QUOTE(stanleyshyeoh @ Aug 18 2007, 01:13 AM)
Damn right, I nearly fainted. The dizzy spell continues until today, even after a week of using it. Let's recount the hiccups I get:
- Adept Package Manager fumbles whenever an update package fails to download completely. There are times when you just have to use the console, login as root and manually delete partially downloaded installation file. Thanks to Streamyx, that adds to the problem.
- downloaded some avi's? can't play it out-of-box, have to install some 'restricted' codecs. RMVB? I get video, no audio. Fixed it by manually editing configuration file. My next problem yet to solve, can't play x264 mpeg4 files.
- if you've got a USB external HDD formatted in NTFS, gotta install ntfs support package.
- powering off PC, sometimes can sometimes cannot.
Many more tiny tiny annoying stuff. If not for the speed I get in KTorrent, and the peace of mind of not worrying about malwares, I dunno how I could tolerate.
how do you install your software? the only things i use would be "Add/Remove", Synaptic Package Manager, and apt-get and deb package files. i've only compiled 1 program which is vlc0.8.6c
all you have to do is figure out how to use the installer. gstreamer good,bad and ugly should do this for you. if not use the synaptic package manager and search for 264 and install that as well. its also good to install mplayer eventhough you dont want to use it.
it literally takes 5 minutes or less to set up ntfs write support using the "add/remove"
im not sure what trouble you are having with shutting down your pc. refer to ubuntuforums.org though im sure people here will help you if we can.
i understand where you are coming from. the most minute things can be a problem and annoy even me. like my side buttons on my mouse not working in firefox, or settingup my grubscreen to boot to what i want but all it takes is some time and google. a lot of it can be found on ubuntuguide.org
but to be honest i think you are being overly critical. maybe its hard to realize it in windows because we are all so used to it, but it doesnt come with h.264,rmvb, mov and tones of other codecs aswell. every OS has their quriks. mac OSx annoys me when you cant force to show hidden files unless you type something in the shell (and thats OSX!)
Added on August 18, 2007, 2:19 amQUOTE(welwitchia @ Aug 18 2007, 01:21 AM)
If u can't boot into the GUI and u'r Xconf is messed up try :
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
at the recovery console and try to reset u'r settings. I've tried that a million times last Saturday to get Ubuntu to run at 1920 * 1200 res. These things are supposed to be easy but apparently not. Oh well, at least its working now. If only Ubuntu runs Photoshop CS..then i won't need to boot back into Windows.
supposedly photoshop7 runs perfectly under wine. and cs has been known to work.
but then again i dont really trust wine myself. one of the few reasons i switche back to windows
This post has been edited by praveenmarkandu: Aug 18 2007, 02:25 AM 
Jul 30 2007, 10:16 PM, updated 18y ago
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but 30 days trial only... thx anyway
today running like turtle ..wth!! 
but the files transfer is so slow man... 500kb/s 5x faster than my internet ?
other application like samba use debian package too?
..found it in ubuntu forum (used the whole morning) 
is there another way around? to straight store downloaded files in there....?.....
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