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Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 12 Jan 18

About 4 pr 5 years ago I bought a Nexus 7 tablet running android. The tablet is easy to operate, but I have no in depth understanding of android. Yesterday my lack of android knowledge became a major problem. The Nexus 7 tablet...

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Time for Xenial Xerus

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 9 Jan 18

This rather bizarre sounding name is the title given to the latest release of Ubuntu operating system. Each new version has been given a name along with the version release number. Having recently formatted my desktop computer and...

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Bad Seed

Stacey Smith @Stace03 (10) • South Africa 1 Nov 17

So there's a voice note going around in South Africa that tomorrow would see us have the biggest strike after a long time... to get all whites/farmers out of our land. There would be guns involved and a massive mall and...

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I'm such a bigger fan of Linux than of Windows

xeno-precept @stasis (91) • United States 29 Apr 17

My husband is the one who suggested for months that I switch to Linux and give it a shot. I'm pretty brand loyal when it comes to certain things, but I was unhappy with Windows' constant updates and laggy performance (this on a...

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I think I killed Some Pythons

Happy Lady and Freya the Catblog Cat @Jackalyn (7558) • Oxford, England 20 Mar 17

This morning I woke up and began the day with a Fatal Error involving a Python. This Python had something wrong with it and it meant I was unable to write. It had its jaws round my Word Processor. All day I fought and then I...

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Creating an Ubuntu Live USB drive used to be much easier.

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 15 Feb 17

I have put Ubuntu onto a flash drive several times in the past, which is very simple under Windows. Since the flash drive needs to be formatted in FAT32 it will only support a maximum file size of 4 GB. With the storage area being...

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I appear to have mislaid my Ubuntu flash drive

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 7 Jan 17

Since the introduction of Windows 10, I have been unable to play videos on my laptop. This applies to both Youtube displays and files stored on my computer. It is only the laptop that has this issue and the desktop displays them...

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No More Windows

fishtiger58 @fishtiger58 (29819) • Momence, Illinois 29 Nov 16

Well not exactly no more windows, I have a new operating system call ubuntu. It's different to say the least. It's from the Operating System from Linux. My son was home from college for the holidays and I knew he was using that...

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Fixed my sound issues in Ubuntu

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 8 May 16

After installing Ubuntu on this PC, I found I had no sound. None at all. I quickly searched the internet and found that Ubuntu 14.04 was infamous for sound problems. I tried a lot of suggested solutions. I did a force reload...

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Turning to Ubuntu

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 7 May 16

I have had a difficult few days. One of the PCs decided to lose its mind through some broken Windows and cannot be restored to sanity. We tried. And tried. And trying led to trying times. In the end, the Windows we had...

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Which linux distro are you using?

joyalaugustine @joyalaugustine (73) • India 12 Apr 13

I have been using Linux for two years and I am using Ubuntu 12.04 for the moment.I feel very good to use Ubuntu and I think it is far better than Windows in many ways.Your thoughts?

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Can I install Linux OS in my desk top

k sridharprasad @yugasini (12892) • Secunderabad, India 6 Mar 13

Hi Mylot friends, Today I have read an article about "Linux" operating system, unix is have more facilties and accessibilities in their version. I wish to use Linux based operating system in my desk top. Is it possible to me to...

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I tried To Use Two Operating System And Get The Benefits...

Jellrey @axlrate7 (1405) • Philippines 9 Jan 13

I thought I'm content with just one operating system before but today is a different story. There's a lot of free software today that you can use to aid you in some problems that is very hard to solve. The good things about...

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I feel great now!!

iamagoodguy @iamagoodguy (134) • China 20 Dec 12

I ruined my win7 OS by accident, and I use Ubuntu instead now. I find that Ubuntu is far more faster than win7 is! I cannot feel any halt now! It's just amazing! I open the Process Manager to see the status of my PC. Only 350M...

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I Would Like to Know How People Use Linux.

Heradog @Heradog (33) • United States 31 Jul 12

I have been a linux user for 12 or so years..I am just to cheap to have to pay for upgrades, virus and malware software. I am just amazed at the industry that is involve with the windows software. If everyone as as cheap as me...

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Is it safe to shrink drive C(Windows 7 OS) for dual booting Ubuntu 11.10?

shaieen @shaieen (257) • Philippines 25 Feb 12

Hello everyone! I am deciding to dual boot my Pc with the latest Ubuntu 11.10. My current OS is a Windows 7. My problem now is I am afraid to shrink my drive C because it might ruin my windows OS. My partitions are:...

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Just updated my Ubuntu OS and I feel like I have a new computer ...

bloggeroo @bloggeroo (2167) • Philippines 15 Jan 12

I just re-installed and updated my Ubuntu OS to the latest version and now, I feel like I have a new computer. And later tonight, I'll be doing the same with the other partition and re-install Kubuntu so it would...

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MyBrowserCash; Install Software.

shskumbla @shskumbla (3338) • India 11 Jan 12

Hello friends.., I have joined MyBrowserCash in Windows XP OS, and downloaded their software. But its not installing. Double click on the downloaded software shows an error. Some one told that it works in Windows XP....

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Ubuntu : Operating System

shskumbla @shskumbla (3338) • India 5 Jan 12

Hello myloters..! Is there anyone of you using Ubuntu or Linux operating System ? I'm using Ubuntu OS in my computer. Before i was using Windows XP. Do you know any torrent software for Ubuntu/Linux ? Before in Windows...

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can i combine two computers and use them as if they were one computer?

surfer222 @surfer222 (1713) • Indonesia 7 Nov 11

If i have two computers / CPU can i connect them and use them as one? did each computer need an OS installed or i can just install the OS at one computer and the other can boot from the network? I'm thinking that the way to do...

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