Ubuntu, what to do with it?

[NeoNMD]

Its installed fully and it works.

Now what can I do with it?

Sugestions?

Its on a crappy old computer so I don't mind doing something dangerous to it if you want something testing on it.

[Max]

Open a terminal, type:

sudo rm -rf *


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[NeoNMD]

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bitch.

Open notepad and type:

suck it

then save as yourmumsawhoreandineedtoreinstallUbuntu.txt

[Payne IV]

Did you actually fall for that Neo?

[NeoNMD]

no, but i know he was trying to kill my ubuntu.

[PicoDeath]

No I will not ban Max, look at his location.

[rathat]

I only downloaded it so I could use some applications to obtain WEP keys because you need like 5 different apps none of which run good or at all on windows. But it looks nice too.

[Jaejae]

Ubuntu is awright if you are just starting, but past that, it's crap.

I learnt more in one day installing and using ArchLinux, than in the year I had been using Ubuntu.

Max, you failed, presuming he is in his home directory, that would just delete the things in there, you want to be doing that in you root directory.

rm -rf is generally bad.

the -f flag forces deletion, and doesn't prompt, and the -r flag deletes recursively.

And, there is always

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It gives you god mode.

Pretty it up, install Compiz.

Also, install cowsay.


And Toilet.


Edit: I've got no idea if the above apps are in the Ubuntu repositories, and if the aren't, there will almost definitely be a .deb package somewhere.

[mellor]

Ubuntu, what to do with it?

Format, and install Windows.

Really, I don't get what all the buzz is about any Linux distros, apart from it being free. I guess that makes it useful when you're making a system on the cheap, or in developing countries. But most people buy new computers pre-built, and they always come with a Windows OS installed anyway.

It may be less resource-intensive, but for what it makes up for in general speed it lacks in its obscure ways of doing things. Don't get me wrong, I love command line as a way of navigating as its faster, but it's generally a task-and-a-half to try and install anything, in particular hardware drivers. Everything is much easier to do in Windows, taking less time.
And it looks better.

It makes me laugh. I do computer science at uni, and my department is so anti-MS it's unreal. But then in real-world jobs where most software developers work with Windows Operating Systems, design apps for the Windows OSs and generally ignore Linux, it really does make me question why my uni has made me work under Unix environments for so long. It's only frustrating when I come to use Command Prompt in Windows and I instinctively type 'ls' and it doesn't work.

Rant Over

[PicoDeath]

Originally Posted by mellor

Format, and install Windows.

Really, I don't get what all the buzz is about any Linux distros, apart from it being free. I guess that makes it useful when you're making a system on the cheap, or in developing countries. But most people buy new computers pre-built, and they always come with a Windows OS installed anyway.

It may be less resource-intensive, but for what it makes up for in general speed it lacks in its obscure ways of doing things. Don't get me wrong, I love command line as a way of navigating as its faster, but it's generally a task-and-a-half to try and install anything, in particular hardware drivers. Everything is much easier to do in Windows, taking less time.
And it looks better.

It makes me laugh. I do computer science at uni, and my department is so anti-MS it's unreal. But then in real-world jobs where most software developers work with Windows Operating Systems, design apps for the Windows OSs and generally ignore Linux, it really does make me question why my uni has made me work under Unix environments for so long. It's only frustrating when I come to use Command Prompt in Windows and I instinctively type 'ls' and it doesn't work.

Rant Over

We have a lecturer whos VERY anti M$, we'll be using linux a lot this year so that's why I'm getting it on my laptop.