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Originally Posted by redsunrise
ok so my monitor blew up in a smokey plastic bomb... my room still smells of burining plastic..  anyway at least i was home. The monitor i got now is only running 640 by 480 or something so eveything is gigantor... lol. maybe ill get a nice new flatscreen.... (dent in my wallet) |
Huh - when I was 17 I had to scrounge components to build my own computer because my dad wouldn't buy me one. My monitor was an old B&W valve TV set with parts cannibalised from other TVs and rescued from the city dump. mumble mumble - you kids don't know how lucky you are - grumble - and we had to shovel snow to go to school and popsicles were 5c!
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all i really wanted was a system that was better than or equil to windows me. it seems that ive done more sacrificing with kubuntu than anything.
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It always feels like that at first - however, for everything you gave up, you gained something more. Mostly you didn't want to give up a certain kind of lifestyle - and that is something that
has to change.
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Firefox: i said bye bye to IE and ran firefox. its running good excepting for it crashes from time to time....it askes me to install plugins.. the tells me install failed.
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This is unusual - firefox is tres stable. You need to state exactly what you were installing, how, why, and what the exact error message was.
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Koepete - worse than msn.. lol frankly its a step back in most things compared to even msn 6.0
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Most of us won't go near MSN Messenger - the thing to focus on is what exactly you want to achieve. Do you even know if your MSN account is a pop account? Can you access it via HTML? You will not get full MSN functions back on linux in any way shape or form because microsoft will not let anyone make one. Note: you are free to return to windows anytime you want to shell out the bucks.
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Wine: i installed it. it works great for imulating insatalls... not so great with actually running the things.
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Check your exact software in winehq to see how other people have fared with it. For games, have you checked cedega?
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I have figured out how to add backgrounds and all that, not that that was a real big deal.
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Well OK ... did you look at
www.kde-look.org ?
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my speakers didnt work throught the usb plug (which came with it). i tried it on my parent vaio xp.... it worked. It also worked on my computer before.. so that elimanate sound card issues.
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Yeah - you have a special MS-only speaker set. Well done for getting ripped off. Most folk are happy with a cheap amp rig. off their existing sound-card. But if you drop an issue before you are happy with it, you have only yourself to blame.
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flash player, quick time, etc dont seem to want to install (quicktime kinda installs (it doesnt really finish.. files are there but the install says was unable to configure) but wine donesnt emulate it).
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WINE doesn't emulate anything. It
impliments the windows API in a linux/unix environment. As has been repeatedly suggested to you: look up the specific apps you want to run at winehq. For eg:
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=1029
... installing the quicktime viewer
You can run macromedia flash with firefox (with the plugin - so getting this sorted will be useful) but shockwave is not available. You should realize that firefox doesn't ship with javascript or flash enabled because these are security risks.
Have you been through
http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu:Edgy ? If you won't use the resources available to you, then you can hardly complain when you cannot do what you want.
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i must say i do like adept package manager.. helps with managing lol, go figure
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I guess you mean "apt-get" or "aptitude"? Have you used synaptic yet? Have you set up your /etc/apt/sources.list file for extra repositories (see the wiki link)?
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Java is working.... and thats a good thing. i think firefox had a default java that works because im using default settings for java now.. not sunjava that i installed earlier.
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firefox has a java plugin - install the "noscript" extension - then firefox will only run javascript on sites you allow.
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apparantly scrips cause konquerer to freeze.. a lot.
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I have that problem on some web sites too - usually there is something wrong with the javascript there (written to be used by the broken bit of IE).
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Overall: i do like the setup and system settings of kubuntu; however i dont like the amount of substituting i have to do... also being me.. playing games, being sunk into microsoft with so many microsoft things i use, etc kubuntu isnt helping me out with those that much.
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This is why we call it "micro
shaft". You have been ripped off, plain and simple. Now you are moving to a different toolkit - so the tools are not the same brand you are used to, they work different and feel different. Get used to it.
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to tell you the truth i just got annoyed with ME and wanted an equil only better sub until i save enough to buy a new discounted xp or new vista.. i know microsoft has its issues but there is a reason it is as big as it is....
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Yeah - they got their OS preinstalled to everyone's PCs right at the start, then were able to keep everyone ignorant.
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because so many people buy into them and you have a wide variety of options to use. 
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Oh no - choice is much bigger in free operating systems than in windows.
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u get a good antivirus like norton..
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Linux
is good antivirus - you don't have to pay anyone for protection when you are invulnerable
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internet seems the same to me on here than it did on my ME... no pop-ups.
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If you have access to IE on something, go to
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html in IE and in firefox and tell me if your experience is still the same.
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i may keep kubuntu anyway because the my current alternative is returning to ME... which is pretty a dead end. I really only tried kubuntu and mandriva 1.
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So far kubuntu is doing everything you have said you want except play your old windows games. You only actually listed a single game... which you really needed cedega for (I supplied the web reference ages ago). You chose to go a different way. If you don't take advise, you won't get anywhere.
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Is there a Linux OS that is as close to windows as possible? or can you think of a better emulator for windows programs other than wine. i thought it was supposed to be a compatability layer.. not an install and then have files that you cant use layer.
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Well you didn't configure it properly. You didn't use the winehq site. Of course it won't go right. FWIW: the linux distro that is closest to windows is called "Linspire"... the free version is called "Freespire". Xandros has also been mentioned, maybe SimplyMepis will be more you too (less setting up).
You get less setting up with bigger distros also - fedora and openSUSE. But these are even less like windows than kubuntu.[/quote]Heres the two things im asking for then:
More Windows Capatable:
Linux OS
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Emulator[/QUOTE]
From the list you gave, you need only to get those old windows games going. Look to cedega and QEMU. Look for linux ports of the games.
