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post #61 of 66
5/13/10 at 8:14am
Yes, KDE is the more common desktop here. Not really surprising since KDE was founded by a German developer and became popular alongside with SUSE.

However, I'm a fan of GNOME 2 since I started using Linux. It got a bit of Apple's simplicity and a bit of the familiarity of Windows. Thus, it's Ubuntu for me.
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post #62 of 66
5/13/10 at 10:37am
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Yes, KDE is the more common desktop here. Not really surprising since KDE was founded by a German developer and became popular alongside with SUSE. However, I'm a fan of GNOME 2 since I started using Linux. It got a bit of Apple's simplicity and a bit of the familiarity of Windows. Thus, it's Ubuntu for me.
Same here. I love KDE apps, but don't care for the desktop. To cantankerous, too much like Windows lol. I'd much rather use a dock and application launcher than an overly complex start menu setup.
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post #63 of 66
6/1/10 at 4:33am
running the demo now off a USB drive...impressed.

I have the guy coming in tomorrow to do the full install - I would have done it myself, but I have three partitions on here and am being super careful about protecting them. One stage in there (where I select the partition to install on to) was a little unclear. Basically I want to wipe 9.04, install 10.04, but the options there had me scratching my head a bit. Better to pay someone to not mess it up.

But...impressed.
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post #64 of 66
6/1/10 at 11:23am
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Yeah, unfortunately the standard "easy" partition manager doesn't let you wipe a current ubuntu install replacing it with the new one, instead it wants to install them side by side. You'll have to choose the manual option, and delete the 9.04 partition yourself, and tell it to make a new one with that freed up space. No biggie really, but if you are unsure you should definitely ask for help. I've accidentally deleted a few partitions I meant to keep with the Windows partition manager in my day, not cool. It's really not difficult, but since it's unfamiliar territory, help or a good tutorial is a great safety net. I think you'll like 10.04 and good for you keeping 9.04 and skipping 9.10. Trying to run 9.10 was 6 months of frustration. I decided to no longer waste my time with experimental releases and am going to stick with 10.04 for its full run. It's tough, as a long-time Windows user, to resist the urge to try out every new feature. I've gotta fight it I'm not even going to update programs unless they are updated in the repositories now either.
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post #65 of 66
6/2/10 at 12:06am
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Yeah, unfortunately the standard "easy" partition manager doesn't let you wipe a current ubuntu install replacing it with the new one, instead it wants to install them side by side. You'll have to choose the manual option, and delete the 9.04 partition yourself, and tell it to make a new one with that freed up space. No biggie really, but if you are unsure you should definitely ask for help. I've accidentally deleted a few partitions I meant to keep with the Windows partition manager in my day, not cool. It's really not difficult, but since it's unfamiliar territory, help or a good tutorial is a great safety net. I think you'll like 10.04 and good for you keeping 9.04 and skipping 9.10. Trying to run 9.10 was 6 months of frustration. I decided to no longer waste my time with experimental releases and am going to stick with 10.04 for its full run. It's tough, as a long-time Windows user, to resist the urge to try out every new feature. I've gotta fight it I'm not even going to update programs unless they are updated in the repositories now either.
ya, and I don't want to dick around with it either. It's my work computer, full of work data and work emails and so on. It's backed up pretty well, but I don't want to take the risk with it, plus, even from the backups, the restoring takes forever and is a pain in the ass.
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post #66 of 66
6/2/10 at 5:41am
http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/9701...ows_sucks.html
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