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- pHr34kY, on 10/22/2008, -3/+41To get dugg, the title needs to be in the form "Top [number] [sensationalist adjective] [Apple/Obama/Google/Ubuntu] [plural noun]"
I would suggest "Top 7 amazing Ubuntu tips" - neasteflorin, on 10/22/2008, -1/+22Should have wrote the title to reflect the article content.
- arugge, on 10/23/2008, -0/+7That isn't totaly true. I saw an Obama uses Ubuntu story the other day in Upcoming it never made the top. Things would have exploded if it had though.
- shortyjacobs, on 10/23/2008, -0/+5I kind of like the whole terminal thing, (speaking as a "linux newbie")....brings me back to my old MS-DOS days....and it feels SO much more powerful than trying to solve stuff in Windows. I switched to Ubuntu a few weeks after Heron released, and after a few months using it, I went into a windows VM, and couldn't believe how kludgy it felt without the ability to directly type in commands and edit config files....
Of course, I know jack ***** about how to USE the terminal, and even less about how Ubuntu actually gets stuff done, so I'm about as useless as ***** on a bull when I need to solve a problem...but that's what Google and copy-paste are for. - SuicideMouse, on 10/23/2008, -0/+4DVD playback is something that you'll just have to deal with not having until you add it yourself for the time being.
The files necessary for playback are not legal to install in a large amount of places around the world so they can't just "add it in". When you install them you generally get a warning message (not a pop up error thing) stating that you agree that you won't install them if you don't have the legal right to do so, however nothing stops you from lying so everyone can still use it.
P.S. This is all off the top of my head so I may be wrong about some of the details. - Ademan, on 10/23/2008, -1/+4doing it the way this moronic article suggested IS dangerous, use
sudo update-manager -c
for ubuntu... It's the preferred method, it's supposed to be better at handling dependency issues that might arise during such an upgrade. Even still though, I haven't been terribly lucky when it comes to doing dist upgrades, both of the times i've done it have resulted in issues, although both times the fixes were rather trivial (as they usually are, knowing exactly what to do is the issue...)
I recommend setting up a home partition and a root partition, that way you can reformat and reinstall over the root partition every release, it's rather convenient even if you did a dist upgrade, since you have an easy way to fix any of the problems that might occur by just reformatting the root partition but preserving your home partition.
Alternatively, newer ubuntu releases (i know at least gutsy has this...) allow you to overwrite your root directory but preserve /home and all of its subdirectories, which allows people who didn't opt for this two partition scheme to do an essentially clean install. I can't vouch for its reliability other than by saying I've done it once successfully. (Although honestly it seems like it'd be hard for something to go wrong) - realnerd, on 10/23/2008, -1/+4On a digg on a couple weeks ago. Really guys, what the *****?
- crazlunatic, on 10/23/2008, -1/+4What a ***** title, seems almost as if the submitter purposely did this so there's no chance ever for him to reach the front page with that one
- evilgourmet, on 10/24/2008, -1/+3Good tips for fresh Ubuntu users.
- geekworking, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2I completely agree. Although not 100% complete, all of the desktop distros have invested great effort to develop user-friendly GUI interfaces to configure the system.
These new user articles that require the use of the command line really undermine the hard work done by the developers. - MadHarvey, on 10/24/2008, -0/+2You clearly don't understand the formula:
Try resubmitting as:
Top 1 Most Successful Ubuntu Users - legendxx, on 10/23/2008, -1/+3I would have gone with life-altering in place of amazing.
- volcompimp, on 10/23/2008, -2/+3FAIL
- reconsldr74d, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1Unity is good, but I'm one of those that feels that diversity is one of the great strengths of Linux and open source in general.
- cjnkns, on 10/26/2008, -0/+1I really like picasa on WIndows. On linux it just looks ***** for some reason...
- peestandingup, on 10/23/2008, -4/+5Most of these instructions for "newbies" are a big reason why Linux fails to capture any mainstream market. Mainstream users shouldnt be expected to "sudo apt-get" anything in terminal, guys. Especially things like DVD playback. Why cant you all see that?? Take your Linux blinders off for a second.
Now go ahead & digg me down for speaking the truth, cause I just know you're gonna. - kd420, on 10/22/2008, -1/+2I'll have to try the first one after doing a fresh install of 8.10; one line for all those extras, can't beat that. On a related note, does doing a distro upgrade cause any problems? I've heard it's more stable to do a fresh install, so I've been wary of just updating (seems a little _too_ easy).
- ptFoe, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1Is Google Picasa open source?
- SuicideMouse, on 10/23/2008, -1/+2These "Tricks" have been spewed over Digg more times then anyone would want to bother counting.
- Frostek, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1No.
- Twinnie, on 10/23/2008, -2/+3MP3 playback, NTFS handling, Picasa, upgrading without a CD.....? Most of this stuff should work OOTB, it certainly shouldn't need instructions.
- BlueSkyfish, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1Here it is
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Obama_campaign_is_using ... - Slinfold, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1There can not be enough tips like these,newbies need all the help they can get!
- computershack, on 10/24/2008, -1/+2Buried for being *****. I mean, come on, they're hardly a list of things that haven't been listed 1000 times before are they?
- aoctavio, on 10/23/2008, -1/+1You know how I know we are not living in a simulation?... The food would be better. - Sheldon (The Big Bang Theory)
- sublimemm, on 10/23/2008, -1/+1Just be glad there is finally some unity.
- reconsldr74d, on 10/23/2008, -2/+2I know that there are a lot of Ubuntu users out there but can we maybe get other distros to make the front page? Maybe Slackware, Fedora, or something? Maybe?
- nickert0n, on 10/23/2008, -2/+2Read this article a couple days ago, not much to it but "hey look at me"
I think every new ubuntu user should try "ubuntu tweak" for a more easier transition from other operating system's
http://ubuntu-tweak.com/downloads - southeastbeast, on 10/23/2008, -3/+2Good article, bad title.
- Mattiasg, on 10/24/2008, -1/+0This exact same list has already been posted (numerous times!): http://digg.com/linux_unix/Newbies_7_Useful_Ubuntu ...
- neasteflorin, on 10/23/2008, -3/+2Yep, I think this was on purpose.
- stutimandal, on 10/23/2008, -2/+1Dugg for the matrix screen saver.
- mrblue182, on 10/23/2008, -3/+1Thank you for not saying "7 best ubuntu tips" or something along those lines. 7 useful tips is much more accurate for almost every article.
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