Joe, Thanks of putting this video together. As a new Linux/ Ubuntu user I found this very helpful. I did not know how to install anything unless it was in the Ubuntu software center. If you have not already done so already, would you be willing to put together a video on how to properly update Ubuntu but most importantly how to remove all the old files that junk up a system after such an update? I want to make sure my system stays clean and functioning as it should. Thank you for your excellent work Joe.
Thank you Joe for another great video. On the command line I use 'apt-get' but sometime a tutorial will tell you to use 'aptitude' and I must confess I have never used 'apt'. In a future video can you explain the differences and why use one over the other. The other install problems I have is with scripts. Say '$ ./install.sh' then you get the EULA that I have only found to go one line at a time with ENTER. The result I shoot of the end and have to start all over again. A thought for another video. Is there a GUI for script installation giving more control.
Awesome video, thank you for the upload and information. I will need to install some of the software you mentioned. I have a question, I know you said you don't really play games but when I play some games on Linux they are really dark compared to what they look like on Windows- for example, Xcom. Can you guide me how I can circumvent this?
These videos are so entertaining/informal... stuff I already know, but still informal. Everytime I run one of Joe's videos I learn something new, just like in the last video of Multimedia management in Linux, that hit home with me since that is what I do with my computer: Multimedia. I'm running Linux Mint 17.3 also, my distro hopping is over. for this video: What if you have a .deb file of Chrome, will that look for 64-bit dependencies?
Nice video but I have a question that's off topic for this video. I use Ubuntu 15.10 even tried the LTS but every time I boot up there is a pope up saying there was a critical system error. So should I use mint 17.3
+VG Cobra You can turn that off. It's in the setting under security and search. You get those messages if the system has to restart a service or a program crashes. It's really not that serious most of the time. :)
You provided some "fairly egregious" misinformation around the 6:18 mark, where you state that Ubuntu would initially use the UK repository for a user in the US. That's simply not the case, nor has it ever been. Ubuntu uses the "Server for United States" rather than the "Main server" by default for those in the US. And only offers the "Main server" and "Other" as options from a drop down menu in "Software & Updates". "Other" enables you to select from a long list of mirrors or to select "Select Best Server" which initiates a "ping" search of all the available mirrors. However, the "Server for the United States" (at the opposite end of the continent from my location) is so reliable that the use of my local mirror (less than fifty miles away from my location) is of no practical use to me. PS ... the "Select Best Server" method is poorly suited to long term use, as the results will frequently vary, in what might best be described as an extremely erratic manner.
+Joe Collins If you were "talking about Linux Mint" why did you feel the need to include false information about Ubuntu while doing so? What does misinformation about Ubuntu have to do with "Linux Mint"? Then you further compound that by failing to even acknowledge that you did misrepresent the facts, in a manner that might lead one to believe that it was your intention to misrepresent the facts.
+Edward Emmons What are you talking about? Linux Mint uses the Ubuntu repositories and every time i have installed it it comes up to set to the UK mirrors. Period. I do not claim perfection but I certainly don't set out to misrepresent anything.
+Joe Collins My apologies, after "re-listening" to your video, you explained that it was specific to Linux Mint "rather clearly". I don't know how I could have possibly missed that, I must have been distracted, but that's my mistake , not yours.
What is it that you find to be "slow and clunky" about the Ubuntu Software Center when it comes to installing .deb files? You don't even have to open the Ubuntu Software Center or do anything other than simply "double click" the .deb file icon you have downloaded to your "Downloads" folder, "click, click", that's it, you're done. What could possibly be simpler than that? It's exactly how a Windows user would install downloaded software in any version of Windows, and without the annoyance of the "UAC" control notification that you would get (by default) in Windows. Or the hazard of bundled "partners" (bloatware, spyware, malware) often associated with downloaded software for Windows. PS ... many "self professed" Linux enthusiasts would probably prefer to install .deb files directly from the Terminal. After all, why do it the "easy way" when you already know how to traverse the Polar Route?
+Edward Emmons LOL. The last time I tried to install something from a .deb from the Software Center it locked up completely and that was about two days ago. Ubuntu is dumping it in 16.04 the last I heard.
+Joe Collins I installed Chrome with a double click from the Downloads folder (quite some time ago) and it worked perfectly, and the Software Center has always worked well on my build, though I no longer have much use for it. Apt from the terminal always works perfectly for installing applications from (stable) PPA's on launchpad, so I seldom find much use for Synaptic on Ubuntu. I think it's a poor idea for productive "main stream" end-users that are new to Ubuntu to use Synaptic, as it makes it far too easy to install things that could be detrimental to stability and functionality. Personally, I feel it's better suited to the needs of distro-hoppers, enthusiasts, and those that dabble around in virtual environments.
Joe,
Thanks of putting this video together. As a new Linux/ Ubuntu user I found this very helpful. I did not know how to install anything unless it was in the Ubuntu software center. If you have not already done so already, would you be willing to put together a video on how to properly update Ubuntu but most importantly how to remove all the old files that junk up a system after such an update? I want to make sure my system stays clean and functioning as it should.
Thank you for your excellent work Joe.
+Anthony Progar I'm glad it helped. :)
A wonderful, clear and pretty concise video - thanks Joe! *^^*
Thank you Joe for another great video. On the command line I use 'apt-get' but sometime a tutorial will tell you to use 'aptitude' and I must confess I have never used 'apt'. In a future video can you explain the differences and why use one over the other. The other install problems I have is with scripts. Say '$ ./install.sh' then you get the EULA that I have only found to go one line at a time with ENTER. The result I shoot of the end and have to start all over again. A thought for another video. Is there a GUI for script installation giving more control.
Awesome video, thank you for the upload and information. I will need to install some of the software you mentioned. I have a question, I know you said you don't really play games but when I play some games on Linux they are really dark compared to what they look like on Windows- for example, Xcom. Can you guide me how I can circumvent this?
+TransHerring I have no clue... I bet you could find more info on that with a Google search, though. :)
Joe Collins I know :) i was looking for the easy way out. cheers
Quite a beautiful theme you're using. Which one is it?
+Bestest Tardo Numix with Gnome icons. :)
Very nice video! Thanks!
These videos are so entertaining/informal... stuff I already know, but still informal. Everytime I run one of Joe's videos I learn something new, just like in the last video of Multimedia management in Linux, that hit home with me since that is what I do with my computer: Multimedia.
I'm running Linux Mint 17.3 also, my distro hopping is over.
for this video:
What if you have a .deb file of Chrome, will that look for 64-bit dependencies?
+Khyree Holmes Thanks! I appreciate the kind words... :)
FYI "informal" is the opposite of "formal", as "informative" is the opposite of "uninformative". Something that provides information is "informative".
Nice video but I have a question that's off topic for this video. I use Ubuntu 15.10 even tried the LTS but every time I boot up there is a pope up saying there was a critical system error. So should I use mint 17.3
+VG Cobra You can turn that off. It's in the setting under security and search. You get those messages if the system has to restart a service or a program crashes. It's really not that serious most of the time. :)
ok thank you so much
very informative...thanks
Is there any type of software that is equivalent to "Rhapsody" for Ubuntu ..? That is the only thing that is keeping me on windows ..
+George Hardeman I use Spotify on Linux Mint and it works just fine. :)
You provided some "fairly egregious" misinformation around the 6:18 mark, where you state that Ubuntu would initially use the UK repository for a user in the US. That's simply not the case, nor has it ever been. Ubuntu uses the "Server for United States" rather than the "Main server" by default for those in the US. And only offers the "Main server" and "Other" as options from a drop down menu in "Software & Updates". "Other" enables you to select from a long list of mirrors or to select "Select Best Server" which initiates a "ping" search of all the available mirrors. However, the "Server for the United States" (at the opposite end of the continent from my location) is so reliable that the use of my local mirror (less than fifty miles away from my location) is of no practical use to me. PS ... the "Select Best Server" method is poorly suited to long term use, as the results will frequently vary, in what might best be described as an extremely erratic manner.
+Edward Emmons I'm talking about Linux Mint there... Not Ubuntu.
+Joe Collins If you were "talking about Linux Mint" why did you feel the need to include false information about Ubuntu while doing so? What does misinformation about Ubuntu have to do with "Linux Mint"?
Then you further compound that by failing to even acknowledge that you did misrepresent the facts, in a manner that might lead one to believe that it was your intention to misrepresent the facts.
+Edward Emmons What are you talking about? Linux Mint uses the Ubuntu repositories and every time i have installed it it comes up to set to the UK mirrors. Period. I do not claim perfection but I certainly don't set out to misrepresent anything.
+Joe Collins My apologies, after "re-listening" to your video, you explained that it was specific to Linux Mint "rather clearly". I don't know how I could have possibly missed that, I must have been distracted, but that's my mistake , not yours.
What is it that you find to be "slow and clunky" about the Ubuntu Software Center when it comes to installing .deb files?
You don't even have to open the Ubuntu Software Center or do anything other than simply "double click" the .deb file icon you have downloaded to your "Downloads" folder, "click, click", that's it, you're done. What could possibly be simpler than that?
It's exactly how a Windows user would install downloaded software in any version of Windows, and without the annoyance of the "UAC" control notification that you would get (by default) in Windows. Or the hazard of bundled "partners" (bloatware, spyware, malware) often associated with downloaded software for Windows.
PS ... many "self professed" Linux enthusiasts would probably prefer to install .deb files directly from the Terminal. After all, why do it the "easy way" when you already know how to traverse the Polar Route?
+Edward Emmons LOL. The last time I tried to install something from a .deb from the Software Center it locked up completely and that was about two days ago. Ubuntu is dumping it in 16.04 the last I heard.
+Joe Collins
I installed Chrome with a double click from the Downloads folder (quite some time ago) and it worked perfectly, and the Software Center has always worked well on my build, though I no longer have much use for it.
Apt from the terminal always works perfectly for installing applications from (stable) PPA's on launchpad, so I seldom find much use for Synaptic on Ubuntu.
I think it's a poor idea for productive "main stream" end-users that are new to Ubuntu to use Synaptic, as it makes it far too easy to install things that could be detrimental to stability and functionality. Personally, I feel it's better suited to the needs of distro-hoppers, enthusiasts, and those that dabble around in virtual environments.