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My customer has a Lexmark X4690 printer attached to his Dell PC running Ubuntu Linux 12.04.1 LTS.

We followed the instructions in this thread following the link to Lexmark's webpage. Regardless...

My report on Flash-Aid and the Flash player in general:

I followed the instructions given and removed all installed copies of Adobe-*. Tested the result by opening Youtube in Firefox: no videos...

Yeah, a slight correction on the location. Put a leading forward slash / before usr like:


/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer

That should work.

I'm getting the same "Smurf effect" as everyone else.

What's interesting is the small preview in Youtube. Move the cursor along the bottom of the video's play line and a small courtesy preview...

Seems the folders have been moved to this location:

archive.canonical.com/dists/

Added to the tutorial how to modify one's sources.list if the Ubuntu we're running is old and the repositories...

Hmm, now I understand.

Okay, I see you posted this and were promptly ignored. Sorry about that.

Have you managed to get things working since this time?

It sounds like you did a system...

Thanks for that personal experience, Ultra. Clearly your personal experience shows how Microsoft's terror of someone using their O/S without paying for the license has made this massive corporation...

No malware at all on any Windows machine you've owned? That would seem to be a first. My Windows boxes pick up malware just from surfing the Web, like everybody else's. I think there may be...

I guess that GNU/Linux isn't a particular product. It's not like a certain type of car or curious new brand of cheese you might find on a supermarket store shelf who's colorful packaging catches your...

The question put to us in this thread is:This is a valid question. I could answer it using analogies:


Why use a motorcycle when you have a car?
Why use a plane when you have a helicopter?
...

Excellent post and excellent point!

I do appreciate the "cutting edge" of Linux. I use Inkscape as a graphics tool and this tends to force my hand to the latest Ubuntu release. I also have some...

Mkay, that sounds like a reasonable suggestion. So, what's on the table before me?


A freshly installed copy of Ubuntu 11.10 (like many others my experience went from 10.10 to 11.10).
A...

I failed to add a clause that was rattling around in my mind. It must've fallen out and landed on top of my printer. Oh, here it is, the unpublished missing part:

"Because of the free nature of...

I'm not going to defend or put Unity/GNOME3 down. I'm going to say what I believe is going to happen. Simple as that.

1. Canonical and GNOME are not deaf. Yes, they have their development ideas....

Hear, hear! I agree with Tim on this one.

My neighbor bought a nice, fancy HP PC and Printer based on my recommendation. It came with Windows Vista and a companion Windows 7 upgrade DVD.

We sat...

Who knows? At this stage in the game it's quite possible GNOME will lean over and look at Unity. They might pick and choose some of what Canonical has put together and stick it in Gnome3.

We might...

If I paid for Ubuntu like suckers pay for Windows then I'd complain long, loud and hard about Unity. Since it's free I haven't issued a complaint. I've said I'll wait for the next release.

But...

Hey Bill;

I'm in the "I dun wanna use Unity" camp too.

However, I'm also one of many who've decided to wait until 11.10 comes out. We'll see what advances Unity takes. After all, I personally...

Rage-quitting is never a good plan.

And leaving GNU/Linux for Windows to avoid such drastic UI changes is the height of irony. First, you'll have to wrestle with the Windows UI as opposed to...

This is how I see it.

Ubuntu -- from Warty Warthog to Maverick Meerkat -- went through slow but steady UI changes. Nothing drastic from release to release. Essentially this was because GNOME...

Fine. My point was that Canonical was committed to supporting their last LTS (Lucid Lynx, 10.04) until its end. How many more times they offer the "Classic look" is unimportant.

As was commented...

@ Joe of loath:

April, 2013. Canonical is committed to supporting the Gnome2 desktop environment for that long.

If this is the case, it's quite possible Canonical will include the Classic...

Clearly you missed my point. Perhaps I didn't word it well.

1. Canonical/Debian/Gnome know what the support time is for GTK2. Clearly it's long enough that Canonical included the Classic Desktop...

From 11.04 to 12.04 is 30 months? Are you being deliberately provocative?

Ubuntu currently (11.04) supports the "Classic Desktop". So this "unsupported" software is getting 6 months support. And...

Do I want Unity to be the default desktop?

Hmm.

I'm disappointed that Unity was made the default desktop.

One of Ubuntu's "selling" features was its tiny, subtle UI changes since 5.04. Unity...