No sane person would use XML for a config file that is almost always created/edited by humans. Except J2EE developers maybe. But that already conflicts with the "sane person" condition. — ThiefMaster6 hours ago
Yeah, MATE is cool but this is not its problem, it has nothing to do with it. You're saying that on the same machine, you get connection problems with MATE and not with other DEs? Which DEs?
There might be some MATE specific thing screwing things up but I don't really see how. This is about managing hardware and all DEs will use the same drivers etc. Perhaps you've just used MATE more so you only see the problem there?
@JasperLoy why not? It can be useful for very specific questions that have gotten a great general answer for example. Modifying the question to make it more general can help finding it.
> I know that you can press Alt + F1 after grub to open to cli, but it only stays up for a second and then it just continues onto gdm and I can' do anything.
@terdon well the answer didn't answered the question in it's original form...
he edited the question to fit the answer, but OP is not really interested in how much is Ubuntu translated, but how helpful is the community around a language
@JasperLoy the main problem is that the vast majority of users here are essentially clueless about their systems. So they upvote wrong answers and downvote good ones. sigh
@AvinashRaj remember ~/.local/share/applications/ too, as we said before. But what in the world are you doing there? Have a look at radu's answer for example
And why do you assume that Name will be the 1st or 6th line? Basically, your first awk is either harmful or irrelevant. The second is enough if you want to do it that way.
look at the name field under desktop entry, it says Videos.So videos would be the application name that was displayed while pressing super+A, not totem @terdon
@AvinashRaj what does the name field have to do with anything? And why are you all getting so worked up about this question? The answers are basically fine already.
Why? They are not remotely similar. The equivalent would be Fedora, not CentOS, that's designed for servers and extreme stability, older software etc. Who would install CentOS on a desktop?
But why not use Fedora? If you want a RH style system that is, why go through the hassle of setting CentOS up to do what Fedora, or other distros aimed at the end user, do out of the box?
I used to love SuSe before Novell bought it. Made me move to Ubuntu way back when, finally weaned me off of rpm-based distros. I'd started with Mandrake, then RH, then Fedora when that came out and then SuSe :)
@terdon Regarding your comment on this question: askubuntu.com/questions/435073/… yes, he did post the same question on Superuser Q&A as you suggested so it's safe to say it's OT for here because now he gets no display on the screen at all.
hah profile views just hit 4321 ;) anomalies are fun. anyway, i started on something rpm based... then went to a community college that did the redhat academy thing. fixed some grading scripts that were in error. and was all "They can't write grading scripts for people that pay thousands a year. Do I trust them to manage my OS?" -- No.
after fedora i was all over the place. i finally stopped on ubuntu because it just works. now it's about making all the niggly bits that i want just work on something that just works for most of my hardware.
yeah, I've been trying to install steam or debian on this one box, I think I might just install ubuntu instead an throw the steam wallpaper and plymouth theme on it
steam just worked for me... i like the idea of debian, but if i have to choose between spending 8 hours getting it the way i want, or spinning it up installing an IDE and writing something? it's not even a choice.
@hbdgaf yeah, that's how I felt the first time I tried Ubuntu. The I tried Mint wich worked much better (at least at the time) on my laptop(s). First time I ever installed a distro that had wifi out of the box.
all the niggly bits work out of the box on every mint install I've tried. Can't say that of any other distro. They focus on laptops and hardware recognition, building on the great work already done by Ubuntu
your bits and my bits are not the same. the bits i want don't work anywhere ootb
Fewest degrees of separation + xubuntu(i don't use mainline) + all the things i really need to use just work + i understand how to make things just work without that much additional work.
i'm not going to fight the unity thing. i liked xfce before unity made me use it instead of a gnome derivative. mint is just a DE for me. nothing more. and i like xfce
it's also a fork of a more than substantial code-base with not enough people to maintain it... so i'm just seeing things before they happen.
I'm very happy with my LMDE never want to go back to an Ubuntu base, but how is Mint a DE? It's just a branded Ubuntu, minimal changes, just some nice tools. They even use the same kernels and everything.
@Mateo Hey, I'm not on Mint (classic) anymore. All I know is that I stopped having to spend ages tweaking stuff for my laptop hardware to be recognized the moment I switched to Mint :)
@hbdgaf You want to count the Ubuntu inconsistencies I see on this site?
Not recommending you change, despite what some may think Linux is all about choice. You use whatever works for you. All I'm saying is that Mint has always worked better for me.
That's fair. I've run my numbers on things that just work on Debian for me vs things that work on Ubuntu for me vs things that work on Mint for me, and I found my youtube.com/watch?v=boj75h3urLU
I have told users more than once to read the arch-wiki to understand something that is not adequately documented on the Ubuntu wiki
If I didn't care about redist, I would just use arch. It would be simpler. I do though. Having millions of people able to use something is more important than getting my nerdgasm from a massively tweaked installation.
I am using wine1.7 on my laptop sony vaio whit ubuntu 13.10, and it has a lot of installation problems of missing installtion file, and hard to get install but try
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.4
sudo apt-get install winetricks
I installed then q4-wine whit works perfect, and t...
I just did under "dconf-editor", System => Proxy => ignore-hosts, the following content:
['localhost', '127.0.0.0/8', '::1', '192.168.0.1', '2000::/3']
But, Google Chrome (and "apt-get update / upgrade") is just ignoring this settings.
For example, my Proxy Server (Ubuntu with Squid3) is in d...
@NathanOsman I'm really no expert. I've used both and have tended to have better luck with nvidia is all. Is one or the other now recognized as the undisputed leader?
@terdon amd/ati has a more agnostic opencl framework with an opencl simulator for one thing. another is that it's cheaper per stream processing unit generally. another is that even linus has something to say about nvidia ;) my ati card didn't run as hot as my nvidia card...
even the guys from sandisk at defcon wanted some benchmarking software ported from the nvidia only layer to real opencl so they could compete in the "fastestr opencl grinding" competition with ati/amd
@NathanOsman - how do you find the motivation to code in your off-time?
@NathanOsman you might know, is there any stackkapp script that will let me define my own [blah] that will expand to specific links in the comments? I'd love to be able to use [xy] to link to the XY problem post on meta.so for example.
@Braiam all I'm saying is that 88 upvotes shows there is room for opinion here and you have your thing about deleting but not everyone agrees with you.
The point is that posts that should be deleted are the exceptions, not the majority.
@terdon no, you are arguing that I'm wrong at trying to delete any question that I see bad, and as you can't not agree with me, I can't agree with you that they are worth of keeping them.
I'm always talking about crap, dupes, or closed, just crap worthless questions
if I see something bad that doesn't worth to be reopened I will delete it
@Braiam No, I am arguing that you should please stop trying to convince people that your view on dealing with dupes is the official position of either the community or SE. You have your own opinions and you have every right to act as they dictate, just don't say that that is how things should be.
ahhh, i don't believe that exists, but it should given that you can in a terminal "blah" and if blah-package is not installed it tells you "perhaps you should install blah-package"
I am using wine1.7 on my laptop sony vaio whit ubuntu 13.10, and it has a lot of installation problems of missing installtion file, and hard to get install but try
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.4
sudo apt-get install winetricks
I installed then q4-wine whit works perfect, and t...
I just did under "dconf-editor", System => Proxy => ignore-hosts, the following content:
['localhost', '127.0.0.0/8', '::1', '192.168.0.1', '2000::/3']
But, Google Chrome (and "apt-get update / upgrade") is just ignoring this settings.
For example, my Proxy Server (Ubuntu with Squid3) is in d...
I agree. As far as I'm concerned, only off-topic or unintelligible questions should be deleted; duplicates are quite useful to keep around.
