Some of you Linux users might use the Faenza Icon pack. I'm using it as well but, of course, SKCraft doesn't have an icon. The default icon can be used with default icons, but it doesn't integrate with the Faenza icons. So I fired up the GIMP and made my own! Download: Right-click, Save as (or something like that) Even if you're a Windows user, this icon might be a great alternative to the default square icon. (Modpack team or sk89q, feel free to use this for the launcher ) The icon is 48x48. If you need something larger, drop me a message, I'll make one. Here's my desktop with the icon in the Docky bar on the bottom: Spoiler The docky autohides. Widgets made with conky, non-clickable. Xfce4 desktop with Siva Flat theme. (Your puny Windows ain't lookin' this good!)
Basically Xubuntu. It was Ubuntu before but I installed the XFCE desktop on it. I do this because a "real" Xubuntu (for some reason) has a few differences in handling network hardware which results in my Wifi stick not being recognised. Ubuntu shows no problems whatsoever. (At least it was like this last year when I tried installing Xubuntu. Might have changed now.) Also, I have now included media player controls in the top panel: Spoiler Audacious is just the best media player ever. No unnecessary shit, great quality and plugins, and can use winamp skins.
Now I want linux :/, I love the customization about it. But I really want to start with it, but I don't want to dive into it because I know nothing about linux and what it would take to get everything working :I .
People are always afraid of installing Linux just 'cause they know nothing about it. Remember, when you had your first PC you didn't know anything about Windows either! Given you are on the modpack team and know Java, you probably know enough about computers to not have a single problem handling Xubuntu. It's very easy-to-use, if you know how to handle Windows then everything is self-explanatory. You usually don't even need a command line at all. It's easier than Windows even, because there aren't huge piles of options you need to edit! Experienced linux users only use the terminal because it can be a lot faster than a graphical interface. (And it's easier than Java anyway.) And if something goes wrong, there is always help on the internet. Seriously, there are so many tutorials and help topics and stuff. You can install most Linux systems alongside Windows easily. You can even install Ubuntu inside Windows, but that's slow as hell, so don't do that. Just download Xubuntu first, then put it on a USB drive and install it! There's nothing to lose. Windows stays where it is. Simply put Linux in its own partition, anything bigger than 10GB is good to extensively test it. You can even manage the partitions from the installer. After installation, you can choose if you want to boot into Linux or Windows. It's even better if you have an old unused HDD around. No changes to your system HDD at all. Oh, and you can even try the system from the DVD/USB drive, as if it was installed. It's slow though. To really experience how a linux system is like you have to actually install it - because it'll be blazingly fast. You boot in mere seconds even without an SSD and the system reacts like lightning even on my slow-ass PC. And it looks better than Windows *cough* Well, this is a wall of text already, and I don't wanna make it unecessarily larger... if you wanna try it, I can send you a PM with some helpful tips you should know for installing.
Just never install windows after installing Linux, because windows isn't as courteous as Linux, if it detects its being put into a secondary partition, it'll try and erase your Linux. ( that's my experience anyway)
Yup! I remember that. I was tired of a mac and decided to immediately buy the parts and build my first windows machine without knowing hide nor hair of what I was doing XD Ehh, I wouldn't put it past me to try and do it then be like "wut i do nao", mind you I could probably figure it out after hours of tearing my hair out. But that's good to hear that it's easier then windows (I hope); Because I love windows, but there are some things that I just have no clue about. Granted to get around them pretty well, but it's not good to do forever. Heh, sure there are. It's just finding the right one that tells you what you want to know in an easy fashion. THANKS SO MUCH. Like seriously. I've been wondering about trying it out and hadn't found a good guide until now, that's MUCH appreciated. I'll be formatting one of my HDDs when I get back, so I can just try it on there to test it a bit and see if I want to make it my primary OS. But I have a cheap SSD, it should okay? Well I'll see I think I will be most definitely trying it when I get back home from holidays. So some tips would be greatly accepted I'll be sure not to do that
GODDAMMIT. I just typed a huge wall of text and then I accidentally closed the tab *punches self* An SSD is the best thing you can do to Linux. It'll be faster than any system you have ever seen. You can safely install the system on it. But you should try it on the HDD you mentioned first. Just don't grow too attached to the install, you'll have to reinstall it You could also install Xubuntu from a disc but a USB drive will make the installation much faster, use it if you can. Most things will be pretty self-explanatory. If you are unsure with something, use google. You can find many help topics on ubuntuforums and on help.ubuntu.com. Before the installation you can even test the system live, but it's really slow, so you should go directly to the installation. When installing, be sure to use a short username (you'll thank me later ), and make the partitions yourself (not the automatic install option). Only use two partitions: one ext4 partition for the system, and one swap partition for virtual RAM. The swap partition should be twice as big as your RAM, the ext4 gets the rest. That's enough for testing. Windows cannot read ext4 partitions, but Linux can read NTFS, so you can still access all your music/movies/porn/documents/whatever. ext4 is also about eight (!) times as fast as NTFS (at least on my PC). I still hate Windows for not supporting ext4 >_> Be sure to check the "install 3rd party stuff" option so you can play mp3 and other proprietary file types, and (if you have fast internet) download updates while installing. Reboot when it's finished. First thing you need is video card drivers. If you have an AMD/ATI video card, that could be a problem. The latest cards have good support, but I don't know if they can be installed automatically, and installing manually is a pain. Old card? Bad luck. Drop me a PM or post here if you have problems. The standard graphics are enough for browsing but not gaming, and they're slow and sometimes don't support your screen resolution. If you have an nVidia card, great, everything will be easy. You'll find an option to choose your driver in the Software & Updates settings, in the "additional drivers" tab. Choose the one that says "proprietary, tested" and save settings. Hope that will work for an AMD/ATI card as well. After that, you'll probably want to install some software. You can install most things from the Software Center. There's even Steam (you should download that from the website though) and quite a few games are already supported. Some software you might want to install: browser of your choice (Chrome/Chromium maybe? If yes, use Chromium, it's free of evil google stuff) Audacious (better music player than the default player Rhythmbox) VLC media player (good video player, also provides the system with all video codecs you need) Geany - you code Java, this is a great text editor with compiler integration (ask emkay443 about its greatness) Java JDK (duh) Flash (it says that it installs a Firefox plugin, but it will work on Chromium as well - unlike Google Chrome, Chromium doesn't include Flash) gparted (a partition manager, good if you tinker around a lot) Also, a task manager is good to have. Most GUI ones aren't great though, the console tool htop is better. Open a terminal, here's your first command: sudo apt-get install htop...and press Enter. After this, you have to type your password. The password is invisible, it doesn't show up like ****** or anything! And be careful if you wanna copy and paste it, the terminal uses Ctrl+Shift+V to do that. Elsewhere just use the standard Ctrl hotkeys. Explanation: sudo means "do as superuser". Like Windows "run as admin". apt-get is the command line tool that is used to install or remove software. install is the option for apt-get. htop is the package name. Easy enough, right? To start the program, simply type "htop". What's great about this is that you can actually use htop with the mouse even though it runs in the terminal! Few programs can do that. Many other things you need are already pre-installed. There's LibreOffice, the burning tool Brasero, the torrent client Transmission (this one's great)... and if you need something, go browse the software center. You should have a look in there anyway, you might find an interesting app you want to try! Be careful with apps that begin with "k" though. They are mostly designed for the KDE desktop, you are using the XFCE desktop. Apps that begin with "g" are mostly for Gnome, but XFCE can use them too. I'll post or edit in a few more tips tomorrow. I can also show you how to make your desktop look like mine if you want. But it's 10pm here and I'm watching a very interesting Zelda: Twilight Princess speedrun right now :3 Also, I need some sleep. yeeeeah I get it, sleep is for noobz. I've been awake until after 3am for more than a week now and I wanna go to bed early for once.
I can help with ATI drivers(I had to spend hours trying to Google how to do it) anything later than the 6*** ,you'll need the fglrx-updates package, just' apt-get install fglrx-updates'. That should also mark the dependencies, after the install of the driver, you'll need a restart, but before you restart, set your screen res to something low, incase your card doesn't recognise the monitor and tries to display something it can't handle. System settings>displays. I wouldn't use the one from AMD's site, although it may be the latest, its also a big pain in the arse to compile, I tried and broke my install, again.. I wouldn't recommend using the additional drivers thing, its buggy and never properly 'activates' the driver. Installing like I said above *should* be failsafe, and after the reset, the cotroll centre is called catalyst, just search that in applications to open it. to change resolution, you'll need the root password, but that's another story
It works perfectly with nVidia cards. Could be done even faster with sudo apt-get install nvidia-current. This is why all Linux users who upgrade PCs buy nVidia cards. It's also the reason why I have one, I could have gotten a better ATI for the price but I didn't want to deal with the Linux problems.
It used to be worse. AMD has much better support now than, like, 2 years ago. I was forced to use an open-source driver because the official one just didn't work. Right now, my only problem is a different one - somehow my apt-get has borked because of a multipackage (I installed xfce4-desktop), and it wanted to remove several important packages via autoremove. I made aptitude keep all of 'em but when I wanted to install Steam yesterday, it was unable to solve its dependencies, meaning that I can't use Steam
No. When I start Steam, it says it needs some libraries and proceeds to open a terminal that requires me to input my root pw. Then it shows loading dots and after a while it says that my printing drivers don't have a pubkey (what does this have to do with steam?). After that it tells me that some packages were not installed, then shows me a list of unresolved dependencies. Lastly it says that I have some broken/defunct packages. I already checked if the packages are available in the PPAs, but they are not... I think it's missing 32bit libraries. I use 64bit Ubuntu. emkay443 is currently looking into it.
I forgot the command, but there's one to fix broken packages and dependencies. After my reinstall, when I open TF2, it flashes a black screen, then it closes D:
There's apt-get -f install. It didn't work for me though - my issue was that I had broken repository lists. emkay443 sent me his and they worked. However, because of this, my Steam install seems to be broken, it can't access 32bit libraries correctly, so I have to reinstall steam. Yay, 160MB downloads with slow-ass internet >_> (glad that my TF2 is backed up) Edit: I'm also using the nVidia beta drivers now, they seem to work faster.
Well, it seems like it's not Steam's fault. The repo list thing was unrelated. Somehow I don't have 32bit OpenGL direct rendering enabled - that means that Minecraft, which runs 64bit, has no problems at all, while 32bit applications like TF2 won't run. Steam itself also runs slowly. Strange that I didn't have any problems whatsoever on my last Linux install but now there's all kinds of shit going on and I can't fix it. So yeah, I need to reinstall Linux... FUN
