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OODA Loop

OODA Loop

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Its official, i can't go back to windows. I finally got ubuntu on my pc with some restricted drivers, and its frikin' awesome!

Just a well-rounded, fun, intuitive interface. Heck even the update manager is awesome.

PLUS, you can run the orange box on steam (and many other windows programs) without problems with wine version 1.0.

Have yall used it? if so what do you think bout it?
 
You have me very tempted to get a new HD and install that sucker. Glad you liked it.
 
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You have me very tempted to get a new HD and install that sucker. Glad you liked it.
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beware fine sir!

ubuntu isn't to friendly with custom built but works fine on mine. PLau if your not familiar with Linux/UNIX then you need to do some Google to find out about restricted drivers, and other little weird things. In the end its more than worth it :)
 
ubuntu hates my laptop architecture so I can only install a very limited selection of programs. Apart from that, it's not bad, however, I'd still take XP > Ubuntu.
 
Been a long time linux user near 5 years. Anyhow i finally put windows back on my pc for the sole purpose of gaming. Ubuntu does seem from my experience to have the best windows application support. I had almost all my steam games working, as well as oblivion with no hitch, and very little performance hitch. The only problem i did have was with my usb headset. Couldnt get it to work with games.
I do agree i prefer the interface in linux over windows. Alot of nice features. The window managers besides the default ubuntu interface, gnome, have some good options.

For those of you wanting to try it and not have to worry about messing up your hd. Get wubi
http://wubi-installer.org/
Acts like a regular windows application. At boot you have two options windows or ubuntu. Its a default ubuntu install. My dads been running it and hasn't run into too any problems.

One other thing is theres been alot of talk on various linux game sites. That valve is going to port the source engine to linux. As in hl2 games tf2 etc.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=source_linux&num=1
 
I have kubuntu as a second partition on my main pc. I also integrated linuxMCE to make a nice media setup. I also have D*** small Linux as a bootable environment for my usb stick. Big fan of Linux :)
 
I have a custom built Ubuntu box sitting right next to my gaming computer. I use it to check people on HLStatsX if I have a question about their legitimacy. Don't have the steam on it because I don't think it is powerful enough to run TF2 well. I love Ubuntu and all the free programs you can get. I just upgraded to 8.04 Hardy Heron and it is way better than 7.10. I have it set up on a dual boot with XP Home.
 
I'm currently triple booting WinXP, Ubuntu 7.10, and Fedora 9 on my desktop. Most of my time is spent in Ubuntu. I think it is a fantastic OS and I play TF2 in it quite often. I would even say that I play TF2 in it a large majority ( > 90%) of the time. I try to boot into XP as little as possible. I have been a Linux user for roughly 8 years however and have tried Slackware, Redhat/Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandrake, and a few others so I'm no stranger to Linux.

ubuntu isn't to friendly with custom built but works fine on mine.
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I couldn't disagree with you more on this statement. Go to any Linux forum (or more specifically, go to the Ubuntu forums) and start asking about hardware. I guarantee you that you will see just about every x86 processor, every motherboard brand, and so on represented. I don't know anyone that has had a problem installing Ubuntu simply because it was on a custom built system. I think it's blanket statements like this that help scare people away from Linux. I can only assume that it probably runs well on Dell systems since they (I'm assuming) explicitly tested Ubuntu on their hardware before shipping it, but that doesn't mean that it can't run on other hardware.

For those of you wanting to try it and not have to worry about messing up your hd. Get wubi
http://wubi-installer.org/
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I just read up on this and I'm intrigued. I'll have to try this and see what this does. By default, Ubuntu comes on a live CD so you can pop the CD into the drive, reboot, and it will launch and run entirely from memory. It does not touch your hard drive. Furthermore, even if you do run the installer, if Windows is already installed on the drive, then the Ubuntu installer repartitions your hard drive automatically for you. It offers a very intuitive little slider that allows you to drag it left or right (left to shrink the size of the Windows partition, and right to shrink the size of the Ubuntu partition. It of course also shows the size of the partition and the percentage of the drive). It also properly configures the menu.lst (grub's config file) for you. So you can dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu without doing anything but running the Ubuntu installer. It sets everything up for you. So I'm interested to see what Wubi does. Thanks for the link!
 
I have a Ubuntu/XP pro dual boot set up on this computer. I had Orangebox set up in Ubuntu, but was unhappy with the performance vs. XP, so I just use the XP boot as a gaming platform, while I do most of my computer "work" on Ubuntu. My laptop runs Xubuntu, and my kids computer runs Edubuntu. Plans are in the works for a Mythbuntu box as well.
 
so - those of you running Ubuntu as your regular machine...have you tried streaming media from that platform to an xbox 360 or the like? i use TVersity to stream, but i haven't looked to see if it's compatible with linux.
 
the sad thing about it is you pay half a fortune for Windows vs. nothing for Linux and Linux still kicks window's butt!
 
Do u have Beryl??? I am quad booting Black moon, Ubuntu, XUbtuntu, and Vista and i have vista start bar, Blackmoon drivers and startup, and Ubuntu beryl feature
 
i used to use ubuntu but i went back to windows. ubuntu is plain win. its so sleek, so amazing, so free xD. but i cant get TF2 standalone to run with it.
 
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i used to use ubuntu but i went back to windows. ubuntu is plain win. its so sleek, so amazing, so free xD. but i cant get TF2 standalone to run with it.
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even in wine?

try again they update it all the time
 
Do u have Beryl???
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I have never understood the point of Beryl and everyone's fascination with it. Perhaps you can elaborate? Personally I don't use multiple desktops so I don't care that it can spin a little cube around and move between them. I'm curious to know what features of it you like however.

so - those of you running Ubuntu as your regular machine...have you tried streaming media from that platform to an xbox 360 or the like? i use TVersity to stream, but i haven't looked to see if it's compatible with linux.
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TVersity is not currently supported on Mac or Linux. According to their FAQs they eventually plan on making it available however. It's possible that you might get it to run under Wine, but there are several alternatives that you might look at. Here's a small list:

http://www.webot.com
http://www.rokulabs.com/support_sb_dwnld_slimserver.php
http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de/
http://ushare.geexbox.org/

I have heard very good things about Fuppes.
 
Used fuppes for a while. Good software, however i now just let mythtv take care of upnp. I beleive fuppes in ubuntu repo.
 
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i used to use ubuntu but i went back to windows. ubuntu is plain win. its so sleek, so amazing, so free xD. but i cant get TF2 standalone to run with it.
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I got TF2 to work OK through Wine, but the performance wasn't what it should be. I know Wine says it should work, and it did work OK, but compared to native XP, I was disappointed. Oh well, that's what dual boots are for!
 
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Do u have Beryl???
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I have never understood the point of Beryl and everyone's fascination with it. Perhaps you can elaborate? Personally I don't use multiple desktops so I don't care that it can spin a little cube around and move between them. I'm curious to know what features of it you like however.
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what is beryl? you say its like multiple desktops and a spinning cube, why use something else when it works Nativity with ubuntu. Just have to enable compifusion or something like that in the administration panel and you can theoretically have as many desktops you fancy
 
i just put ubuntu on my friends laptop HDD cause apparently you cant install anything but vista on it if its in the laptop, in my comp i can put xp on it but minute it goes back it like nope bad partition so i put in ubuntu and wine, had no clue how to use either, just googled and read the help manuals on their sites and bam its so fun to use and not too bad (hard) to use.
hopefully my friend feels the same way, plus its not much different than XP in some ways.
 
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