Comments on The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

Karmic Koala took a dump in my computer and now all I have is koala crap.

Your tutorials are clear, concise. Personally I feel these "Perfect Desktop's" should be considered suggestions for picking and chosing software to add to the standard Ubuntu install. Good stuff, thanks!

falko..followed your instructions to the letter as I have for about six previous distro. never a problem with your tutorials and guides. keep up the great work. thanks

Hi Falko,

Another nice how-to, thanks!  I have followed this one a couple of times building machines and every time I have had to manually download the jdk-6u10-docs.zip into /tmp and chown them to root:root. The file is located at http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp, scroll down to additional resources and download the doc's.  You'll have to answer a couple of questions re: language etc.

You might want to add this to your how-to.

I have installed this on an older Shuttle-fx box, and on a Lenovo Atom based netbook (installed the netbook remix.) Both have worked fine. I had no network issues, and can manage my router from either.
I don't understand the DSL complaint. When I had to set up DSL for my father, I got it running, then cloned into place a router and never had to touch the DSL again. Thereafter, all boxes that I had to connect were just connected to a private network. I didn't try that hard to make sure I had known working hardware, but the first place I would look would be that I didn't have known problem hardware.
I do agree with the comment regarding WINE, sort of. If the goal is a complete break from Windows, then maybe not, but if I wanted to deliver a box that worked for a friend or client, then WINE should be installed for the software that has no close enough replacement. IrfanView springs to mind immediately.

Couldn't agree more! I tried every Ubuntu release since Feisty and since Gutsy there is always something to destroy a possibly positive experience with ubuntu. This release this is broken, that release that is broken and the next release this and that and the other is broken. Quite a shame!

With almost all of my computers Karmic works great out of the box. I have troubles only with an Intel G41 based motherboard. I think it's always like this with Linux: you have to wait some months before the kernel supports the newest hardware...

Yeah i agree!!!! no DSL connection in network manager.... Crap

I have the same problem any solution?

I just spent 2 full days trying all the applications you mentioned would work with an iPod.   My Nano would not show up in any of them but RythymBox... but even that doesn't work right.   I can drop music in there but the iPod itself shows 0 songs.

Did you  just copy and paste off some report they gave you as to what each application was suppose to do without trying them yourself?

You're saying this is how you fully replace a Windows desktop, but in that case I'm missing one important piece of software that does something Linux can't do by itself:

Wine - to be able to run other miscellaneous, legacy or unported software the user might run. This doesn't mean Photoshop or anything, just those things that don't have a Linux equivalent - possibly a game, or some special application, or...

I was also searching for some games for my linux, because most of the games doesn`t support on linux which I used to play on my XP. I think now I got some guidance from here. Thanks for sharing

Perfect OS... yeah, right.

 After upgrade - no sound, no screen brightness control (so dim, I could hardly see anything), no DSL connection.

Sitting for hours before the computer and dual booting into Windows to get to the Internet, I finally could get sound back and eventually found a hack (note, not a normal solution, which should've been coded in there years ago, but a hack) to fix the screen brightness.

The DSL connection is NOT solved to this day. My network manager app does not work and after trying to apply suggested fixes it simply deleted all of my connections and stopped recognizing any network at all.

 This happens to all systems, but in this exact case I would say Karmic release was definitely rushed, creating lots of problems for its users and producing very bad publicity.

Since 8.04 Ubuntu is piece of crap...

Hi falko, nice tutorial. ;) I was waiting for this. Thx a lot and keep up the good work.

For my personal needs, Ubuntu lacks one thing to convince me to leave Windows forever: an automatic form filler like Roboform. Give me that, and my XP cd gets thrown away.

I switched from RoboForm to LastPass (lastpass.com) a few months ago.  I think LastPass might be a better choice from a functional perspective and it has good platform support.  I use it on FF 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10 64b regularly.  I also run XP (IE, FF) and W7-64 (IE,FF) all with LastPass.  So far I've been pleased.  I haven't tried the iPhone app which costs $1/mo.  Everything else listed above is free.

Thanks for a very well-written and understandable guide for installing the Ubuntu for the first time.

Unfortunate i cannot get past the section with 'preparing diskspace' as the Ubuntu installer cannot find the harddrive. I used the gparted in an attempt to create hardrive partitions manually, without any succes, i used google as an attempt to seek new knowledge and solutions but unfortunate i got even more confused, mainly due to lacking knowledge  i guess. The installer's 'prepare new disk space¨is empty.

 I am using a new harddrive for a clean install, not upgrading any existing installations of Linus or Windows

Thanks
Michael Andersson