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its in the software center. just go to the software center and search for "flash".

as for Unity and Gnome 3, neither are working on my acer (wiped the HDD and installed a copy of 11.04). I wouldn't be surprised if Gnome wont work on your 11.04 either. Be our luck that its the only Linux os without Gnome support (even though the Ubuntu window is based from the Gnome 2 base)
 
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yeah, i'm tempted to get another cd, might just get a 20 pack or something off newegg, and get gnome3 on opensuse or fedora, if you go to gnome3.com those are the only 2 distros currently listed for haveing gnome 3.
 
I noticed that too. Though it does seem that Ubuntu would give an error or something if Gnome 3 would not install.

Fedora is a good OS, but it takes a bit more knowledge of the workings of Linux, and needs a lot more Terminal knowledge.
 
haha I can see bigfellla working incredibly hard to restrain himself itt. Good work buddy. :D

Not really on topic, but I'd have to agree with some that the cost of a windows license pays for itself with its ease of use and compatibility with the latest games. Fortunately the Ubuntu community has grown to offer alternatives to anything, besides games, that used to only be supported by Windows. The lack of gaming compatibility, if I understand correctly, has to do with DX and other APIs that are exclusive to MS, and the software developers only support those APIs.

I doubt the majority of Ubuntu users install it only because its free. Many of them do it, I think, because of the open nature of the OS and the ability to "play" with something different, and they probably multi boot with a Windows install. Being free definitely helps of course.
 
i haven't gotten it yet but heard it lets you play any game on stem, and will let you play some others too, and more games are being made for ubuntu/linux now because of the rising interest
 
gunna post my desktop in a min, but does wine running steam take up a crap load of resources for you guys too, doesn't help that i'm on a pentium dual core at 2.2ghz, but still. and also my internet is slower, on windows i get speedtest.net in mid 20's, now it's getting mid 10's
 
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my internet is about the same speed (.3 faster in ubuntu, .6 in PClinuxOS).

Wine doesnt in itself take any resources. Its a compatibility layer. A mask per se, to fool the game into thinking its in Windows.

As for wine, it will run a lot on its own, and if it wont work in wine, chances are there is a Freeware replacement that will install just fine.
 
well i was running wine for steam and it shot up to 70's and 80's cpu usage (got docky and added the monitoring applet or whatever), and occasianaly even without that open it can jump up the usage, may be a faulty app or a side affect of a wubi install.

and i did get unity running, u use synaptic package manager and find unity 2d and it's about the same thing.
 
80% usage on a dual core, 2.2GHz, non HT processor is to be expected with a game. What steam game were you playing when it was up there?
 
it shouldnt be above 50% unless that wasnt all you were doing.

Open the system monitor and see how many apps you have running.
 
can't, apparently either the sudo update or upgrade thing screws my system up, cuz i had run thos 2 and then updated my gpu drivers and now i can't boot into either the one with linux .... -8- or -10- or something like that, you know any way to get back in cuz not even recovery mode works, it stops after like 30 secs and doesn't go, just the blinking underscore, and nothing appears if i type anything.
 
yeah, but this is getting annoying doing this daily, mainly that i had gotten it looking nice and the way i wanted, and now need to go threw another hour long installation, idk the actuall time, but it's pretty slow on my p.o.s. cpu.

reinstalling now, will just have to be more carfull next time and try to remember all the stuff i downloaded, but at least i now have a larger partition, now i'm up to 30gb's, only a 320 gb drive and norton backup has like everything backed up so it doubles the space taken.
 
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right now i'm running update and upgrade, once they finish it'd better go fine or i'm just gunna wait a while b4 going threw this again.
 
Like i said, VM's are your friend. Heck, you could simulate doing a dual boot install with them if you wanted. Practice makes perfect. No need to wreck your system if you don't have to. I'd still suggest Linux Mint over Ubuntu. Just a suggestion. It was my first Linux OS, and the dual boot went super smooooothhhhh.
 
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