Ubuntu is SWEET

[Telume]

I've recently gotten a Dell Inspiron Mini with Ubuntu on it and I gotta say that I LOVE this OS.

[abunaidesu]

Nice. Do you have a screenshot? I hope you're into customization as much as I am

[Telume]

Yeah I have screenshots of both laptops actually (I just got a Toshiba Satellite with Vista which I reformatted and endowed with OpenSuSE 11.1)

[abunaidesu]

i actually meant post a screenshot, but okay

[Telume]

Oh okay well

Netbook Desktop: (Ubuntu)



I have a toshiba with openSuSE as well.

Desktop:



Cool no?

Oh and they're both GNOME. I tried KDE on my toshiba it messed up quite a few things. So I reinstalled with GNOME and it works wonderfully.

[Weasel Overlord]

I agree with title. Ubuntu IS sweet. Unless you want to run Photoshop... in which case, it sucks balls. I'm having to install Windows onto my external just so I can run CS2 without it lagging and breaking down and generally being a gimp.

Tel, which customisation thingy do you have enabled to get that cool black top and bottom bar? It looks more stylish than the boring old white.

[Houndoom_Lover]

Pfff, I heart GIMP. Its free and funny.

I'm goingto have to look into this. I may need a new computer-face ^w^.

[Telume]

The theme itself is called Azenis, which comes with an Icon pack that goes along with it. (And quite nicely) but I prefer this other icon pack I have.

Also: If you can't run a windows program, usually I just use the RDC client for linux, its how I work on DreamWeaver CS4 using Linux. I still have a desktop with XP on it so I'm good.

And one last thing: The theme on my main laptop is a snow leopard look-alike.

[Clark]

I installed Ubuntu a few weeks back after Vista crapped out on my desktop, haven't really done anything to it other than keep the packages updated. Just put my 5th hdd in so I'll be installing 7 and Slackware13.0 on other 2 to try them out.
My laptop looks a lot like snow leopard...probably because it's a macbook pro. :3

[Telume]

I actually have a crapload of fun messing with my desktop themes. I wish someone would put out a full working snow leopard theme for GNOME. it would be SWEET.

And I mean panel and everything, not just look. If someone did that, I would die happy. Most of the snow leopard clones work but there are certain things missing. Like one had the panel but it didn't work the way it should have. Or missing icons....

[abunaidesu]

why would you bother with a clone

just install the real os

[Weasel Overlord]

Well, safe to say I tried every possible solution for getting CS2 to run on ubuntu, to no avail. Ended up partitioning my laptop and reinstalling XP on a really tiny side of it just for Photoshop, lol. It's so slow and disgusting. Yuck, windows. I tried using Wine (even up to the brand new beta packages) and it was so unbelievably laggy, it was terrible. Plus, since it wouldn't let me have a desktop icon, I kept having to go into the root folder to start the .exe file, so every time I went into CS2 all my settings were gone and everything was reset. ><

I'm attempting to persuade one of my housemates to install ubuntu - her laptop is worse than mine was, in terms of being sloooooooooooooooooow.

[Telume]

In my case it's not a clone it's just a remote connection to my desktop

Weas: Ubuntu runs on anything, matter of fact I ran openSUSE on my ancient 4GB comp that had Windows 95