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ibjsb4 - I found 12.04 too slow when I last tried it. Maybe the faster unity has been backported to it?

grahammechanical - yes, ubuntu 10.04 can do all these things - that's why I'm still using...

I'm currently running 13.04 off a usb stick to give unity another go!

Definitely some improvements since I last used it - it's a lot slicker, and the dash comes up nice and quick. Search seems...

I've heard good reports about the chromebook for writers - they allow offline text editing, rapid to boot, and battery life should be good. I haven't used one, but for writing, I would recommend a...

Hi all,

I've been plagued by an intermittent boot problem which happens when booting from cold. The bios splash comes up first, there's a bit of hard-drive activity, and then it all stops with a...

For me the seed was sewn with my Amiga A1200. After the death of the Amiga system, I wondered aimlessly for years, but eventually needed a modern computer to use at university. OS-X had just come...

Awesome, thanks so much. I haven't tried this yet, but this is 1 less barrier for me to upgrade from 10.04! Maybe I'll go 12.04-Mate anyway, but just in case I go for the G3 classic.

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Not that keen on a gnome/ubuntu TBH. Is anyone really that happy with G3 anyway? I thought only fedora were really flying the flag. May be more interested in a mate/ubuntu.

Just a quick note to say that those who are looking to stream films on linux but can't because of the change to silverlight should have a look at google play, which seems to still use flash.

All...

There are plenty of people who have successfully had the windows license refunded to them after purchasing the laptop. It involves refusing to agree to the contract that comes up when you boot for...

That's interesting - what are steam going to do about this? Seems like a bad idea to pick the slowest DE for linux gaming.

A Psion Revo?

The problem I had with GS was when trying to drag files around to different workspaces - On G2 I have the 1st workspace with the folder with the files I'm working on, then I have GIMP and various...

I don't deny having this nagging feeling that as I come to the end of support of 10.04 while it is still running on my laptop something dramatic will happen (i.e. the laptop will explode) - but when...

PS I haven't tried 12.04 with MATE, but I figure that you might as well go for linux mint mate rather than faff around with installing mate on 12.04. I also wonder if linux mint mate will be a bit...

I think there are a lot of people with similar wants as myself at the moment, and I agree that linux mint mate and xubuntu are the equivalent modern distros which would be the sensible option. ...

My dearly loved Thinkpad T40 finally bit the dust recently, not because anything went wrong with it, but because a cheap laptop backpack broke it's straps while it was on my back, causing the laptop...

I posted earlier in the year about upgrading my ancient, but main, laptop from 12.04...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2010487

There were lots of good suggestions, but I thought I'd...

Ok, I upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04 fallback.

The upgrade went without any problems - but I'm finding the interface all a bit slow. Things like opening and closing applications, switching windows,...

yeti

Yep, I use four horizontally. For example if I'm creating a presentation:

1. For all the sources - pdfs/webpages
2. For the text/narrative of the talk
3. For Gimp
4. For Libreoffice Impress
...

A better solution than the one above (the date/time applet has an ugly calendar, which doesn't seem to integrate with evolution).

Got this from askubuntu:

1. Install dconf-tools (sudo apt-get...

Primary computer - 1.3Ghz Pentium-M, 256 upgraded to 1Gb, 32mb ati radeon, 1024x768, 14", 40gb -> 250gb Thinkpad T40. Coming up to 9/10 years old. Runs 10.04 fine, but don't think it'll upgrade to...

'Like'?

I think there is a continuum between the dull but chilled and the challenging but stressful. I think somewhere along that line are people's perfect job. But there are jobs which are both...

Had a go with it for a short while from USB.

Felt like a step back in time for me - was like an advanced Amiga! It booted fast, and I think you can just shut down by powering off.

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Certainly gnome-fallback is gnome3 and gtk3 based.