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Help. I Thought Ununtu Was Supposted To Be Perfect And Simple.
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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 354615" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>So the latest on the wife's lappy.</p><p></p><p>Old (faulty) hdd is in a USB caddy.</p><p></p><p>Shiny new HDD in lappy.</p><p></p><p>Installued ubuntu from the USB stick I created last week.</p><p></p><p>Now trying to make it work and do all we want of it.</p><p></p><p>No1 problem: It won't connect to the network wirelessly. It will connect via an ethernet cable but we want to enable the inbuilt wireless adaptor. Under network settings there's no mention of wireless. So I guess I need to download something?</p><p></p><p>No 2 problem: she wants to use Google Chrome. I see in the "Ubuntu software centre" there is "chromium" available with a similar looking icon? is that the same thing?</p><p></p><p>In the mean time I browsed (with the default firefox) to googles website and chose to download Google Chrome for Ubuntu. It starts to download. Then the lappy screen turns off. I mean turns off goes completely black. And it then just sits there forever. hdd light briefly flicks on every 10 seconds or so. so it's not shut down, it's "crashed" (I thought that was a word that did not exist in linux land)</p><p></p><p>I've tried the download twice now with the same result.</p><p></p><p>This Linux thingy is not yet living up to expectations (expectations are it will just work without pharting about)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 354615, member: 6969"] So the latest on the wife's lappy. Old (faulty) hdd is in a USB caddy. Shiny new HDD in lappy. Installued ubuntu from the USB stick I created last week. Now trying to make it work and do all we want of it. No1 problem: It won't connect to the network wirelessly. It will connect via an ethernet cable but we want to enable the inbuilt wireless adaptor. Under network settings there's no mention of wireless. So I guess I need to download something? No 2 problem: she wants to use Google Chrome. I see in the "Ubuntu software centre" there is "chromium" available with a similar looking icon? is that the same thing? In the mean time I browsed (with the default firefox) to googles website and chose to download Google Chrome for Ubuntu. It starts to download. Then the lappy screen turns off. I mean turns off goes completely black. And it then just sits there forever. hdd light briefly flicks on every 10 seconds or so. so it's not shut down, it's "crashed" (I thought that was a word that did not exist in linux land) I've tried the download twice now with the same result. This Linux thingy is not yet living up to expectations (expectations are it will just work without pharting about) [/QUOTE]
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