Monday, July 20, 2015

Ubuntu Linux Is Becoming Less Useable to a Naive User

It used to be that Ubuntu Linux, for all its quirks, was almost a useful alternative to Windows.  Ubuntu 10.04 is not.  I just want to transfer a file from my Windows PC on my LAN and I can't see how to do so.  Samba does not work.  A USB drive does not show up.  For reasons I do not understand, gmail through Firefox is not receiving emails, apparently because this Ubuntu version is not current enough.

7 comments:

  1. I'm up to 15.04 (vivid) so can't comment/recall how it was on 10.04. But I have a usb drive on my router that my win7 pc sees fine AND my ubuntu laptop shows when I open the network location. And never a problem walking a flash drive or usb hard drive between the two.

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  2. Clayton,
    I have used Ubuntu Linux for more than five years, starting with Ubuntu 9. I am using Ubuntu 14 and 15 as will as Lubuntu 14.04 on a old 32 bit laptop. I could never get Ubuntu 12.04 to share with each other, so I went to14.04. The Ubuntu to Ubuntu is easy. Ubuntu to win xp, 7, 8 is easy with Samba. The Ubuntu to Ubuntu is easy so long as you go to the file system to file system. If you want to go to a second drive to second drive, it is the pits, The key is to Google "Ubuntu sharing the second hard drive". It took me 3 weeks to ask the right question.
    I have read your blog when you lived in Marin county. I too live in Northern California and often think of moving to Idaho.
    Best wishes,
    Richard Boggs

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  3. Clayton,
    I have used Ubuntu Linux for more than five years, starting with Ubuntu 9. I am using Ubuntu 14 and 15 as will as Lubuntu 14.04 on a old 32 bit laptop. I could never get Ubuntu 12.04 to share with each other, so I went to14.04. The Ubuntu to Ubuntu is easy. Ubuntu to win xp, 7, 8 is easy with Samba. The Ubuntu to Ubuntu is easy so long as you go to the file system to file system. If you want to go to a second drive to second drive, it is the pits, The key is to Google "Ubuntu sharing the second hard drive". It took me 3 weeks to ask the right question.
    I have read your blog when you lived in Marin county. I too live in Northern California and often think of moving to Idaho.

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  4. Clayton,
    I have used Ubuntu Linux for more than five years, starting with Ubuntu 9. I am using Ubuntu 14 and 15 as will as Lubuntu 14.04 on a old 32 bit laptop. I could never get Ubuntu 12.04 to share with each other, so I went to14.04. The Ubuntu to Ubuntu is easy. Ubuntu to win xp, 7, 8 is easy with Samba. The Ubuntu to Ubuntu is easy so long as you go to the file system to file system. If you want to go to a second drive to second drive, it is the pits, The key is to Google "Ubuntu sharing the second hard drive". It took me 3 weeks to ask the right question.
    I have read your blog when you lived in Marin county. I too live in Northern California and often think of moving to Idaho.

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  5. Is there any particular reason you're using 10.4 or Ubuntu in general? I've migrated to Mint and prefer it to Ubuntu since it's a much more desktop-oriented version than Ubuntu.

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  6. Because LinuxCNC is bundled with it.

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  7. Rounds: After I installed the automountusb program, flash drives work.

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