Just managed to do something for the first time

I removed the drivers that Envy installed, and then removed the package. Once that was completed, I for the firt time installed the nvidia drivers 185. I have never done the procedure before but it was not hard at all. It went very smooth and I am now running the latest drivers. I am so proud of myself. Also this is the first month of running Linux only. Everyday I get better and better at it today.

 

Awesome! It's so satisfying, isn't it? I actually installed the Firefox 3.5 beta, updated Pidgin, installed and modified conky, have gained experience in terminal commands for file system navigation and management, and editing menu items (manually inputting gksu command), and replacing icons, etc. And all this over the past couple of days.

Always something to learn.

 

LInux is a disease...once bitten you will stray, but will return with the disease twice as bad....and so on and so forth.....

 

You should try Arch some day.

There, you do everything yourself and there will be the same feeling when you finish.
I learned a lot myself doing it.

 

That's my goal. Once I get the hang of everything happening in Ubuntu I will switch to arch Linux. Before doing that taught I want to have a complete understaings of working in terminal. For example I now use pwd all the time to see where I'm at. I also now use ls-a to list hidden files also. My goal is to be ready for the move in 6 months. That's my goal but not sure if I will be ready by then.

 

Here are some tricks I learned that might make your bash experience more agreeable: Customizing the bash prompt and making aliases. In your home there is a text file called .bashrc (~/.bashrc) that contains the configuration for your shell environment.

In .bashrc you can list nice short aliases for commands and parameters that you use most often. For example, here are a few of the aliases I use:

Code:

alias ls='ls --color' #colorize ls output
alias ll='ls -l' #ls list details
alias la='ls -a' #show hidden
alias sshcw='ssh [email protected]'

You can also customize the bash prompt (PS1 prompt) to hide unnecessary info and show useful stuff like current time and directory. This is also done in .bashrc. Here's my bash prompt config, for example:

Code:

# Set color variables #
Black='00;30'
Blue='00;34'
Green='00;32'
Cyan='00;36'
Red='00;31'
Purple='00;35'
Brown='00;33'
LightGray='00;37'
DarkGray='01;30'
LightBlue='01;34'
LightGreen='01;32'
LightCyan='01;36'
LightRed='01;31'
LightPurple='01;35'
Yellow='01;33'
White='01;37'

# PS1 Prompt #
PS1='\[\e[${DarkGray}m\][\[\e[${Cyan}m\]\A\[\e[${DarkGray}m\]] \[\e[${Red}m\]\u\[\e[m\] \[\e[${LightBlue}m\]\w\[\e[m\] \[\e[${Red}m\]\$ \[\e[m\]\[\e[${Green}m\] '
alias df='df -B MB'

The first block of code just defines variables for colors, and the PS1= is the setup for your prompt. This is what it looks like:



Oh, and to activate your changes to ~/.bashrc without relogging, just run

Code:

source ~/.bashrc

 

Wow Archer thats very cool, I will have to mess with that. Thanks

 

I've definitely been wanting to try Arch or Slackware at some point. I would've tried one on my desktop, except the reviews of 9.04 were so good.

And I suppose I could say I slightly strayed after first trying Puppy Linux, but once I installed Ubuntu, I've been pretty regular. But after spending the last few days immersed in Linux, finally getting some time (I'm on vacation) to mess around, I have to say that, other than for gaming, I'd as soon boot into Linux as Windows. And Windows does seem a bit boring.