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thomas:
There is actually nothing one can do wrong installing Ubuntu. The most difficult thing that you are being asked is your name...
I begin to wonder whether you are serious about all those things you said (not only the posts on this forum). You seem to have a serious problem installing or using any kind of software.
If you are really serious and you are not making those stories up, then you should realize that Linux is not the operating system of choice for you.
You should buy a PC with Windows XP and MS Office pre-installed, and make an investment in Norton Ghost and a handful of DVDs. Or pay a CS student 50 dollars to set up your PC.
Really, you will be a lot happier.
Also, you should seriously reconsider whether C++ is the right thing for you. Java or Visual Basic might really be a better start. I am not trying to discourage you, only trying to be realistic.
Michael:
--- Quote from: thomas on March 29, 2006, 09:55:20 am ---There is actually nothing one can do wrong installing Ubuntu. The most difficult thing that you are being asked is your name...
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Here, I fully agree with Thomas :D. I have installed Ubuntu in an old computer without exactly knowing its components. It was just told me that there would be no problems for Internet. Moreover, I had not even read the installation guide and I was/am a Linux newbie. My only "problem" was during the partitioning when I have had to chose about the method. I have chosen LVM, because it sounded good :) and now it seems not so a bad choice.
May be later I will give a try to gentoo :).
Best wishes,
Michael
Pecan:
--- Quote from: thomas on March 29, 2006, 09:55:20 am ---There is actually nothing one can do wrong installing Ubuntu.
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Well said. I was plesantly surprised at the install. Not one glitch on an old dell laptop.
Ubuntu found every device and everything I had plugged into it. Including the WiFi adapter that microsoft wouldn't configure. What a surprise....
With one sentence from Yiannis, It connected to my WiFi network and I've been compiling, testing, abusing it ever since...
BeerSlinger:
--- Quote from: mandrav on March 29, 2006, 08:59:30 am ---@BeerSlinger:
Why don't you actually read what is being said here???
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--- Quote from: RJP Computing ---You can also do a "server" based install that is completely stripped down and comes with no windows manager at all.
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Ok, you got me, after 14 hours on my machine last night, I skimed his posting. I missed that he had stated that...
--- Quote from: BeerSlinger ---When the prompt came for the install type I typed “server” because I want a web server on this machine.
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:?
The server install is just an install stripped of anything graphical. You can still run a web server with the normal install...
--- Quote from: BeerSlinger ---First, it didn’t setup the root account or password.
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--- Quote ---Ubuntu doesn't use the root account for security reasons. You can still enable it later on if you really need it. But why do that? Just work as a user and if you want to do something that requires root privileges, just type sudo in front of the command. It will ask you for your password and execute the command as root...
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My last commment was because, I admit, I have very little experience in linux on either a user level or a corporate level. In that time I have dinked with 3 versions of Linux-Mandrake, 4 versions of redhat and even a real old version of slackware that worked on a x386 once. And in all that time, I've never seen the root disabled, it just seemed really illogical...
I just couldn't wrap my head around why that would happen........But I guess that's part of my nature, i'm the same with microsoft. I get more infurated by XP (especially since I've done as much hardware as i've ever done programming) because they make 5-10 steps for a process that takes 1 or two in 2000....
Nothing annoys me more then a software package that has been dummied down by a software company for the morons in the general public. That's why I swore that I would never own another OS after 2000 and i'm starting to refuse to build and reload machines with microsoft XP or any other joke after that.
Even though I can be a idiot at times, there is nothing I hate more then being treated like one....and Microsoft seems to get cheap thrills by doing so.....
BeerSlinger:
--- Quote from: thomas on March 29, 2006, 09:55:20 am ---There is actually nothing one can do wrong installing Ubuntu. The most difficult thing that you are being asked is your name...
I begin to wonder whether you are serious about all those things you said (not only the posts on this forum). You seem to have a serious problem installing or using any kind of software.
If you are really serious and you are not making those stories up, then you should realize that Linux is not the operating system of choice for you.
You should buy a PC with Windows XP and MS Office pre-installed, and make an investment in Norton Ghost and a handful of DVDs. Or pay a CS student 50 dollars to set up your PC.
Really, you will be a lot happier.
Also, you should seriously reconsider whether C++ is the right thing for you. Java or Visual Basic might really be a better start. I am not trying to discourage you, only trying to be realistic.
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Well, to be honest with you, the exact place that you telling me to go, is exactly where I have been and I’m currently trying to get out of. I started into computers in 98 after being a music major because I couldn't find any other major that suited me in the least. As soon as I started, I had a machine built for me. Not long after I worked in a computer lab for a few years and did more hardware then I ever did software.
But bear in mind, this is when the k6 was still out and AMD wasn't nearly as accepted and at that time and I could afford Intel. In that time, I didn't a lot of VB and a ton of ASP. After .NET came out I gave up programming all together and basically just about gave up computers all together because I could see where Microsoft was going and it was a place that I didn't want to go.
By then, I was just about out of college and this was after the millennium so there no longer was a job market in this area. In that time I did very little and went even no where quicker.
Right now, in the past few months, I have had more trouble with Linux because partially, I think that I have expected too much and I just don’t understand it as well as I should because all I’ve even dealt with is Microsoft. And on the other hand, if I ever had problems, I never, ever “worked the problem.” I would always fdisk the HD and kill the MBR and that would be the end of it.....worse comes to worse, if it was too big of a bother, I would just stick it in a corner and let it Low Level Format and then go back to windows 3.11, 95, 98, ME, 2000 pro/server or XP and just keep doing what ever Microsoft had developed. Well, at this point, I'm tried of doing that anymore.....
But I will admit that it’s been like being dropped in the middle of china and only knowing about 20 words of Mandarin.....A lot of the problems that I have seen and solved have usually been because I’m trying to get Linux to do something it just cannot or I just expect it to act like Microsoft and it doesn’t.
I don’t know about other people and if they would agree with this assertion, but I’ve recently come to realize that experience can not only work for you but it can work very hard against you. I just get frustrated because I’ve been so comfortable for so long, in windows, if something doesn’t work, I can explain it. But on the other hand, when something blows up in Linux, I have no clue why it is happening because I’ve never experience anything like it before; so not understanding it just drives me crazy…
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