Help Me Enjoy [Install] Kubuntu Please

[Qqmike]

Which reminds me, why didn't WE think to mention this?

@ logan01, "Root Actions Service Menu" in Dolphin. Very handy to have. For example, suppose you navigate to a file, like /etc/default/grub. You can right-click on the grub file and select root actions, open, and it opens where you have root privileges to work on it, save it, exit.

Read all about it, easy to install. Btw, get the one written by 'our' kubicle here (scroll down through the list of offerings until you hit it):

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dolphin_file_manager
Add services to the Dolphin file manager

[Qqmike]

Hi elijathegold, yeah, the terminal is handy, for many, many things. Sometimes, like certain file management, where there is a bunch of "monkey motion" required to get the job done, I really like a good GUI. Fixing apt? using dd? mounting media (that "should" already be mounted in GUI ...), many, many useful things about the CLI. The extent of my depth of knowledge about CLI (read: not too deep), is here, as logan01 cited:
https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...sole-Beginners

Thanks, btw, for jumping in here to help. WE appreciate it!

[elijathegold]

In the hopes that this flops over to page 42 ( and who doesn't like 42) I'll chuck in a little explanation.

When you were booting the console was defaulting to a too low resolution to allow the Plymouth loader screen to show. It took me much too long to realise what meant by scrolling DOS screen or I'd have mentioned the fix a long time ago It may be taking a little longer to get to the login screen now as Plymouth has to start up and stop. For interest, you can still see the scrolling text by pressing Esc.

@Qqmike: The terminal is simpler, it just doesn't look like it. Well as long as you don't accidentally wander in to the realm of vi.

[logan01]

Ya'll enjoy yourselves, I have a new thread to start.

[logan01]

You've got to be kidding me! Can't you "compress" page 40 so that page 41 posts are on page 40, close thread and provide password to those who have been active in this thread, let us continue as needed, kind of blogesque, where the pages never increase in number? You are admin, you are juan.

[Qqmike]

tee hee hee see what I did there

I'm not sure I do. Is 40 in what base? Not binary 'cause of the 4. Base 10? I'm not tellin' my favorite number, that's for sure after seeing what you've done with the 40 case.

[claydoh]

Well, 40 is a perfectly inferior number.

tee hee hee see what I did there

[logan01]

Thanks claydoh. Other threads will be forthcoming, Hopefully on an as-needed, infrequent basis. Great forum here.

[claydoh]

Well, 40 is a perfectly inferior number.

[Qqmike]

WE were hoping no one would notice, especially you mods. I'm covering for logan01, he's new here, seems to like the number 40, I'm innocent and just going along with it ...

[claydoh]

OMG what are we ever gonna do? 40 pages.

Why, I oughtta lock this suckah DOWN, baybee!




















Seriously, though: do feel free to start other threads, tbh some many not want to follow this many pages to find out what is going on or updated or for new problems/questions.

[Qqmike]

I really liked Netscape, too. Many of here remember it and cite it occasionally.

[logan01]

I really like 7 and xp. Don't like 8/8.1. 10 is ok but they have major, major issues with the new browser Edge. Edge has good potential but lacks common sense features and messes up frequently. Always hated Explorer. Netscape was my favorite. System-wise, I am absent of knowledge to judge. But I love this old unix-style stuff. Been almost 30 years since my unix days (as a mere usr).

[Qqmike]

10 seems to get good tech reviews. Privacy issues are another matter (and privacy settings can mostly be controlled by the user). 10 seems to be the best of 8.1 and 7 -- or, at least fixes the complaints against 8.1. All I care about is the Control Panel and Settings -- just enough to maintain and check the system now and then.

I used XP until 2006, switched to Kubuntu, tried several other Linux OSs, always kept Kubuntu as my "main" OS, and it is my only OS now (though I keep other Linux OSs installed--Mint and Debian--just to conduct the booting experiments I run).

[logan01]

I praise 10. That's what finally drove me here. Of course Had I known how sweet this is, I would have "crossed over" long ago. Gotta make up for lost time.