School and More

[irish_prime]

It's amazing how much better this semester is going for me. Turns out if I go to class and do my assignments I get really good grades. Writing stuff down also seems to be helping quite a bit. This semester is just starting, but at least I'm starting it on the right foot. If I keep this up I should be able to snag that little degree thing I keep

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[rocketlad]

screw Ubuntu - run Kubuntu. KDE has more balls than Gnome - just make sure you run winE for windows emulation. either that, or dual boot, leaving a win. partition just large enough for the OS, WoW, drivers and such

I'm running Kubuntu now, and love it - you also might check out Fedora Core 6 (the new Red Hat distro)

[irish_prime]

I love Gnome. >_>

I've been through three different distros tonight so far. Wine won't run on the 64-bit version of ANYTHING, so I had to scrap that. I didn't like the idea of rebooting every time I wanted to play WoW, so I'm just installing a 32-bit version and dealing with it. Shouldn't make much of a difference for now anyway.

[rocketlad]

which distro did you end up going with? I'm probably going to give Gentoo a shot next week - I've already run damn near every other major distro in existence...they seem to be getting a lot more user-friendly though, which is a plus....though i've also come into some annoying changes (like commands in the CLI being different now than say 4 years ago, and in diff locations...try 'ifconfig' in a fresh install of FC6, it'll laugh at you - they moved it to /usr/sbin instead of /bin)

[irish_prime]

I wound up going with Ubuntu i386. Hardly anything is supported in the x64 version - notably WINE.

Gentoo primarily didn't go well because we were trying a custom build that the CLUG is making and it just wasn't ready for prime time. Gentoo, Slackware, ZenWalk and Ubuntu are the distros I would go with at the moment. Though I hear the latest ZenWalk release isn't exactly up to par.

Also, Beryl is pretty... pretty.

[epilonious]

I've never actually tried it... so I don't know how dumb it is...
how dangerous is just including /usr/sbin in your generic path?

[rocketlad]

not sure actually, never tried it

i normally just copy the commands i need from /usr/sbin to /bin and all is well

[epilonious]

indeed.

See, here is my usual type of experience with linux:

"I have to move these commands to /usr/bin if I want them to just autocomplete if I hit tab... but that takes time... and it will be mildly annoying... I know! I'll just add them all to the path!! it's a mighty shortcut, it will be good!" [Bad things start happening]

It reminds me of one of my big sophomore mistakes.

"dangit, I hate getting all these permissions set so both Geoff and I can execute things on my system... I know... I'll just chmod... oh gee, regexp looks really complicated... I'll just chmod -R o+x after sudo... oh wait... I wasn't in /var/www/... I was in /" [one system reinstall later....]

[rocketlad]

well, at least you did shit like that

a few of us make the biggest n00b mistake ever.

bout 5 years ago, when i was first starting to mess with linux, i decided to learn all the basic commands - cp, mv, cd, ls, and so on....this including rm and its various flags

(by now, you know where this is going)

rm -rf / (my pinky reached for the delete key, didnt make it, hit enter)

yep

[epilonious]

[one system reinstall later]

Linux gives you incredible power. This includes the power to do incredibly stupid things :)

[irish_prime]

Hahaha! So many good stories.

As for /usr/sbin... you could just make aliases or links to everything you need and put them in a directory included in your path.

I'm going to make a video later to show off some Beryl features and the fact that I can, indeed, game in Linux.

[epilonious]

LIES... FILTHY, WINE SOAKED LIES

^_^.