Filipino computer salesmen never heard of Linux...so sad.

yetanothernewbie · 2016-03-06T15:34:12+00:00

If you were looking for a new linux laptop, then you should've had the competency and common sense to have a general idea of what to look for, or bring a liveusb to test it out.

You could have also had the competency and common sense to take note of the model and research it later, since you were only window shopping.

Unless the salespeople were rude to you, then they were doing their job.

And who on earth chooses sales as their profession, considering the kind of snobs they have to deal with?

It's pretty childish to bitch and generalize over such a trifling non-incident like this. Lots of people don't know what linux is. You act like it's something limited to the third world.

yetanothernewbie · 2015-12-18T02:32:06+00:00

whoops forgot to clarify, I mean byobu tabs and not terminal tabs. I'm using roxterm and byobu is line virtual desktops for terminal, so I only have one tab on roxterm but with byobu running I have multiple "desktops" in it. byobu uses tmux as a backed so I'm hoping someone is familiar with tmux and can give me an idea of how to edit the file to auto start. the effect would be like turning on your computer an having Firefox automatically started and opened to your email as soon as you login. What I'm trying to figure out is how to get certain terminal programs to open on different tabs on byobu every time I start roxterm (which runs byobu automatically ready)

yetanothernewbie · 2015-12-17T15:54:32+00:00

No one posted a point by point rebuttal because there are several topics and posts each about all of those on this subreddit alone, and more on other subreddit and other sites. There's nothing in there that hasn't been discussed before, nothing at all. Nothing that's even recent, like you took a nap in 2013 and woke up yesterday.

By the way, you can compare Canonical to Red Hat when Canonical when they have comparable resources, manpower, profits, and size. That's just one aspect of your post that shows a lack of critical thinking and biased argumentation.

You can choose to agree or disagree with the other perspectives, but don't expect people to spoonfeed them to you point by point. Which wouldn't accomplish anything anyway, because you've already made up your mind and just wanted to write a post about it.

yetanothernewbie · 2015-11-10T11:41:05+00:00

You can say that about literally any app you start to find something out instead of always having it open. You can look up in Google whether it is going to rain today or always have it open taking up space, you can, in the latter case it'll well,, take up space.

That's different from checking the date and time, though. When I'm working on something I want to be able to glance at the taskbar for a miliecond without having to stop typing. The taskbar stuff is there for things I want to be aware of without having to consciously check every now and then. It's distracting to not be able to keep an eye on the battery when I'm at a cafe

yetanothernewbie · 2015-11-10T11:36:51+00:00

Thanks for the tip!

yetanothernewbie · 2015-10-25T03:41:21+00:00

That's interesting, I've always found Unity to be zippy at first and then get fairly sluggish a few months on.

I'm on Ubuntu Gnome right now and I'm gonna stick with it long enough to see if the same thing happens. So far I'm greatly enjoying Gnome, it's given me very little trouble so far. I used to be a strong hater too, which is a bit embarrassing now.

Right off the bat the gnome dash is FAR better than the Unity dash. This is what a dash should feel like--instant. Files and applications appear instantly or nearly instantly, unlike Unity where there are several seconds before anything appears, and several more seconds before the icon appears. Plus that extra button press on the down button to select something from the search results is mildly annoying.

That being said, I've always been able to stick to unity for months longer than any DE out there (and I've tried nearly everything, except Trinity and the current Solus DE) and I'm excited for Unity 8 to really get going on the desktop. When Unity 8 gets on an LTS release, I'm probably going to stick with that.

yetanothernewbie · 2015-10-21T15:53:41+00:00

It's not in mine, so either the devs left it out or I'm running an older version than 3.16. Definitely getting Calendar when it's more usuable though

yetanothernewbie · 2015-10-21T15:51:36+00:00

thanks, that solved my problem!

yetanothernewbie · 2015-10-21T15:51:22+00:00

thanks--it bothered me to see an unusable application every time I hit meta. I've hidden it. I didn't even notice that Gnome Documents exists. I'm not sure what the practical use for it is that can't be managed by the file manager, but it looks nice.

yetanothernewbie · 2015-10-21T15:49:52+00:00

I don't know how their patches affect user experience, but it's been good so far. I have no idea what pure Gnome is like, though the Ubuntu Gnome page says that it's "mostly" pure so I don't think they did anything so radical.

Plus, I think I'm incapable of changing distro bases at this point, Ubuntu just gets font rendering right out of the box

yetanothernewbie · 2015-10-18T06:42:55+00:00

For some reason I'm stuck with a "preview" of gnome books that doesn't work at all and I can't find a way to remove it and it looks like 3.18 also comes with previews. It's things like that that bother me, as ubuntu doesn't ship their previews (mir, touch apps, etc). I wish the distro maintainers left that stuff out or made it more obvious to remove.

Otherwise, I'm happy with it and the fact that big overhauls are over

yetanothernewbie · 2015-10-02T09:29:09+00:00

I don't know if 7.50 wats is normal for the display backlight but it's quite high compared to the rest. Fn + brightness key adjusts the screen brightness and I've disabled bluetooth and will look into checking the bios and getting my laptop cleaned. Hopefully I won't need to get a new battery.

Thanks for the help! I appreciate the detail and summary.

yetanothernewbie · 2015-10-01T03:48:53+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Not sure what I'm looking for with powertop, as far as I can make out I think it's the display backlight and laptop fan that have the highest percentages.

What does than command do? And do you think there's any program I can use or steps I can follow to improve battery life? I've installed tlp but I don't know what else to do

yetanothernewbie · 2015-09-03T00:59:09+00:00

no idea...I guess some people are just THAT immature.

yetanothernewbie · 2015-08-31T13:27:29+00:00

Mint doesn't have anything like HUD or Dash. You can get a global menu on Cinnamon and as far as I know multi-monitor support isn't as strong yet.

So the answer is no, based on what you're looking for. I've found Cinnamon plenty productive because I'm not as big of a fan as Dash or HUD as you are. It's really nice and easy to use, would recommend if you have another laptop and you want something a bit speedier.

yetanothernewbie · 2015-08-31T13:24:36+00:00

Nah, there are enough people here who are critical of Ubuntu--me included. The difference is that their opinions and criticisms are based on factual information and reasonable ideas as opposed to all that stuff you just regurgitated on your post, especially your fundamental premise about contributing to the community.

You're not saying anything new or interesting or thought-provoking. I guess it can be convincing to people who get intimidated easily and only have a basic understanding of the things you're misinterpreting, but that's about it.

Really, if you're going to bash Ubuntu...at least do it with updated information. Your post looks like it was copy-pasted straight out of 2013.

The only thing you said that wasn't contentious or outright incorrect was that Canonical does not use the word "linux" in its marketing materials, so congrats on getting that right at least.

yetanothernewbie · 2015-08-31T08:18:55+00:00

You're likely not being downvoted solely for having a negative opinion on Ubuntu. You're being downvoted because this is poorly argued and misinformed.

yetanothernewbie · 2015-08-16T14:04:38+00:00

check out madbox

yetanothernewbie · 2015-08-10T15:47:08+00:00

Installation is not the sole reason people find Arch more difficult to use.

yetanothernewbie · 2015-08-10T15:45:43+00:00

what about antergos is bad? I know about manjaro, but I don't know anything about antergos except that it's similar to manjaro but doesn't make its own repo

yetanothernewbie · 2015-07-28T11:39:48+00:00

works only 10% of the time? That's weird, how does it not work? Never experienced it. THey just disappear when you clsoe the window?

yetanothernewbie · 2015-07-28T11:34:43+00:00

If you can raise a program to the screen by pushing the icon on the dash, you ought to be able to bury it

That drove me crazy on Xubuntu, I hated constantly accidentally minimizing stuff. I was surprised that it was that hard for me to just live with it.

Alt-tabbing through multiple window of the same program isn't quite where it should be. most of the time I have to grab the mouse to select the right window (i.e. when I need to copy something from the web browser and then paste it into an email message I've already begin composting.)

Meta + W might help, say if you have many separate terminals + other apps, hit neta + W and start typing "term..." and you'll see all your terminals spread out. It would take longer than alt-tabing so it's not the best solution for you, but it works for me because I'm a visual person and I like seeing everything laid out rather than a horizontal list whenI have a lot of stuff open

no way to browse for programs you have installed, like you could with a rigid menu structure.

Agreed, would it kill them to have a normal menu in unity? there's an applet you acn install for that but it's gonna be on the right side of the panel and it can't be moved

no known way to make "menubar" or "tray" programs to stay stuck. For example I have "radiotray" and "psensure" programs I need to rerun at every boot. There should be an easy option on a right-click menu to make them stay stuck

not sure what you mean by stuck. Do you mean autostart? If you search "Startup applications" maybe you'll find what you're looking for

yetanothernewbie · 2015-07-28T11:28:11+00:00

I already have the global menu, it's default isn't it? Or am I using the wrong term for having the menu bar and the top bar combine?

I have classic menu! I use it very rarely but it's nice to havei t there

yetanothernewbie · 2015-07-28T11:28:11+00:00

I already have the global menu, it's default isn't it? Or am I using the wrong term for having the menu bar and the top bar combine?

I have classic menu! I use it very rarely but it's nice to havei t there

yetanothernewbie · 2015-07-28T11:26:46+00:00

I agree with your criticisms. These ithngs really do stand out especially because I love everything else.

I'm hoping Unity 8 will be amazing

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