Topic: I'm upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10, fora!

Meta !PARAdoxiHw started this discussion 13 years ago #32,373

I started with the Ubuntu 10.04 beta, so incidentally I've been using Linux about as long as I've been using Minichan. This will be my 6th iteration of Ubuntu. And yes, I know you'd like to interject for a moment.

I feel at peace, because between my laptop, my phone, and my tablet, all of my computing devices are running a Linux kernel.

Morbid !X1WYwquTXU joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 48 minutes later[^] [v] #452,586

That's great. Enjoy your lack of compatibility with the majority of the computing world.

Geen !pFNWNYROxA joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 5 seconds later, 48 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #452,587

I use aBlackberry because I am business professional.

Consider how much efficient I twat cone now.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #452,602

@OP
Why not wait for 14.04 and stay with an LTS?

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 8 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #452,693

> expect meta
> get meta

also what @previous (D) said, stick with LTS and use back ports and other repos for newer shit thats not in the LTS repos

squeegee joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 3 hours later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #452,706

I liked fiesty fawn, but it wouldn't run anything but open office and flv player.

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 day later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #452,867

@452,586 (Morbid !X1WYwquTXU)
I know what you mean. It really sucks that Windows can't run Android apps.

BTW, I use Ubuntu too and it's totally great.

(Edited 1 minute later.)

h !utWEud8dUs replied with this 13 years ago, 7 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #452,936

I am about to upgrade to 13.10, wish me luck, fora!

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 days later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,280

Sure wish Ubuntu phone was more than overhyped vaporware.

Metæ (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,285

@previous (H)
Me too :(

I doubt it will ever go anywhere: OEMs and carriers aren't interested in a niche OS when there's piles of cash from the Android gravy train coming in.

@452,586 (Morbid !X1WYwquTXU)
What lack of compatibility? I can do everything I want to do with my computer. I can even run most Windows apps in WINE. I'm not much of a gamer so I don't care about the lack of Linux

It's true, I can't (natively) run Windows apps, but there's a Linux app for everything I want to do, so who cares?

(Edited 2 minutes later.)

Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 day later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,471

@previous (Metæ)
I couldn't get Netflix to run on 13.10 so I am installing 12.10 as I type this.

Anonymous D replied with this 13 years ago, 23 minutes later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,474

@previous (I)
Oh, getting Netflix to run is a WINE thing. I just went through that trying to introduce a friend of mine to Mint. Oh, and it's bad. Lag, lag, and more processor lag. So, if you want Netflix fun, go Windows or OSX, until they figure it out. If you're main reason for not using a GNU/Linux distro is that you can't use Netflix, then you probably don't need to be using it.

Anonymous C replied with this 13 years ago, 11 minutes later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,475

@previous (D)
I have other devices for Netflix, but for convenience I want to able to watch from my laptop also.

I'm about to get it working anyway.

Anonymous D replied with this 13 years ago, 6 minutes later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,476

@previous (C)
Yay! Let us know how that goes. I've run some flavor of GNU/Linux for the past decade and pretty much watched whatever I want to whenever.

Anonymous C replied with this 13 years ago, 6 minutes later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,477

@previous (D)
IT works! Downgrading to 12.10 fixed it.

I'm using pipelight for silverlight in any linux browser.

(Edited 3 minutes later.)

r04r !GETFUCKED joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,486

@453,474 (D)
For netflix on linux I suggest trying the chrome browser and spoofing the user agent of a chromebook. I am not actually sure if it works, but netflix has a special html5 mode for chromebooks (which is linux). The user agent for my chromebook is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS armv7l 4731.47.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.41 Safari/537.36

r04r !GETFUCKED double-posted this 13 years ago, 22 seconds later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,487

@453,477 (C)
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Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,494

@453,486 (r04r !GETFUCKED)
I'm using this for Netflix on Ubuntu which works flawlessly. http://www.compholio.com/netflix-desktop/

Beware, it runs on top of wine though. Some people don't like to 'taint' up their Ubuntu box like that.

r04r !GETFUCKED replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,495

@previous (K)
It's great that that works, but it's a hack. And wine tends to add significant overhead. I do wonder if the html5 thing works on non-chromebook computers, guess I'll try it tonight.

Anonymous L joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 3 hours later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,500

@previous (r04r !GETFUCKED)
I would try, but my Netflix subscription ran out yesterday and I'm not renewing it.

Somebody commented with this in the comments of Google's initial HTML5 Netflix announcement: https://plus.google.com/+chrome/posts/GNsoSDLRRY6
> I happened to be working on a project with several Raspberry Pi's atm and i did a quick check by changing the user agent string in chromium on a raspberry pi to...
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; CrOS i686 9.10.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/ 4.0.253.0 Safari/532.5
> Then loaded nextfix (a bit slow on a 700mhz cpu) the returning error was...
> Netflix Video Player Unavailable Error Code: 3 Our apologies - we cannot find the Netflix Video Player on your Chromebook. Please ensure you are not in a Guest Session, your device is not set to Developer Mode, and the Netflix plugin is enabled. If you have enabled Plug-in "Click to Play" in Content Settings, be sure to allow an exception for netflix.com If this problem persists, please update your Chromebook from the "About Chrome OS" menu.
> http://i.imgur.com/39Uh8K5.png

Have you tried yet?

r04r !GETFUCKED replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,501

@previous (L)
I have not, but that sounds like some special APIs (read: DRM) are getting used. Lame.

(Edited 11 seconds later.)

Anonymous K replied with this 13 years ago, 15 minutes later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,504

@453,495 (r04r !GETFUCKED)
You need this then. http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/pipelight-use-silverlight-in-your-linux.html

Protip: it still uses wine to run silverlight.

r04r !GETFUCKED replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,505

@previous (K)
Yes, I know of it.

Anonymous D replied with this 13 years ago, 9 minutes later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,506

@453,486 (r04r !GETFUCKED)
HTML5 mode? Sounds interesting. I will try this out.

r04r !GETFUCKED replied with this 13 years ago, 55 seconds later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,507

@previous (D)
It likely wont work seeing @453,500 (L)

Anonymous D replied with this 13 years ago, 30 minutes later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,509

@previous (r04r !GETFUCKED)
...and that (@453,500 (L)) is what happened. Hrumph.

r04r !GETFUCKED replied with this 13 years ago, 39 seconds later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,510

@previous (D)
:-(

Anonymous C replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,519

@453,504 (K)
@453,505 (r04r !GETFUCKED)
Yeah, pipelight works great for me with no lag or problem to speak of on 12.10

Anonymous M joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 18 minutes later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,520

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re all referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Anonymous L replied with this 13 years ago, 54 seconds later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,521

@previous (M)
Sup KL?

Anonymous M replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 days after the original post[^] [v] #453,522

@previous (L)
You can't prove that, you filthy reptilian.

Anonymous G replied with this 13 years ago, 2 days later, 1 week after the original post[^] [v] #453,682

@452,587 (Geen !pFNWNYROxA)
You're the only one left.