons in 2D mode?

# ¿ Mar 16, 2013 19:56

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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AlexDeGruven posted:

Your issues sound a lot like a failing GPU.

I've had similar issues with overheating graphics cards, first due to a dead fan and second because of bad thermal compound application.

Certain versions of the video drivers either weren't kicking on features or using safer versions of other settings, which explained why some distros worked and some wouldn't. That's my theory anyway.

Bob Morales fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Mar 21, 2013

# ¿ Mar 21, 2013 17:41

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

What's the answer/accept rate on AskUbuntu compared to other StackExchange sites? 100:1?

I've answered like 15 questions lately with not single fucker accepting them. gently caress you, user203002321!

# ¿ Mar 25, 2013 20:30

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Ars has a pretty neat slideshow up that shows screenshots from the various 'buntus

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/the-flavors-of-ubuntu-from-a-to-z-or-at-least-from-kubuntu-to-xubuntu/

# ¿ Apr 22, 2013 15:13

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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Ubuntu, actually Unity. drives me nuts. Here's my object of rage right now:

All I have open is Hacker News which is a pretty drat basic website. But my Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz sits there IDLING at 25% CPU usage for both cores. Seriously? (the upticks in the graph are due to the screenshot program I used).

Bonus points if you can see how the Firefox window and System Monitor window aren't layered or composited or whatever right, Bug in either Unity or the ATI/AMD FGLRX drivers I guess.

:argh:

# ¿ May 12, 2013 20:34

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

Longinus00 posted:

If you use top you can actually see what is causing your high cpu usage instead of just wildly guessing.

It's compiz

# ¿ May 12, 2013 21:00

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

And to be clearer, it's not taking up 25% by itself, a lot of that is system monitor (yay beziers) but even still, it shouldn't take 7-10% of a (modern as of 5 years ago) CPU to basically do nothing. When I boot into LXDE the CPU is almost completely idle.

I don't mean to be that guy who spergs about 7% of his CPU being used, but it does bug me from a laptop point of view. There's heat and power being lost when you're chugging along at 10% CPU usage when it could be more like 2%.

# ¿ May 12, 2013 22:20

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

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I.W.W. ATTITUDE posted:

I, too, am pretty much an Ubuntu baby, but you may be able to find a way around this with proprietary drivers for your GMA. Maybe the (often crappy) open-source video driver provided with your distro can't support your laptops monitor for whatever reason; you would need to specify a better one manually. Try searching for 'x sever' with the lens/finder thingy.

What I'm telling you may be completely wrong, but I was able to get more functionality with my monitors in doing so. I was also using Xubuntu, though.

Try these fixes:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/229729/ubuntu-12-10-fresh-install-blank-screen-issue-with-gateway-nv7802u-laptop

# ¿ Jul 17, 2013 02:37

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 20:47

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

teagone posted:

A friend of mine had asked me to wipe their Gateway LT4004u netbook (Intel Atom 2600/GMA 3600 graphics) and install a fresh copy of Windows 7 Starter Edition. Considering the anemic specs the netbook has, I'm debating if installing Ubuntu 12.04 on it would offer better performance. She just uses it for basic web-browsing, but I've been reading that there have been issues with getting video playback to work with GMA3600, but those posts/threads were a couple months/a year or so old. Would that have been fixed by now with a driver update?

These days I don't think Linux is dramatically faster, if at all, than Windows.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2013 13:24

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