when at first you fail...
give the f up...
I spent a couple minutes attempting to get my wireless to work.. it appears to be the same problem I had with my last debian install which means it can be fixed.. I think it only took me.. erm.. a month to get it to work.. but.... ubuntu seems to have a much nicer help doc on it and maybe if I can figure out what's wrong with me I'll find it useful.. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26623
so anyway, I started following it and had no troubles adding the additional packages but then when I was trying to copy the unzipped drivers over to the hotplug um.. well.. I had not hotplug directory.. arg.. so rather than try and figure out why I didn't have it I gave up, got drunk and went to bed..
well since then I read an article on extremeTech (see the links to the right) reviewing ubuntu and the reviewer found the KDE version to be "snappier" (Linux has three main GUIs to my knowledge, Gnome, KDE and X[something]... I personally prefer KDE (it's more windows like).. there are other places to read more about it.. [insert more places to read about it here-- f that.. check wikipedia.. ]) anyway.. between the review saying KDE was nicer and my personal preference for it.. I'm going to try and install it...
Here's how it goes:
1) I went to http://kubuntu.org/ ... the kubuntu home page.. hmm... then to the FAQ... 2from its description, kubuntu is ubuntu exactly with KDE as its GUI rather than gnome.. rock and roll.. we're still on the same page...
2) Nice.. a beautiful step by step guide... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingKDE I'll stop documenting every step assuming it goes exactly as they say it does.. once something breaks, I'll let you know you aren't the only one with that problem
{start following directions}
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Nice.. aside from a bit of alcohol induced confusion where i searched for the wrong package in Synaptic (the package manager.. in gnome, under system:Administration.. oh yeah, i searched for kde-desktop.. not the more appropriate kubuntu-desktop) anyway after teh 499mb of downloads were
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done.. (which took like 3 mins!) it installed KDE then automatically brought up a alert called Debconf which asked me which display manager i wanted! this is fing genius! now i'm clicking "kde"... lets see if i have any computer after this...
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well.. there is no smoke.. i'm still in gnome... i guess i'll restart.. the next post hopefully wil be from kde and will be regarding how well my wifi fixing is going
I spent a couple minutes attempting to get my wireless to work.. it appears to be the same problem I had with my last debian install which means it can be fixed.. I think it only took me.. erm.. a month to get it to work.. but.... ubuntu seems to have a much nicer help doc on it and maybe if I can figure out what's wrong with me I'll find it useful.. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26623
so anyway, I started following it and had no troubles adding the additional packages but then when I was trying to copy the unzipped drivers over to the hotplug um.. well.. I had not hotplug directory.. arg.. so rather than try and figure out why I didn't have it I gave up, got drunk and went to bed..
well since then I read an article on extremeTech (see the links to the right) reviewing ubuntu and the reviewer found the KDE version to be "snappier" (Linux has three main GUIs to my knowledge, Gnome, KDE and X[something]... I personally prefer KDE (it's more windows like).. there are other places to read more about it.. [insert more places to read about it here-- f that.. check wikipedia.. ]) anyway.. between the review saying KDE was nicer and my personal preference for it.. I'm going to try and install it...
Here's how it goes:
1) I went to http://kubuntu.org/ ... the kubuntu home page.. hmm... then to the FAQ... 2from its description, kubuntu is ubuntu exactly with KDE as its GUI rather than gnome.. rock and roll.. we're still on the same page...
2) Nice.. a beautiful step by step guide... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingKDE I'll stop documenting every step assuming it goes exactly as they say it does.. once something breaks, I'll let you know you aren't the only one with that problem
{start following directions}
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Nice.. aside from a bit of alcohol induced confusion where i searched for the wrong package in Synaptic (the package manager.. in gnome, under system:Administration.. oh yeah, i searched for kde-desktop.. not the more appropriate kubuntu-desktop) anyway after teh 499mb of downloads were
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done.. (which took like 3 mins!) it installed KDE then automatically brought up a alert called Debconf which asked me which display manager i wanted! this is fing genius! now i'm clicking "kde"... lets see if i have any computer after this...
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well.. there is no smoke.. i'm still in gnome... i guess i'll restart.. the next post hopefully wil be from kde and will be regarding how well my wifi fixing is going
posted by m at 6:51:00 PM
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