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There's an Ubuntu wiki (but I started using the Arch wiki to solve my doubts even before using Arch Linux, a matter of taste I guess.)


No, Arch is more similar to Ubuntu than to LSF, it's a...

If you want Unity you should use Ubuntu. Unity has not been designed with portability in mind and although there are some experimental ports for Fedora, OpenSuse and Arch, one shouldn't expect them...

I just wanted to tell you that I fully understand your initial reaction, and also that I appreciate your later message, but in your spontaneous answer you said something that is very meaningful, and...

Well, I think that both the state of two competing projects and the state of the relationship between Ubuntu and the rest of Linux related projects are interesting, worthy of discussion, and relevant...

This shouldn't be understood as "don't go to porn sites" as many people think, but as "don't allow advertisement servers run random code in your browser"

I found this in Slashdot. Does it answer any of the questions?
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3639581&cid=43430347

If I undertand it correctly patching Wayland for every binary driver...

Precisely, the article I linked has been written by the Jolla engineer that develops libhybris, I'll quote the Ubuntu-related part:

I thought that Mir's strongest selling point was that it would eventually be possible to use Android drivers with it. So this article was an eye opener for me:
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My guess was wrong, you do have the exact version of firefox required by firefox-globalmenu, and that error was probably a side effect of the mess, not the cause. In fact, if I had read your first...

So true. I agree that having too many elements that you don't need in a GUI will make it more difficult to use, the problem is that if the developer decides which elements should go away she might be...

Firewall?

Microsoft Security Essentials. Does the work, it's free (beer), no ads, relative low footprint.

Go to System Settings > Startup/Shutdown to see if there's something there that would explain why Nautilus starts.

If in "Session Management" you have "Restore previous session" (which is default...

It looks like a dependency conflict to me. It seems that firefox-globalmenu depends on an exact version of firefox but you have a different one available.

To see what version of firefox you have:...

firefox-globalmenu detatches the firefox menu to put it in Unity's top bar (And in KDE there is also a plasma widget called globalmenu, I think, that shows menus detatched from their aplications).
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It looks like Kwin is not running, apparently that can happen when you install KDE on Ubuntu, instead of installing directly Kubuntu. Check this thread:...

Yes, http://susestudio.com/

Yes, it is possible. There is a Plasma Activity, installed by default, that behaves exactly that way.

If you haven't investigated yet the Plasma Activities, have a look to this article:...

The authors of Machinarium made another full length game called Botanicula: http://botanicula.net/

People should stop using this "if you don't like it you should use it more" argument. I can't fully express my feelings about this argument because I am a gentleman and this forum has a code of...

KDE (and Gnome, and Enlightenment and and and) will continue with the years long work on Wayland, and won't change their plans unless they see Canonical deliver. Seems very reasonable to me.

Mir...

The funny thing is that when Ubuntu was concentrated in polishing and Marketing they did a fantastic job, who can deny that? If you wanted to hand a Linux CD to friend who knew nothing about Linux,...

I read in the documentation that MPD can create an http stream that you can open with any music player, or even another mpd server:
http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Configuration

Oh, there are Android...

I don't have a clue about how that could be done, but I love to speculate:

KDE is considering replacing the Display Manager, KDM probably won't make it in the transition to Wayland. The...

Red Hat might have done more for Ubuntu than Canonical themselves.

Canonical is nowhere to be seen in the Kernel development:
http://go.linuxfoundation.org/who-writes-linux-2012

Canonical made...