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dorganhas anyone else been following dell's offering, or lack there of, on Ubuntu Laptop/desktops?15:49
dorganfor the longest time all you could buy was a desktop...now its only two laptops....one with 10" screen and the other with a 13" screen15:49
dorganwhat gives15:49
maxolasersquaddorgan: Yeah, it's been pretty week for a while now.15:54
maxolasersquadProbably low sales.15:54
dorganand the 13"  only allows a max of 1GB of ram15:54
dorganstill....its not like they have to use specialized hardware...well for the most part15:54
maxolasersquadThey do spend some resources ensuring the hardware options they make it available on works.15:55
maxolasersquadI'd recommend getting a System76 over a Dell if one wants Linux supported hardware.15:55
dorganyeah but it cant be that much resources as they only offer 9.10 installed15:55
maxolasersquadWell, that shows how much work they are willing to put into it.15:56
maxolasersquadWhich is probably proportional to the sales that the option is generating.15:56
maxolasersquadDell is in a good position to be THE preferrable computer maker for Linux enthusiasts, but doesn't seem too interested in making it happen.15:57
maxolasersquadI have a Dell that came with preinstall Linux, and the experience hasn't been as good as I was hoping.15:58
maxolasersquadSound support broke two years ago.15:58
maxolasersquadCompositing didn't work for a release either.15:58
mhall119maxolasersquad: I tried to restore Vista on a Dell, using the restore disk that came with it, and none of video, sound, wired or wireless worked16:04
mhall119so....at least they consistently suck at it16:05
tiemonstertrue linux users build their own computers...19:20
tiemonster...from melted sand19:20
munz-eeeanyone used gnome 3 yet?19:52
munz-eeemhall119, 19:53
munz-eeeyou around?19:53
mhall119munz-eee: yup20:17
munz-eeehey have you tried gnome3?20:18
munz-eeedo you like?20:18
munz-eeei tried it last night... don't think i like it lol20:18
munz-eeeliking unity alot more as time passes20:19
munz-eeedo you know how to configure the gnome3 look?20:19
mhall119munz-eee: haven't tried gnome 3 yet, no20:34
mhall119I hear the refactoring work they did is a huge improvement though20:35
mhall119but as a user, it's hard to separate the under-the-hood improvements from the switch to Gnome Shell20:35
munz-eeei heard about the improvements also20:36
munz-eeethe stile is cool20:36
munz-eee*style20:36
munz-eeehave yet to figure out how to customize it though20:37
crashsystemsgnome 3 also requires composting.20:37
munz-eeehere is where i sound stupid:20:40
munz-eeewhat is composting?20:40
mhall119so non-compositing X11 would tell each window what parts they need to draw on the screen20:40
crashsystemsbasically it is how things like compiz draw fancy graphical stuff on the screen20:41
munz-eeeok, that was easy :)20:41
munz-eeesoo it needs 3d?20:41
munz-eeeor decent graphics?20:41
mhall119with compositing, X11 tells each window to draw itself into a buffer, then the compositing manager takes all the windows and "composites" them into a single image to draw to the screen20:41
crashsystemsbasically20:41
crashsystemsif your graphics card was made in the last five years, it should run unity just fine. probably similar limits for gnome 3.20:42
mhall119compositing is a standard part of 3d graphics processing, whenever you have a 3d game or something, it has objects that get "composited" into a single image for you to see20:42
munz-eeeohhhh, ok mhall119, that makes sense20:42
mhall119so 3d graphics cards specifically well suited for this task20:42
munz-eeeok20:42
mhall119but 3d graphics cards aren't strictly necessary20:43
munz-eeeok20:43
mhall119Xfce and KDE will do compositing entirely in the CPU20:43
mhall119I think Gnome 3 will too20:43
mhall119but it's slower, because the CPU isn't designed for that kind of math, while the GPU is20:43
crashsystemsIIRC gnome 3 has some sort of "fallback" mode20:43
mhall119gnome 3 uses mutter, which I think can do compositing in the CPU20:44
munz-eeeok, i now understand more20:44
munz-eeethanks20:45
munz-eeecrashsystems, have you tried gnome3 yet?20:45
munz-eeei read it breaks unity, so i put it on my 10.10 to try it20:46
munz-eeewanna customize the UI look but have not found any config applet yet20:47
munz-eeeit does run fast20:47
mhall119Unity is built on Gnome 2, so replacing that with Gnome 3 is likely to break it, yeah20:47
munz-eeemhall119, i did sudo apt-get install gnome-shell20:48
munz-eeethen just ran "gnome-shell --replace" from gnome 220:48
munz-eeeand it killed the gnome 320:48
munz-eeeand started the gnome320:49
munz-eeeif i log out and back in gnome 2 works again20:49
munz-eeebut no option at the login screen for gnome3 or gnome-shell20:49
munz-eeeweird20:49
mhall119that's because you just installed the shell20:49
mhall119not a session20:49
munz-eeeohhhh20:50
munz-eeelol20:50
mhall119that's like just installing xfce-panel20:50
munz-eeelol, i thought it would install them side-by-side20:51
munz-eeeand allow me to choose between20:51
mhall119you'd probably have to install gnome3-session or something to that effect to have the option at login20:52
munz-eeeok20:53
munz-eeemhall119, you program right?20:54
mhall119yup20:54
munz-eeewhere is a good place to start learning?20:54
munz-eeejava, python, etc?20:54
mhall119python now, java, PHP and perl in the past20:55
munz-eeeok20:55
mhall119I got a few O'Reilly books when I started off20:55
mhall119plus online documentation and tutorials20:56
mhall119once you learn how to program, picking up a new language just requires syntax references20:56
munz-eeeok20:56
munz-eeei have been wanting to learn20:56
mhall119python is an easy one to start with20:56
munz-eeejust not sure where to start, was thinking python b/c ubuntu likes it20:57
munz-eeeand cross platform20:57
mhall119and there's plenty of online docs and tutorials, you probably won't even need a book unless you just want one20:57
crashsystemsI've not tried gnome3 yet.20:57
munz-eeeok, how long have you been programming?20:58
mhall11912 years20:58
munz-eeewow, you like?20:58
mhall119since I was in High School20:58
mhall119yeah, I love it20:58
mhall119it's not for everyone, you really have to have a mind for it20:58
mhall119and it turns out my mind is just right for it20:59
munz-eeecool20:59

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