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Maxpaynner
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Believe me gamahiro, I would love to ditch windows altogether but I have three reasons that always stop me from doing it:
1- I really, really, really need One Note. There's just no way around it, it's a beautifully built and very useful program. You wouldn't even think it was made by Microsoft. The open source alternatives just don't cut it, they have lots of functionality to deal with code, console integration and such, but the developers don't even think about the users that are not constantly coding. For example, while One Note properly supports tablet input, most of the alternatives don't even have a pen function. And it's not something hard to do either, just grab some open source paint code or something.
edit: I've tried whine, runs like shit.
2- I'm a student and I'm not rich. That means that for the time being I'm stuck with my laptop. And, look at my luck, of all the graphics cards in the world, X.org doesn't support mine, and the manufacturer refuses to release their linux drivers. This means maximum resolution is 800x600 with horrible performance, and I just can't have that.
3- Linux is hard work. Even with ubuntu you have to know how to mess around with things, and I just don't know how to do it, and don't know how to start learning. The master's I'm taking is eventually going to make me learn how to fiddle around with it, but until now no luck..
1- I really, really, really need One Note. There's just no way around it, it's a beautifully built and very useful program. You wouldn't even think it was made by Microsoft. The open source alternatives just don't cut it, they have lots of functionality to deal with code, console integration and such, but the developers don't even think about the users that are not constantly coding. For example, while One Note properly supports tablet input, most of the alternatives don't even have a pen function. And it's not something hard to do either, just grab some open source paint code or something.
edit: I've tried whine, runs like shit.
2- I'm a student and I'm not rich. That means that for the time being I'm stuck with my laptop. And, look at my luck, of all the graphics cards in the world, X.org doesn't support mine, and the manufacturer refuses to release their linux drivers. This means maximum resolution is 800x600 with horrible performance, and I just can't have that.
3- Linux is hard work. Even with ubuntu you have to know how to mess around with things, and I just don't know how to do it, and don't know how to start learning. The master's I'm taking is eventually going to make me learn how to fiddle around with it, but until now no luck..
Yea, that sucks. Still not as bad as the Chinese Golden Shield. Face recognition from millions of surveillance cameras. As soon as they get a working database, you can bet other governments will follow suit. Big Brother anyone?
Maxpaynner
Member
I know, I dualboot ubutntu because compiling C in windows is just plain wrong. But still I find it really hard to do something like, activate a graphics driver in x.org, for example.
Maxpaynner
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Um, it's a SiS M672 card. The only available drivers are some old 2d drivers for ubuntu 7.
No. It doesn't matter what distro you are using. If I knew more about the Ubuntu installation I could tell you how to fix it ie; how the kernel was installed
It's just a few changes to the kernel: enable evdev, configure framebuffer and device driver (intel settings for SiS) and your make.conf (maybe xorg.conf if Xorg -config doesn't work).
You can actually just go into xorg.conf and configure it the way you want for now. See what works for you.
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Bruce Banner
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hmmm... isn't this is an old issues...? did u know even the NSA and the CIA doing something like this...? even when there is someone typing a word like ALLAH, bomb and OSAMA they will immidietly investigate and hacked in to the users...?
there is no privacy in Virtual world...everyone monitoring everyone specially the NSA and CIA
there is no privacy in Virtual world...everyone monitoring everyone specially the NSA and CIA