Okay. I think I just misunderstood "Ubuntu started on Gnome and is returning it never actually should have left." I read it wrong.
It did start on Gnome then Canonical decided to go their own way and created Unity now they're headed back to Gnome.
Okay. I think I just misunderstood "Ubuntu started on Gnome and is returning it never actually should have left." I read it wrong.
Yeah, it took me a little while to realize that that's what you meant.It did start on Gnome then Canonical decided to go their own way and created Unity now they're headed back to Gnome.
Yep; do it all machines rarely are.The box is still sitting on my desk, barely used. I think the excitement of the build was better then using the Windows box.
Every time I boot a live Linux distro to tinker with, it changes my system time when I boot back into windows.
I don't think I thought my build out as much as I could have, or maybe I tried to build a machine that would do it all.
I have a hard time imagining this is a pure system issue, but if it is, I don’t think the solution is more expensive than a new main board with decent configuration options in its UEFI firmware.Guessing kind of did not do enough research, but I figured windows would be ok.
Yep; do it all machines rarely are.
The system time bit is because many sane operating systems rely on the computer clock keeping UTC, and the localization settings modifying the shown time according to where in the world you are. DOS and Windows set the entire system time according to your local time zone.
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I have a hard time imagining this is a pure system issue, but if it is, I don’t think the solution is more expensive than a new main board with decent configuration options in its UEFI firmware.
Go for it. The world needs more Linux desktop machines!I'm thinking more and more about just popping out the windows m.2 drive and my storage drive and doing a clean install of Linux on the ssd.
Go for it. The world needs more Linux desktop machines!
Ah, yes; traditionally it was always a good idea to install Windows first and then let other operating systems care about making the system dual bootable. Haven’t had any reason for that in years, though.In the process of yanking the m.2 drive containing windows 10. Hopefully I can get Linux installed on my spare Samsung Evo 850 SSD...
Now where did I put my precision screwdriver set?
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Installing!
I think I found the problem, windows added some funky partitions and folders to my new SSD when I installed it.
Anyway those are destroyed now (hopefully with no major damage to Windows should I opt to put the m.2 drive with it back in).
Installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS was insanely fast! Probably less then 5 minutes.
This system now is a test bed to see what I can do with it.
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So, I am typing this out on my desktop with the fresh Linux install!
I do have a question and that is, since I am new to firefox, is there is a legit ad blocker for it?
Protip: Unless you have good reason not to, just go with the standard nvidia driver for your distro, if one exists. It'll save you a lot of work...I guess this thread it turning into my "Linux experience thread"
Right now I am trying install / update my nvidia drivers for my GTX 1080. I downloaded the file from nvidia, Its either building the driver or downloading it or something, I had a text file pop up when I clicked on the .run file with a yellow progress bar that reads "loading NVIDIA-Linux bla bla bla .run"
its about 30% right now...
I guess if I break something, I can reinstall everything lol
[doublepost=1509981377][/doublepost]And had an issue.
It took a long time but finally the thing stopped and told me there was some invalid characters if I wanted to continue editing (WHAT!?) it could corrupt stuff. I had the option to retry so I clicked that button, the console froze so I just forced it closed and decided to not deal with it right now.
Protip: Unless you have good reason not to, just go with the standard nvidia driver for your distro, if one exists. It'll save you a lot of work...
I did nix the idea of updating my video card driver for now. I did however get ADB installed so I can maybe mess with my phones (pixel 2 XL) a bit more.