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18 Jun 2010, 11:02 am

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The only problem with Linux is that full-screen animation is utter crap. I wouldn't suggest playing anything really graphics-intensive on it.

I play fallout 3 on mine, and spore and the sims 3 worked too. All under the playonlinux front end for WINE.

Really? For me, the animation is just incremental, one frame after another. My experience of this has been with online videos and screensavers, not with games. I would think it has more to do with how Linux renders animation than with software compatibility. Animation outside of full screen is fine, though.

You said you're using Debian? The problem is quite likely a misconfigured flash plugin if you're having trouble with full-screen online videos.

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18 Jun 2010, 1:51 pm

Orwell wrote:

LordoftheMonkeys wrote:

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LordoftheMonkeys wrote:

The only problem with Linux is that full-screen animation is utter crap. I wouldn't suggest playing anything really graphics-intensive on it.

I play fallout 3 on mine, and spore and the sims 3 worked too. All under the playonlinux front end for WINE.

You said you're using Debian? The problem is quite likely a misconfigured flash plugin if you're having trouble with full-screen online videos.

That's a problem I have. I'm running Knoppix from a live CD, so when I download a plugin I have to tell it to save to the hard drive instead of in the filesystem. I usually put it in the same directory as the application that it's for, though I'm not sure if this is where it's supposed to go. If not, I really don't know how to get plugins to work. I downloaded a flash plugin for Firefox in this way, and I can view my pr0n videos but not YouTube. I'm not really sure what happened.

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19 Jun 2010, 6:43 am

Does anyone know how to Un-Install Ubuntu 8.4?
(10.4 is just in my C drive on Windows and I just click 'Un-Install'. But I can't find 8.4 any where.)

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19 Jun 2010, 3:06 pm

Blake_be_cool wrote:

Does anyone know how to Un-Install Ubuntu 8.4?
(10.4 is just in my C drive on Windows and I just click 'Un-Install'. But I can't find 8.4 any where.)

In other words, you were using Wubi. I've never used Wubi so I'm not sure how to answer your question. Although, you may have uninstalled it already. Have you tried searching your hard drive? Just use the Windows search function to look for the files.

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19 Jun 2010, 9:32 pm

You have installed ubuntu 10.04 with wubi, so it shows up as an install program(its a file inside the windows drive and the special boot menu). 8.04 however exists outside the world of windows in a type of file partition that windows cannot see. Its not like an installed application.

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20 Jun 2010, 4:54 am

Fuzzy wrote:

So How do I delete 8.4?

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20 Jun 2010, 5:34 am

Blake_be_cool wrote:

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So How do I delete 8.4?

All you really need to do is get the Windows Installation Disk and when you want to install Windows, delete the selected partition and then once done, just restart the PC and you should now have gotten rid of your Ubuntu 8.4 partition.

But when deleting the partition, do not delete drive C:\ - That's where Windows is stored.

Or you could use Ubuntu 8.4 and uninstall it from there, I'm pretty sure the wizard has the uninstaller pack so you will eventually lost that version. However, you still get to keep ubuntu 10.04.

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20 Jun 2010, 2:12 pm

superboyian wrote:

Or you could use Ubuntu 8.4 and uninstall it from there, I'm pretty sure the wizard has the uninstaller pack so you will eventually lost that version. However, you still get to keep ubuntu 10.04.

Not exactly an uninstaller pack. Rather, you boot into the live CD and use GParted to delete the Ubuntu partition and resize the windows one to fill the hard disk.

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