erland;691951 Wrote: > I don't think so, the issue is not the dual boot, the issue is all the > other setup you need to do after Linux is installed to get SBS up and > running when you have never worked with Linux before. > > It's not really that hard if you are willing to learn, but it will take > some time to understand it if you have never done it before. Simple > things like mounting a drive can be hard for someone that have never > worked with Linux before, because it tends to be a bit more technical > and sometimes you end up editing configuration files manually because > all instructions on internet describe how to do that instead of > describing how to do it through the user interface. Thanks Erland - you have it in one.
So for instance I still have no clue how to get my shared drive to mount automatically without editing configuration files. If there's a way I'd be very happy to know it, but as you say, the internet is full of instructions from knowledgeable people (but not many from people who realise many of us know very little). You end end up doing things because you are told to, not because you understand what it's all about. Further, if there's a way to get applications you have installed (eg Squeezeplay) to run without having to create ....sh files, change their access rights using the command line, and still not be able to get them installed in linux menus, I'd be glad to know. Linux doesn't fully support either of my sound cards of which I have two. I had to discover and install several extras before one of them worked properly, and the other will never be fully supported. The card numbers change sometimes when I reboot, so painfully constructed config files don't work any more. Ubunto 11.1 also appears to have a controversial desktop which I am still trying to decide is either total rubbish, or just will take getting used to. For instance, you cannot start most applications without using the keyboard to type a few characters of the name. In an era when we are moving to touch screens, what's that about? I tried to install odbc for SQLite so I could look at the LMS databases. No luck so far. On Windows it worked 1st time, with no configuration files to edit. Oh, and by the way, I cannot, for the life of me, get Ubuntu to share directories with my other half's Windows machine. Having tried about 20 different things I have probably got to the point where I would need to reinstall from scratch to clear up the damage. I picked Ubuntu current, stable, because I was told my previous attempt at a distro on a laptop (Linux Mint Debian) was too unstable. In fact I think the latter was simpler. I could go on, but here endeth the rant. A Vortexbox that I install and don't touch would be find. Anything else makes for too much work and never quite getting everything to be just as I want. -- PasTim Server on PC, 2 64-bit 2Ghz CPUs, 4GB memory (1 Million times as many as the first computer I ever programmed). Variously running Windows 7 Ultimate, Ubuntu 11.10 and Vortexbox 2 on VirtualBox. All FLAC files. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out over 'a bit of wire' to ageing Quad Hi-Fi. An old (wireless) laptop controls the server using Chrome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93699 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
