Now dual-booting Ubuntu and Win7 instead of just the WUBI install.


Now dual-booting Ubuntu and Win7 instead of just the WUBI install. Holy christ-on-a-pogo-stick Ubuntu is blazing fast. I don't think I'll be going back to Windows very often.

Android got me into wanting to tweak my devices and make them my own. I've never really done that with a PC before, so this is pretty freakin' cool.

#ubuntu   #android

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  1. Andrew MAugust 5, 2012 at 12:59 AM

    I might recommend gnome 2 with compiz maybe instead of unity if you want to really go crazy.

    And welcome to the world of doing stuff so fast you end up staring at the screen for 5 seconds waiting for stuff to be done not realizing it's been done for the last 4 seconds.

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  2. Keith J DaviesAugust 5, 2012 at 1:23 AM

    I'm trying to remember why I typically boot into Windows on this box.

    I think it's because I've got cygwin on this box, and a Linux box in the corner that I can run all my X apps on... but I don't do so much any more that specifically needs Windows.

    I think it's just momentum, I can't be bothered to do the work needed to get this box to dual-boot.

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  3. Andrew MAugust 5, 2012 at 1:25 AM

    Steam us the reason I still boot windows :(

    But not for long.

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  4. Jesse MorganAugust 5, 2012 at 6:34 AM

    As someone who's been using linux since '99 and linux exclusively since 2003, it seriously warms my heart to read things like this.

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  5. Casey G.August 5, 2012 at 8:35 AM

    Steam will be nice. But most of the games I've got are from the Humble Indie Bundle, and all of those have Linux versions so I just need to download them.

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  6. Corey ThuenAugust 5, 2012 at 8:06 PM

    Enjoy tweaking it. That's the best part of linux. Feel free to hit me up if you run into anything 2 minutes of googling can't solve.

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  7. Casey G.August 5, 2012 at 9:05 PM

    Thanks, Corey Thuen. How about getting Java to work? I installed Open JDK and IcedTea whatever, but it still doesn't seem to be working.

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  8. Corey ThuenAugust 5, 2012 at 10:36 PM

    You're probably better off with the Oracle proprietary binaries.

    http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install-oracle-java-jdk-7-in-ubuntu-via.html

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  9. Casey G.August 6, 2012 at 6:39 PM

    Corey Thuen that seems to have done the trick!

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