I Love Linux

Vista UAC is annoying but the linux password prompts are really frustrating me now, how can I reduce these prompts for only serious changes?.
 
Which distro?

In Ubuntu =>System=> Administration=> Authorizations=> find the apps you want, add yourself.
 
what are you doing that requires you to constantly enter the root password?
 
milomak said:
what are you doing that requires you to constantly enter the root password?
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I've created locations using network manager for local and international pppoe accounts but each time I launch the network manager I have to unlock it.
 
I use network manager to connect to my wireless network on fedora and it doesn't ask me for the root password. just asks for the WPA-PSK key. So not sure why on your ubuntu box it is doing that.
 
milomak said:
I use network manager to connect to my wireless network on fedora and it doesn't ask me for the root password. just asks for the WPA-PSK key. So not sure why on your ubuntu box it is doing that.
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It's ok the authorizations did the trick...

Yesterday was a bit of a challenge getting my 9600GT working again but I learnt a lot from it, figuring things out myself as well and my graphic card is working flawlessly.

Makes me feel all warm inside :)
 
i've always found great pleasure from getting something to work in linux. it gives me an amazing sense of accomplishment. especially since i've built up a personal knowledge base and now can actually try to attempt to fix things myself before turning to forums.

but even after solutions from forums, the pleasure is still there.
 
I like linux soo much. Its just I can't get it tweaked to like it enough so I can use it as the only OS on my PC.:(
 
Jitte, you people should dig out a Mandrake 8.0 or Redhat 6.0 or something old like that and see just how much you really know about Linux.

Fire up a VM and try it out, you will be amazed at what leaps and bounds Linux have come with in the past few years since the introduction of the 2.6 kernel tree.

For me personally, that was the landmark moment in desktop Linux, kernel 2.6.0!
 
milomak said:
i've always found great pleasure from getting something to work in linux. it gives me an amazing sense of accomplishment. especially since i've built up a personal knowledge base and now can actually try to attempt to fix things myself before turning to forums.

but even after solutions from forums, the pleasure is still there.
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Agree with u there the other day I got mp3 and video to play on linux and that was really fun just being able to do that. Now if I could get COD4 running...:D
 
XP running in virtualbox with guest additions flies!
It actually boots up quicker than my old XP install but then again it does not have to load drivers for all my real hardware.

Ubuntu is slowly becoming my main OS :)
 
As much as I'm loving Ubuntu on my new PC there are just 2 things that Ubuntu does badly or not at all.

PPPoE
Network manager is great for 1 PPPoE connection but If you like me and switch between local and international PPPoE connections it can be frustrating.

PVR
No decent PVR app that supports my MCE Remote and Hauppauge PVR 150 MCE TV Tuner.
Elisa comes close but if only it had TV Tuner support. :(

Edit: I'll give mythtv a shot again
 
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Today:

Wake up, PC is stuffed. Motherboard keeps dying on me.
"Oh noooes", I wail.

Then I think - hang on, this is Linux, not Windoesn't (P)OS.
Take HDD out, put into spare PC, boot.
No hassles. Not even one.
 
Moederloos said:
Today:

Wake up, PC is stuffed. Motherboard keeps dying on me.
"Oh noooes", I wail.

Then I think - hang on, this is Linux, not Windoesn't (P)OS.
Take HDD out, put into spare PC, boot.
No hassles. Not even one.
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Linux detected and reconfigured your spare PC hardware automatically?
 
d0b33 said:
Linux detected and reconfigured your spare PC hardware automatically?
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Yup. Not one ounce of problems.
Even told me the graphics card was different (NVidia), and offered to set it up for me.

Linux has the "drivers" built in - unlike Winblows.
 
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