Amir M. Sahib » Ubuntu http://www.amirsahib.com echo life; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:08:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Diving into Ubuntu (again) http://www.amirsahib.com/diving-into-ubuntu-again http://www.amirsahib.com/diving-into-ubuntu-again#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:08:32 +0000 Amir Sahib http://www.amirsahib.com/?p=517 A while ago, I attempted to start using Ubuntu, but failed to install it on an old gateway laptop that didn’t have any linux drivers for audio, visual and wifi devices. Or at least I couldn’t find any online for the laptop. Due to the failure in getting it to work, I stopped my Ubuntu journey. I wasn’t ready for it. Skip forward a year later and I found myself installing Ubuntu 10.04 on my newer HP laptop. Installation was a breeze and everything worked out of the box except for some issues with double fingers on the touchpad and the right/left click ares on it. I was impressed. Wifi, bluetooth, sound, video, and pretty much everything worked instantly with Ubuntu.

As soon as I started to use it for a few hours, I noticed they took a some of their UI from Apple’s OS X and Windows. It’s the best from both OSs combined into one. Workspaces is cool. I’ve never experienced that working on Windows. I find that very useful when multitasking. I also like the way alt-tab works when switching from one item to another.

The best part of it all is developing with Ubuntu, which is the main reason I switched. I was having a hard time dealing with Windows and developing with Ruby on Rails. On Ubuntu it was extremely fast for obvious reasons. I haven’t tried developing in PHP or Java yet, but will soon.

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Ubuntu? I’m going to learn Ubuntu?

]]> http://www.amirsahib.com/matriax-windows-xp-spoof/feed 0 I have begun my Ubuntu Journey http://www.amirsahib.com/i-have-begun-my-ubuntu-journey http://www.amirsahib.com/i-have-begun-my-ubuntu-journey#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 20:56:37 +0000 Amir Sahib http://www.amirsahib.com/?p=387 So I just installed Ubuntu on an old laptop I had.  I’m currently having video, sound and wireless issues.  That’s beacuse I dont have the proper linux drivers installed.  Also I have the latest Ubuntu (9.04) installed and apparently all the drivers aren’t up to date with the 9.04.y f

Anyways it’s pretty cool.  Very simple, pretty fast.

Anyone with a Gateway laptop (model mx3231) that successful installed Ubuntu with working video, sound and wireless, please let me know.  Thanks!

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