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Gnome Shell and how there seems to be a lack of good Ubuntu based distro using it.

Does anyone else feel the same way?

I fell in love with Gnome Shell after using it for an extended period of time on a Fedora installation I had going on my last laptop. It's either a really great desktop, or one that was designed specifically for a person like me - but I got into such a groove of things that it was one of those glorious moments where the "design" of things isn't something you're thinking about anymore.

It all became natural, and I miss that a lot. I also love Ubuntu, though, because of the huge community and quick updates and latest packages, etc. I wasn't willing to give up on the ecosystem I'm used to, def. don't want to have to get used to a new package manager - I'm trying to streamline my computer use to increase productivity at the moment.

I'm already used to Fedora and the RPM way of things, but after snooping around for a bit I've noticed software development sort of pales in comarison to Ubuntu when you take into account that you have to install Spotify via 3rd party. And I believe there was another software I wanted to use (possibly Brackets? Oh, shameless plug, I do web design now, check it out! www.DanishArif.com. And Brackets is a great new Code Editor with Live Preview, and the wonderful people at Adobe make it. Download Here.)

Ubuntu Gnome - which is supposed to be an "official" flavor, or whatever, doesn't seem to be updated quite as often either. The website itself looks like someone decided to use one of Wordpress' existing templates and call it a day. The whole thing is just ... not very exciting? I know it's dumb to judge software by how the website looks - but it's not just that. I even faintly remember reading somewhere that people love Ubuntu as a distro, and gnome shell as a desktop environment, yet not a lot of people were using Ubuntu Gnome - the distro.

What do you guys think? Maybe I should just give Ubuntu Gnome a shot.

Does anyone out there love Gnome Shell like I do?! If you have an answer or solution for me, that would be pretty awesome.

Update: I remember what it was about Ubuntu Gnome that seemed really weird to me; it doesn't have the latest version of Gnome Shell! Which really is kind of ridiculous. 

There is news that Ubuntu 15.04 brings better GTK library support, perhaps that translates to Gnome Shell finally not looking glitchy and broken on Ubuntu? One can only hope.

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Shout out to the awesome service that is Dropbox. It seems that upon realizing that the files already exist on my other computer on the same LAN, Dropbox starts downloading them through the other computer/LAN, rather than get them through their servers - exponentially speeding up the process. That is pretty cool, actually. Wouldn't have noticed if it didn't tell me via the command line. It's the little things that make up the joys of verbosity.

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"How I feel after surviving my class on Linux in university." (/r/ProgrammerHumor)

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Found this on Reddit. (r/programmerhumor)

Should help, next time you're struggling with tar syntax.

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Prevent the clock from displaying the wrong time while dual booting.

There's a glitch I recently came across where I noticed the time on my clock kept either jumping ahead or going back in time every time I booted between my Ubuntu and Windows 7 install.

Apparently it's caused by the difference in time keeping technique used by both Ubuntu and Windows.

The system, our motherboards specifically, store the current time to be able to count it even if the system isn't ON and no operating system is booted.

The operating system then retrieves this time later to display it.  

Linux/Unix and Mac usually use UTC to store and retrieve the time from the motherboard, whereas Windows 7 notably saves the time as "local" time.

The difference here causes the time to be displayed incorrectly on either one or both installations.

Luckily, there's a simple enough solution.

It's easier make your Linux install switch to "local" as opposed to UTC, than it is to switch your Windows 7 over to UTC. I would also like to give Ubuntu more priority here since this is an Ubuntu blog after all.

Make Ubuntu use "local" time:

Edit the file /etc/default/rcS  -  You can do this using gedit, and using the following command:

gksudo gedit /etc/default/rcS

Scroll to (or search for) the following line, changing the "yes" to "no." If it doesn't already exist, you can also add the line yourself.

UTC=no

Note that the default (as well as recommended,) value for UTC is "yes".

If you want to go the Windows route, and want to set your Windows 7 install to switch to UTC instead, follow the official Ubuntu help guide here.

You can also find the problem addressed here on AskUbuntu.com.

Your system should stop defying the laws of physics and jumping back and forth between time now.

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a change of name

I chose to use an edgy and risque name to attract attention when I decided to start this blog. I have to find a job soon, however, and can't talk about the blog with a name like such with everyone. It would get pretty awkward pretty soon, don't you think?

So now for the question of what I could rename it to, and I thought it would be a good idea to see if any of you had any suggestions or any other thoughts. Or whether you think I should even change it.

I would really appreciate some feedback.

What do you think?

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The History of Ubuntu (so far,) by OMGUbuntu.co.uk

7.10: NTFS Support (read/write.) Oh, the good old days.

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Awesome WM not in the DE option list (Ubuntu 13.04 Login screen)

Whether you're using LightDM or GDM, recently installed Awesome window manager, and are unable to boot into it because it's not showing up in the list of Desktop Environments on your login screen... 

You should know it's a bug; https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/awesome/+bug/1094811

And that there's a fix.

Open up /usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop

sudo gedit /usr/share/xsessions/awesome.desktop

And change the following line:

NoDisplay=true

To:

NoDisplay=false

Simply changing NoDisplay from on/true to off/false, fixes the problem.

Hope that helps!

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List of Gnome Shell themes compatible with 3.8

It is pretty uncool that almost every new release of Gnome Shell breaks the theme system.

More often than not this ends up making themes obsolete, and the designers don't want to continue working on them for various reasons, and so they end up not working anymore.

I've been playing around with 3.8 lately, and can't do without constantly changing my theme. So I decided to comprise a list of themes that are compatible with the latest installment of Gnome Shell.

I'm too lazy to also provide a preview for each specific theme, but there aren't many to begin with, so I suppose it's fine if I just link them to their respective pages.

I'll update the list as I find more.

Bleu Fear

Dorian-Theme

Elegance Colors

MediterraneanNight Series

Numix

Orion

Zukitwo

Zukiwi

That's all I've managed to find so far. If you know of any more, drop me a message and I'll add it to the list.

To add, though, I've just learned that the Gnome team doesn't really provide the end user with theme support. It's a function developed and headed by the community.  

This kinda turns me off regarding Gnome Shell. Especially since it's a lot of work for theme makers to make updates to their themes every time a new Gnome Shell release rolls out, just to make it work. This makes theme support harder to maintain.

Too bad, I was starting to like Gnome Shell. I'm also fascinated by Pantheon in Elementary, though. XFCE still has stellar theme support, and so does KDE, so that's good too, even though I'm not a big fan of the latter.

Enjoy the above mentioned themes however, and the future isn't exactly that bleak. Some designers do like to update their themes to work with 3.8, it's just a matter of when they get down to doing it, if they do want to.

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Elementary OS Luna is kinda pretty.

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The new Gnome Classic is finally here and it’s beautiful! (Gnome 3.8)

- August 14, 2013.

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How To Upgrade to GNOME 3.8 in Ubuntu 13.04 - OMG! Ubuntu!

The GNOME team make it easy to install/upgrade to GNOME 3.8 on Ubuntu 13.04.

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Top 10 Features in GNOME 3.8 - OMG! Ubuntu!

The latest iteration of the popular GNOME desktop, version 3.8, sees release today - but what are notable changes and improvements should you be looking out for? Here's a list of our 10 favourite changes - in no specific order - new to this release.

My favorite thing about this though? The new Gnome Classic! Can't wait to install it and try it out.

Also check out the post right after this on how to install (and remove,) Gnome 3.8 on Ubuntu 13.04.

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A list of Unity keyboard shortcuts and mouse tricks.

Also, long press SUPER (usually the Windows key,) on your keyboard for a similar looking display of Keyboard Shortcuts in Unity.

[Credit: Octavian Damien on AskUbuntu.com]

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http://askubuntu.com/questions/65083/what-different-desktop-environments-and-shells-are-available

Here's a pretty extensive list of Desktop Environments and Shells available for your Linux operating system via a question asked on AskUbuntu.com.

Almost all the big names are here, and even though it's not a complete list, it's a pretty good single location for info on some of the more popular DEs' and shells out there and the list is pretty big.

Check it out then.

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Elementary OS; Luna just got released a few days ago (the 10th of August to be exact.)

Based on Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) this new distro has been turning heads on forums and subreddits.

Lots of talk about how some people think it looks too much like OSX. On the other hand, a lot of people seem pleased by how everything has been designed to work together, thanks to the fact that a lot of apps are in-house and specifically designed to look beautiful together.

Check out the video, glance over the features, then give it a shot by heading to their website at ElementaryOS.org.

Applications included by default with the installation of Elementary OS are: 

Pantheon Greeter: Session manager based on LightDM.

WingPanel: Top panel, similar in function to GNOME Shell's top panel.

Slingshot: Application launcher located in WingPanel.

Plank: Dock based on Docky.

Switchboard: Settings application (or control panel).

Midori: Web browser based on WebKit.

Geary: Email client.

Calendar (formerly Maya): Desktop calendar.

Music (formerly Noise): Audio player.

Scratch: Simple text editor.

Pantheon Terminal: Terminal emulator.

Pantheon Files: File manager.

(thanks to Wikipedia for that sweet looking list.)

Elementary have been working pretty hard on their Operating System, and all the work really shows. We're talking about attention to detail in the tiniest of places, like the fonts used. The first beta for Luna was released in Nov. 2012, and they've had quite some time to patch things up since then.

Still unsatisfied with the lots of Desktop Environments out there? Looking for something new? Perhaps this is what you've been waiting for.

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