| Captain_Crow | will ubuntu ever be good/mainstream for gaming? | 08:22 |
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| IdleOne | they're working on it | 08:28 |
| Captain_Crow | like a few years from now could ubuntu become comepatible with mainstream software and games? | 08:28 |
| Captain_Crow | compatible* | 08:28 |
| IdleOne | if what you are asking is, will software written for Windows ever be 100% compatible on linux? Only if the software devs write linux versions. | 08:29 |
| Captain_Crow | well doesnt have to be 100%, but just running the stuff i bought w/o something crashing or the screen going nuts and flickering would be a nice start :P | 08:31 |
| IdleOne | I understand what you're saying, it still boils down to software developers need to make the software for linux for it to work on linux. | 08:32 |
| Captain_Crow | i havent used ubuntu in a while cause i had a bad experience with it, but if it ran stuff i actually use i wouldnt mind using ubuntu | 08:33 |
| IdleOne | if you buy something that wasn't designed to be used on linux, you can't really blame linux now can you? | 08:33 |
| Captain_Crow | i heared that linux is not 100% immune to viruses, is there some type of antivirus for it? | 08:35 |
| IdleOne | there is, but most viruses are not written to attack linux. | 08:36 |
| IdleOne | someone who wants to cause damage goes for the biggest target | 08:36 |
| Captain_Crow | does ubuntu have a antivirus software built in? | 08:36 |
| IdleOne | you can install clamav | 08:37 |
| Captain_Crow | does ubuntu have firewalls or anything like that? | 08:37 |
| IdleOne | !ufw | 08:38 |
| ubot5 | Ubuntu, like any other Linux distribution, has firewall capabilities built-in. The firewall is managed using the 'ufw' command - see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW | An alternative to ufw is the 'iptables' command - See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IptablesHowTo | GUI frontends such as Gufw (GNOME) and Guarddog (KDE from Lucid onwards) also exist. | 08:38 |
| Captain_Crow | so ubuntu is safe to use? | 08:38 |
| chu | Yep, Ubuntu is fine "out of the box". | 08:39 |
| IdleOne | been using it for 5 years as my main OS without problem | 08:39 |
| Captain_Crow | how does it work with blender and lmms? | 08:39 |
| chu | No problems with blender here, though I haven't used it in a few years, and I was running it on slightly better hardware than what I have now. Not sure what lmms is though. | 08:41 |
| Captain_Crow | its for music | 08:41 |
| Captain_Crow | http://lmms.sourceforge.net/ | 08:41 |
| chu | I would imagine it'll be fine, but I can't give a definitive answer. | 08:42 |
| IdleOne | lmms is in the ubuntu software center, one click install | 08:42 |
| chu | A classic instance of the old "TIAS", aka "Try it and see! (then tell us what you saw)" | 08:43 |
| Captain_Crow | does ubuntu have any userfriendly crossplatform programming IDEs? | 08:45 |
| chu | Depends on what you're looking for, really. | 08:46 |
| chu | It also, to some extent, depends upon your interpretation of an IDE. Some people are fine with the "loose", other people are after the "stricter" definition. | 08:47 |
| Captain_Crow | something similar to "mmf2" but for ubuntu, like something that i can use to make a game or simple software app and export to .exe, .swf, etc? | 08:49 |
| Captain_Crow | is there anything like these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickteam#Products , that work in ubuntu or would those work in ubuntu? | 08:51 |
| chu | I don't know what mmf2 is. | 08:51 |
| chu | If you want to write a cross-platform application, choice of IDE is almost-irrelevant. It becomes a choice of the libraries you use. | 08:52 |
| Captain_Crow | well, mmf2 is a program that uses a universal set of codes that i guess are converted when it exports, and it has a crossplatform exporter, but i dont think the mmf2 program itself will work in ubuntu, so im wondering what the closest alternative is to that for ubuntu | 09:00 |
| IdleOne | !alternatives | 09:01 |
| ubot5 | To change the default applications system-wide, use 'sudo update-alternatives --all' in a terminal. | 09:01 |
| IdleOne | hmm | 09:01 |
| IdleOne | that is not the response I was expecting | 09:01 |
| IdleOne | http://www.linuxalt.com/ There is somewhere you can start looking | 09:02 |
| Captain_Crow | ok | 09:02 |
| IdleOne | at a quick glance that list is a little dated but should still give you a decent idea of what is available | 09:03 |
| IdleOne | here is another http://www.osalt.com/ | 09:04 |
| chu | I don't think you're looking for an IDE per se, apologies. | 09:06 |
| Captain_Crow | idk, i had a friend that refered to it as an IDE, so i could have been misinformed | 09:08 |
| Captain_Crow | btw, what is kubuntu? is there a difference? | 09:09 |
| chu | I guess we just have different ideas of what an IDE is. | 09:09 |
| chu | So, Ubuntu comes packaged, by default, with the Unity desktop environment - it's a shell on top of the GNOME 3 library. On the other hand, kubuntu comes packaged by default with the KDE environment. | 09:10 |
| chu | It is *possible* to still install KDE on Ubuntu (and Unity on kubuntu) | 09:10 |
| chu | As far as I am aware, the differences are entirely aesthetic, but perhaps someone who knows more about kubuntu could confirm/deny that. | 09:12 |
| Captain_Crow | so kubuntu"out of the box" wont play dvds? | 09:18 |
| chu | It will. | 09:20 |
| Captain_Crow | but ubuntu doesnt? | 09:20 |
| chu | They are functionally equivalent out of the box. | 09:20 |
| Captain_Crow | i heard that windows8 isnt supporting dvd or bluray playback, so are dvds and bluray obsolete now or something? | 09:22 |
| Captain_Crow | i mean cause of operating systems not playing them out of the box anymore | 09:28 |
| Captain_Crow | what would happen if ubuntu were the only os? | 09:33 |
| Captain_Crow | if everyone used ubuntu would that solve all the compatibility issues? | 09:35 |
| chu | I'm not sure that question has meaning really. We could pose it as a thought-experiment, and I guess the answer is "yes" in that case, but it doesn't really give us anything. | 09:57 |
| Captain_Crow | im just trying to understand the situation with linux and commercial pc products :P | 09:59 |
| chu | I'd pose an analogous question something like "If Ford were the only care manufacturer, would everyone drive a Ford?" | 09:59 |
| chu | s/care/car/ | 09:59 |
| Captain_Crow | what is linuxmint, is it different from ubuntu somehow? | 10:01 |
| chu | It may have diverged more since I last cared to look, but as far as I am aware the difference is soley in the desktop environment. | 10:02 |
| chu | (Same as the difference between ubuntu and kubuntu, or xubuntu, lubuntu, etc) | 10:02 |
| Captain_Crow | is mint more popular than ubuntu? | 10:03 |
| chu | I doubt it, though Mint users certainly like to have their opinion heard. | 10:04 |
| Captain_Crow | when i typed linux into google, mint popped up before ubuntu | 10:04 |
| chu | Yep, because Mint users like to get their opinions heard :) | 10:04 |
| Captain_Crow | is mint more like windows or something? | 10:05 |
| Captain_Crow | i noticed it had a start menu type of thing | 10:05 |
| chu | They are functionally equivalent, just a different aesthetic look. | 10:06 |
| chu | You can (easily) achieve the same thing in ubuntu. | 10:06 |
| Captain_Crow | does ubuntu automatically install vlc or some other similar video playerback software, or does it have to be installed manually? | 10:08 |
| Captain_Crow | playback* | 10:08 |
| chu | I don't know what the name of the default video player is, but there is one there automatically. | 10:09 |
| Captain_Crow | so basically if someone installed ubuntu and ran updates and stuff, they could pop in a dvd and play it? | 10:10 |
| chu | Yes. | 10:10 |
| Captain_Crow | but not blurays? | 10:11 |
| chu | Not sure why they'd be any different. | 10:11 |
| chu | Oh, it's a restricted format. I see. | 10:12 |
| chu | You can't play blue rays, or hd dvds, without some effort. | 10:13 |
| Captain_Crow | how do i burn ubuntu to a disk? | 15:15 |
| Captain_Crow | i put in a disk, opened infrarecorder, and selected the iso file, a box came up, the ok button is greyed out | 15:17 |
| Captain_Crow | how do i get a ".msi" file to run on linux? | 17:12 |
| popey | Captain_Crow, that's a windows app | 19:02 |
| Captain_Crow | i got it, i just forgot to install wine :P | 20:14 |
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