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    Re: [elementary OS] A quick glimpse of elementary OS Freya

    Re. to my earlier post.
    If you haven't seen it, the bounty has now been raised to 500$
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    Re: [elementary OS] A quick glimpse of elementary OS Freya

    I used Elementary once about a year ago.

    A total buggy mess, I won't ever be using it again.

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    Re: [elementary OS] A quick glimpse of elementary OS Freya

    Quote Originally Posted by /ADM View Post
    I used Elementary once about a year ago.

    A total buggy mess, I won't ever be using it again.
    Which version? Luna is based off Ubuntu 12.04, and has been out for a while, so that should be stable (tho haven't tried it)

    If you tried the Freya beta, then yes you should've expected bugs lol, especially that early on. Even now Freya has bugs (nothing gamebreaking but alt-tabbing doesn't work properly, and a recent update broke the search function in "files".

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    It was Luna. The installer froze when trying to install it alongside Windows (this is usually a deal breaker for me), if any installer freezes or barfs during a custom partitioning and install, I write it off as a buggy mess.

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    Re: [elementary OS] A quick glimpse of elementary OS Freya

    @ /ADM
    This thread is about elementary OS Freya, please respect this, bugs are to be expected, Freya is in heavy development.
    If you have issues with Luna, please start a new thread and be specific about your bug if you want help.
    If not, I really can't see the relevancy of your comments.

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    Re: [elementary OS] A quick glimpse of elementary OS Freya

    Great news to those with a UEFI pc.
    Bug #1355698 "Unable to boot via UEFI into installed freya system" has been closed.
    So now you are able to install and boot Freya from a system with UEFI and secure boot.
    But (why does there always have to be a but ) the elementary iso has a problem still to be resolved, it does not automatically generate a 2,4MB FAT boot partition if you use the dd command or the image writer from gnome-disks ( like Ubuntu or Mint does ).
    I can recommend Unetbootin for the task, Unetbootin requires a FAT32 formatted USB-stick to work thereby ensuring that the stick will boot on a UEFI pc.

    OK, all set, here we go:
    1. Download this iso http://downloads.elementaryos.org/is...4.20141209.iso
    2. Erase any partition on your USB-stick and create a FAT32 partition using all space on the stick
    3. Get Unetbootin from here http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ or from the Ubuntu software center
    4. Launch Unetbootin and check "Diskimage", browse to your diskimage and be sure that you have selected the correct USB-drive hit ok and let the fun begin.


    If you have a Windows system you could try Rufus as an alternative too, but remember to use FAT32 as filesystem on the USB-stick

    Ps.
    Remember to do backup or be sure that you can recreate the pc using a restore media !!!
    This comes as is and without any kind of support.

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    Re: [elementary OS] A quick glimpse of elementary OS Freya

    In case you've missed it, Freya Beta2 is now released
    Go get yourself a copy !
    http://blog.elementaryos.org/post/11...beta-2-is-here
    Alternative download from sourceforge:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/elem...iles/unstable/
    Please use the torrents if possible !!
    Last edited by Stinger; February 9th, 2015 at 12:57 PM.

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    Re: [elementary OS] A quick glimpse of elementary OS Freya

    Beta 2 Freya working on Toshiba P-50 laptop with Nvidia 740M graphics card...a little slower than I'd like but still simple and elegant...
    Ubuntu Mate 14.04 LTS

    "...and you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking...racing around to come up behind you again." - Pink Floyd


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    Re: [elementary OS] A quick glimpse of elementary OS Freya

    Hi christopher9
    Glad you finally got elementary to install I think the slowness probably is due to the opensource nvidia driver or have you installed the one from nvidia ? ( nvidia-331 ).
    I think you could benefit a lot from the nvidia-331 driver and nvidia-prime, performance wise that is, as you have a pc with hybrid graphics
    Try running this command tells a lot about your graphics:
    Code:
    lspci | grep VGA & sudo lshw -C video
    Remember to type in your password when asked for.

    Ps.
    A bit more here on the subject hybrid graphics, the current situation on Linux is not ideal compared to windows, but is getting better
    Last edited by Stinger; February 13th, 2015 at 05:34 PM.

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    Re: [elementary OS] A quick glimpse of elementary OS Freya

    Installed Freya on a rescued DELL desktop system (dual core had been running VISTA) - 64-bit. Desktop effects are slow (stutter). XFCE would probably be snappier, but FREYA is beautiful. As an experiment, on the 32-bit laptop my kids use, installed FREYA via PPA (on top of Ubuntu/Unity 14.04):

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/testing
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/os-patches (I ignored all the warnings.)
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
    sudo apt-get install elementary-desktop

    So far, so good.

    * The "window overview" button is missing on Plank. Not sure how to remedy this, but may copy it over from the desktop system.
    * ⌘+S opens the app launcher.
    * ⌘+Space does nothing. Not sure how to straighten this out? Directions welcome.
    * A number of icons were missing (the right-hand button, top left, in app-launcher that switches the app-launcher to category view was missing). Installed Numix Icons as a workaround.
    * Haven't figured out how to get rid of the Unity Overlay Scrollbars.

    I know folks at Elementary don't want bug reports on PPA installations, but others might appreciate a heads up.

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