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Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
August 31 2008 01:02 GMT
#1
Who the fuck thinks they're too good for Windows? The faggot who put a Ubuntu motherboard on my laptop, I guess. My brother has a lot of old laptops and was able to trade one in for this nice old Toshiba thing that's probably more powerful than my home PC. You would think that's a pretty sick deal, right? No, because it has this fucking joke of an operating system "Ubuntu" on it. You can't do anything with this Linux based piece of shit. Everything takes years to start up, the interface is clumsy, nothing is customizable, and you can't even make desktop icons. All you get is this bubbly interface that feels like a child's toy. It's inferior in every way to a real operating system.

This laptop originally came with Window XP, but apparently something happened to the motherboard and it had to be replaced. I want to know who the fuck gets off on putting a Ubuntu motherboard in when it would be just as easy to put a superior WinXP one in. I don't know much about computer hardware, but this just seems like a dick move.

I want fucking yellow text on black backgrounds, damn it. My PC lets me do that, and my PC also runs an array of useful file types. But try to run anything on this Ubuntu piece of shit and it tells you it's not compatible. You have to use it's specialized Ubuntu versions of the programs, and if there isn't a Ubuntu version you can try your luck with Wine, waste a few hours, and find out fuck all works anyway.

Is there any saving grace to this operating system, apart from possibly being cheaper? I don't know what I'm going to do with this thing, but I feel dirty just thinking about taking notes in university on it. Maybe I'll try to trade it to some dumbass who thinks he has to be different in every way.

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PS: Yes, I have almost no experience on Linux based OPs, apart from possibly my iPod, and the last disaster of a laptop I returned within a week of finding out I hate Linux. Maybe if I were some crazy hacker I would find Linux remotely useful.


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fight_or_flight
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States3988 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-31 01:12:34
August 31 2008 01:09 GMT
#2
lol, prepare yourself for the replies.

But yea, linux is much more customizable than windows (because its open source anything can be customize actually), however if you aren't a programmer than thats not really true.

One reason I know they use it at work is because it has a real-time plugin. That allows your CPU to be used in deterministic, real-time applications (such as data acquisition and motor control), because they aren't relying on the OS scheduling tasks in an unknown way.

Also, knowing how to use linux is kind of an unwritten grad-school requirement.

But yea, I don't know how to use it either.
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Kletus
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada580 Posts
August 31 2008 01:15 GMT
#3
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Mickey
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2606 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-31 01:22:21
August 31 2008 01:19 GMT
#4
Install Windows 2000/XP on it then. You mentioned something about the motherboard. It won't let you install a different OS?

Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
August 31 2008 01:23 GMT
#5
That's correct. If I could, I would. I asked my brother if it'd be possible to do some kind of dual boot, and he said the computer wasn't powerful enough to emulate it completely or whatever. He said that if I wanted XP on it, I'd have to replace the motherboard again, and that wouldn't be a good idea (according to him).

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Slithe
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States985 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-31 01:32:02
August 31 2008 01:30 GMT
#6
I have no idea what you are talking about when you refer to this "Ubuntu motherboard". Motherboards are pieces of hardware, and are typically not operating system specific. You have your computer, with whatever hardware of your choice, and then you can install whatever operating system of your choice on the hardware. I'm guessing what happened was your laptop fried, so they replaced the motherboard, and maybe your hard drive, and for some reason also decided to install Ubuntu instead of Windows on the new hard drive.

Whoever decided that you should have Ubuntu as your OS is probably a tool.

edit: Just in case, could you give me the name of your motherboard, so I can see if such a thing as an ubuntu motherboard exists?
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-31 01:33:58
August 31 2008 01:32 GMT
#7
Well the laptop is well used, but I agree, the person who actually liked it probably was a tool.

I really don't know. I just asked my brother if I could install XP on the machine instead, and he said no. I presume that means the motherboard is now committed to Ubuntu, in which case I call it a Ubuntu motherboard.
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Falcynn
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3597 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-31 01:35:35
August 31 2008 01:33 GMT
#8
I'm pretty sure you can install Windows XP on your laptop, you may have to download the proper drivers so that the motherboard will work properly (maybe that's what your brother means by an "Ubuntu motherboard"), but that should be pretty easy.

Unless you have some really vague no-brand motherboard in which it would be hard to find somewhere to download the proper drivers.

As Slithe said, motherboards in general aren't exclusive to any specific OS.
Slithe
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States985 Posts
August 31 2008 01:38 GMT
#9
In fact, it makes almost no sense to make a motherboard exclusive to Ubuntu, if it were even possible. The percent of the market that such a motherboard would be targeting is tiny.

Anyway, you can probably just put in your Windows XP cd, boot from the cd, reformat the hard drive, and install Windows XP. There might be some low chance that the cd won't be able to detect the hard drive because it's using a different file system, but that would be very strange.
fight_or_flight
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States3988 Posts
August 31 2008 01:39 GMT
#10
Maybe your brother is confusing the boot manager with the motherboard. The boot manager is just a small program that the bios links to. There is a windows one, a linux one, and various third party ones.

btw, have you tried installing windows yet?
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kpcrew
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1071 Posts
August 31 2008 01:46 GMT
#11
i heard that ubuntu is alot easier to use than windows but its so different from windows that using it is difficult for new users

never used it so i wouldnt know but it is open source and its pretty popular among new programmers it seems
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Chuiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
3470 Posts
August 31 2008 01:47 GMT
#12
Motherboards don't ... try installing Windows because I'm pretty sure you can if it was on there before. All someone did was install a different OS.
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nAi.PrOtOsS
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Canada784 Posts
August 31 2008 01:48 GMT
#13
Yea just dual boot window's, give your computer specs 1st of all tho.

I think the minimum system requirments for running windows XP are...

-Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)
-At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended)
-At least 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk

and the Ubuntu system requirments for comparison..

-700 MHz or better processor
-3GB of available disk space
-256MB of memory (RAM)

Ubuntu actually need's a better computer to run.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
August 31 2008 01:50 GMT
#14
try installing Windows because I'm pretty sure you can if it was on there before.

It wasn't. The motherboard it was on is dead.
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MeriaDoKk
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Chile1726 Posts
August 31 2008 01:58 GMT
#15
Ubuntu is really easy to use, you have a zillion programs to download (frmo synaptic for example), just enter the name and BAM, there you go D:
Kwidowmaker
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Canada978 Posts
August 31 2008 01:59 GMT
#16
Take it as an oppourtunity to work countless hours and master Ubuntu

It could be your Everest.
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Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
August 31 2008 03:34 GMT
#17
That's a load of crap. XP will run better on a terrible computer than Ubuntu.
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JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
August 31 2008 03:44 GMT
#18
to be fair, as much as I hate ubuntu (I was a user of it for quite a few months so I actually know my way around everything a typical user might need, and don't blindly rage at it.. but I can see its glaring glaring flaws), some of the stuff posted here is just silly

firstly
Everything takes years to start up, the interface is clumsy, nothing is customizable, and you can't even make desktop icons. All you get is this bubbly interface that feels like a child's toy. It's inferior in every way to a real operating system.


this actually sounds like something a ubuntu user would say about windows. i really don't understand how anything relates here to ubuntu at all. What ubuntu version are you using?

others have already covered the "ubuntu motherboard" part

and @ nAi.ProtoSS
source me for those requirements? because i'm sorry to say they're wrong? not like it matters in this particular case but anyway. ubuntu definitely isn't as lightweight as like wattOS linux or something retarded like that, but it's definitely very similar to XP in that regard

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do remember i said i hate ubuntu in the beginning. i just hate it for different reasons
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naventus
Profile Blog Joined February 2004
United States1337 Posts
August 31 2008 04:15 GMT
#19
A motherboard doesn't have anything to do with what OS is installed or can be installed. Your brother apparently is no computer whiz - so grab someone you know that is and have them reinstall Windows for you.

Your issue is a nonissue.
hmm.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-31 04:51:22
August 31 2008 04:50 GMT
#20
My brother is a computer sciences graduate and his job is actually specifically related to programming and fixing computers, not to mention just a fetish he has with being a tech geek... I maybe misunderstood what he was telling me, but you guys are on and on about a motherboard telling me I'm wrong... Well you're talking to the wrong guy cause I can't clarify what the problem is. All I know is that my brother said he and the guy he bought it from tried to get XP on there, and it wasn't working.

My beef with Ubuntu, for those who got offended, is that since I'm not a computer type person.. programmer... whatever... I can only use the GUI that comes with the machine, which anyone should admit is a joke... If I could program my own interface... I still wouldn't want to, because I use a computer as a tool, not as something to pour hours of time into just to make it work. I do work with the computer, not work on the computer. I'll ask my brother about it, but he seemed pretty confident when he gave it to me that I'd "just have to do some reading on Ubuntu" and get used to it. Why should I learn to unicycle when I can ride a bike just fine?

The rant was intended to be hyperbolic... That's why I called it a rant, even though I am truly frustrated with the system, because I just wish I could use what I've been using for like 10 years, because I can make windows do anything I want and need it to, without any awkwardness. Going thru Linux is just scary for me Dunno who to trust, how to make the resolution normal, how to quick start files (one click is way better than bringing up a command line and typing in with no typos a program name...)... You guys are intent on calling me an idiot and saying my computer must be able to run XP... I don't know what you want me to say, you're wrong?
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