Another fresh new face.

[bmac]

Hi guys,
New to the Forum and Linux. Looking for an alternative OS.
Sure is alot of info here. Looks like a great community.

[oz]

Welcome aboard... glad you've joined us!

[bmac]

Thanks Ozar.

I'll be lurking quite a bit 'till I get a handle on some of this.

[Outcast_Aussie]

Welcommen

What distro have you installed ?

[bmac]

Just installed Ubuntu 9.10 a few days ago. Got ALOT to learn.

[Outcast_Aussie]

Ok.. First things first

Open a terminal (Applications > Accessories . Terminal) and copy & past this into it.

 sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

This installs flash,mp3 codecs and various fonts.

[clickalot]

welcome bmac!

i'm a newbie myself

since April that i've been using ubuntu 9.04
had a few problems but nothing serious at all.

i'm very pleased with my change from windows to linux

i hardly use virtualbox with windows at all!

[bmac]

Thanks Aussie I'll give that a try.

[bmac]

thank you, clickalot

did you run into many hardware issues when you switched over?

[clickalot]

I had no hardware difficulties when installing ubuntu in my desktop PC

in fact i started using a bigger screen resolution because ubuntu just deals with it better - i use an old nvidia 7300

i've installed a new hard disk: also no problem (of course i had to read the how to

also got a new cherry mini keyboard with touchpad included. works great!
(but i still have to configure it better and i don't know the actual touchpad brand...)