56k warning. Linux, features that you may have not known about.

[but2002]

Originally Posted by PS

To address your Firefox problem, this may be dumb, but have you tried reinstalling? If that doesn't work, try deleting the .firefox directory in your home directory (make sure to back it up, as this will delete your settings). Also, check all packages related with Firefox and make sure they're working fine. As for aMSN, why don't you try pidgin? It's one of the most popular IM clients for both Windows and Linux, and it supports MSN chat.

And as for your PSP problem, it sounds like a permissions issue. If you REALLY can't find any fix for the "read only" thing, either access it as root:

$sudo nautilus

or just modify your files through your terminal as root using the sudo command, and if you don't want to do that, you can change the permissions for PSP with

$sudo chmod -R 777 /directory/of/your/psp

And why use Notepad++ through WINE? There are so many text editors made for Linux that are used for coding. For example:
- Gedit
- Mousepad
- nano (through terminal)
- vi (through terminal)

The first two are GUI based and support word wrapping, line numbering, and even automatically recognize commands in coding and color code commands.

And lastly, for your speed issue, are you using a window manager such as compiz? This uses up more resources than a smaller window manager such as Fluxbox, Openbox. Speed comes at the expense of less eye candy (though you can still make the *box window managers look as awesome as a compiz desktop). Also, make sure to uninstall unnecessary packages.

If none of this fixes your speed concerns, make sure you are updated to the latest Ubuntu. Maybe a reinstall is in order? If you're that desperate, why not try a more lightweight distro such as Arch, or if ease of use is your concern, try Vector or Crunchbang (which is based off of Ubuntu, but uses the Openbox WM), or Fluxbuntu which I've never tried (based of of Ubuntu but with the Fluxbox WM).

Hope this helps.

I hope you realize you're 7 months late

[NoEffex]

I somehow don't think he did.

Anyway, noting that, if you have glitches, it isn't "Linux's" fault, it's probably the distributions "fault" and can almost always be fixed by doing something.

For example, on debian, I get no xorg whatsoever by default, no wireless, nothing. This is because my wireless card is b43 and my gfx card is nvidia. So, all I have to do is install my kernel sources and then install nvidia, then install b43. It isn't debian's fault, it isn't Linux's fault, that is my computers fault for using proprietary stuff.

When it comes down to it, if you have a problem, google it!.

Fixes like every problem.

[PS]

god dammit i should read dates

[quote=NoEffex]it isn't "Linux's" fault, it's probably the distributions "fault"[/img]

SECONDED FFS

If only everyone had that mindset, there would be less idiotic questions and statements turning up. I also hate people who think Linux is Linux, as in, they tried one distro and they think that's Linux. For example, I was talking to one of my friends and I recommended Arch Linux to him, he responds with, "How is it different from regular Linux?". I had no idea what he meant by "regular Linux", and when I found out he was talking about Ubuntu, my blood pressure rose to dangerous levels.

[NoEffex]

Originally Posted by PS

god dammit i should read dates

SECONDED FFS

If only everyone had that mindset, there would be less idiotic questions and statements turning up. I also hate people who think Linux is Linux, as in, they tried one distro and they think that's Linux. For example, I was talking to one of my friends and I recommended Arch Linux to him, he responds with, "How is it different from regular Linux?". I had no idea what he meant by "regular Linux", and when I found out he was talking about Ubuntu, my blood pressure rose to dangerous levels.

You hit 'er right on the money. My problem isn't that people think Ubuntu is Linux, they think that Linux is Ubuntu, the poorest excuse for a distribution(IMO). The thing fails in so many levels aside from the wubi installer. I installed all their build-essentially tools, gcc, etc from their repos, installed something from source(I think it was actually the pspsdk) in the correct place and everything, and it broke it. Some how, some way.

/vent

[dracule]

Originally Posted by NoEffex

You hit 'er right on the money. My problem isn't that people think Ubuntu is Linux, they think that Linux is Ubuntu, the poorest excuse for a distribution(IMO). The thing fails in so many levels aside from the wubi installer. I installed all their build-essentially tools, gcc, etc from their repos, installed something from source(I think it was actually the pspsdk) in the correct place and everything, and it broke it. Some how, some way.

/vent

what ubuntu DOES have going for it is that it has the LARGEST user base... hands down. nothing else comes close.

Chances are if you need to install something several people on the forums have installed it, know how to install it, and fix problems that arise.

ubuntu-forums is probably one of the most powerful help forums out there for linux. hell Im sure that someone has setup there own repo for the pspsdk lol. you just dont find that kind of breadth in terms of user support with any other distro.

one of the main problems w/ ubuntu is that now they have so many users it is hard to make radicle changes to the UI or anything else to improve it. They are kind of turning into google in that regard (google wont change anything on their website design... even by a few pixels.... without thouroughly testing customer satisfaction).

[NoEffex]

Originally Posted by dracule

what ubuntu DOES have going for it is that it has the LARGEST user base... hands down. nothing else comes close.

Chances are if you need to install something several people on the forums have installed it, know how to install it, and fix problems that arise.

ubuntu-forums is probably one of the most powerful help forums out there for linux. hell Im sure that someone has setup there own repo for the pspsdk lol. you just dont find that kind of breadth in terms of user support with any other distro.

one of the main problems w/ ubuntu is that now they have so many users it is hard to make radicle changes to the UI or anything else to improve it. They are kind of turning into google in that regard (google wont change anything on their website design... even by a few pixels.... without thouroughly testing customer satisfaction).

Fedora's catching up, actually. I know I couldn't find any real help on their forums other than "run dpkg -c" or whatever the stupid command was the print the errors when something major broke. They are good with themes and simple problems(ie bad repo) but when it comes to real problems(ie broken libc6) they can't help much.

Debian on the other hand is fantastic. Since I don't like Ubuntu much, I figured Debian would be garbage too, but after trying it out the thing is rock solid. Only thing I did was upgrade to testing repos and ONE package broke, dbus, and it was on a bug report literally 5 minutes after, and I was able to fix it(Installed in the wrong directory).