my pc run problem daily since ubuntu install

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what stupid I am, I found error daily

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Tom (tom6) said :
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Don't worry. It's a big change moving from Windows to a linux. Ubuntu tries to make it easier but it doesn't always really help. Most of the difficulty is a the start but you'll soon find it gets a lot easier. You are doing the right thing though :) Just keep asking questions here and through

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToGetHelp

also more general rather than just Ubuntu specific answers can usually be found at

http://www.linuxquestions.org

where-ever you find answers that solved a problem please post that as a link into anywhere else you posted the same problem.

Most of us still have a dual-boot system so that we can boot back into Windows for doing an odd thing or two that we haven't quite got working in linux yet, usually games and some things work better in Windows at first :(

Anyway, good luck and keep going, you're getting there :)
Regards from
Tom :)

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benny (b3ny) said :
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Talking about game. Is there any way to play Lineage II under UBUNTU? ... crossover

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benny (b3ny) said :
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"Don't seem like a lot of people have actually used Linux much. They haven't had to deal with an updated Enterprise Linux distro making their screen go blank because the X server crashed, or boot them out to a command-line log-in. Or some of the wireless problems some users have. Or the shoddy hardware support that Linux gets from a lot of vendors (long waits for driver updates after a kernel/OS upgrade)"

or... look at me my disk can not run! 3 days to search help find no solution to fix duh

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Tom (tom6) said :
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Wine is usually good enough but takes a little work sometimes. Usually that's worth it for the speed advantage of Wine ("Wine Is Not an Emulator" it uses a much more sophisticated approach) for help with getting specific apps/games to work try looking up how other people have tried it
http://appdb.winehq.org/

If no-one else has tried it and you find one of the standard tricks helps (or if you really get into hacking wine and find an elegant answer) then please add it to the database. Adding to the Wine database is a great way where a little effort can make a huge difference to linux for everyone and repay the community for all this lovely freedom :)

Usually tho, you just need to install wine and then double-click on the app, there's only a few that are awkward, "Murphys Law" (and such) suggest that it will always be whichever app you try that is one of those few ;) lol

To install Wine go up to the top taskbar and click on

System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager

it asks for your normal user password, not your SuperUser/Root one. although it gives you some dangerous privileges. Now either search tool should be able to find "Wine" and it's probably better to try the last sstable release which was 1.0.1, i think. A right-click should let you install it and then click on "Apply"

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Ps Crossover is another excellent project and many of the crossover devs also work on the wine team but crossover costs money to buy i think? Wine is the one we really need to get working well and seems to be the best for most things already anyway. :)

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Tom (tom6) said :
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There are some versions of linux aimed at corporate users but they tend not to want flashy desktops nor games. Ubuntu 8.04 is the last one aimed at corporate users and gives Long Term Support. Also cannonical offer the traditional type of support that corporate users often prefer

http://www.ubuntu.com/support

However, in my experience you'll learn far more about your system and become a far more skilled user the route you are using. Windows took many years for most of us to learn gradually and still is somewhat problematic because it's all such a secretive and paranoid world. Linux is Open and Free which contra-intuitively has also led to greater security and also portability (in Windows that's opposite sides of the same coin). Any hardware manufacturer investing in producing 1 OpenSource driver would soon find their products being able to be used by any linux user, or mac user, or unix user, or BSD user but in Windows they have to write at least 3 or 4 quite different drivers but they don't seem to realise this and insist that it's cheaper for them to support Windows! Things are changing tho, especially with people like cannonical and RedHat leading the way, breaking into paranoid corporate worlds. Linux desktop is the only fast growing sector in IT markets today and linux already dominates server and hand-helds markets. Windows made some brief success in the netbooks market and still dominates the desktop market but is slowly conceding ground even in its traditional markets there. Freedom, Openness, choice & diversity seem to be the inevitable way forwards, at least for operating systems :)

Hope this helps, keep it up and good luck getting to grips with it all :)
Regards from
Tom :)

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benny (b3ny) said :
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Paranoid to fool rasta return crisis as well as my money:-)

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Tom (tom6) said :
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heheheheh ;)

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