My blog: encryptedsoldier.blogspot.com I felt for some reason that my Ubuntu laptop booted up quicker than my custom built Windows PC. Test bed: PC: Asus mobo AMD Phenom II X3 running @ 2.6Ghz Seagate barracuda 1tb 7200 rpm (SATA) Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit Test bed: Ubuntu laptop: compaq presario f700 HP/Compaq standard mobo AMD turion/Athlon X2 running at 1.9ghz (when i checked in device manager it said turion but if you look online it says athlon but the chips are identical) WD scorpio 160gb 5400 rpm HDD Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32 bit Times: WIndows 7 PC = 39.99 seconds Ubuntu 10.04 LTS = 34.26
@TheEncryptedSoldier It’s not that big of a deal it’s not the hard to fix the videos encoder … I just use this code:
mencoder filename.ogv -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts pass=1 -o output.avi
and it to almost no time to re-encode the video … this script was gave to me by thisweekinlinux show …
@maw88ify that sucks i haven’t dealt too much with 10.04 for now (let a friend borrow it because his PC is down) but will check it out
@TheEncryptedSoldier Yes I’m talking about the fact if you use gtk-recordMyDesktop and uploaded the video to youtube or into Kdenlive the video turns rainbow colored you can see an example in my videos… the only fix is to use PiTiVi , DEVEDE , or mencoder to re-encode the video… It’s a bug in 10.04 … and there is another in the software Center that wont let you install some of the software…
@maw88ify are you talking about screen recording?
@pogmotho1n HAHA ya , but to bad it has a bug with video again ….
At least in Karmic Koala I could record video and up load it to youtube with out it looking like a tripped out rainbow … and I have now clue how to fix it this time …
@pogmotho1n yes it looks so
Lucid Lynx is alot more stable than Karmic Koala
@Spoinkfawk the windows machine and linux are virtually identical after login in terms of speed they both take like 3 or 4 seconds.
Now from that screen you should time how long it takes until you can open your browser after log in…
Note:
In most cases the “:” signifies a separation between the left and right and can only be used once, where as a comma represents a list of items that will follow in orderly fashion in this case the button layout. REMEMBER never mess around with the first column.
Go to “Applications > System Tools > Configuration Editor”
Select “Apps > Metacity > General”
Click were it says “minimize,maximize,close:” next to “button_layout” on the second column. Apply your customizable preferences.
By default the buttons in Ubuntu 10.04 are placed on the left hand side rather than the right hand side as previous versions. If you are not happy with this look, you can modify it. The current set up is as followed:
minimize,maximize,close:
And it does not provide a visible “menu” option. You can change that by changing the set up as followed:
menu:minimize,maximize,close
@thebanjoz yes it is!
Ubuntu is Awesome!
@Nanotech233 okay I will look into the Ubuntu tweaks it sounds good, and yes when I started using ubuntu in ’07 it was a pain to configure especially the video and wifi.
I noticed that too on my Ubuntu version 10.04. I have a dual boot Pentium 4 with hyper-threading technology and 3GB of ram. Windows XP is still slower than Ubuntu. The strange thing is that Ubuntu has gotten way more user-friendly than previous versions. And all that stuff about messing with the Grub has partially been eliminated for the sake of newbies. Try Ubuntu Tweaks as I believe it is called. It is a good tool to customize stuff and clean junk left over from previous installs, like kernels