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Ubuntu / Linux help or forum ????

tommu56

tommu56

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I cant get my wifi and bluetooth working on my new laptop and need help.
Is anyone on here familiar with linix/Ubuntu???
Or anyone know of a linix / Ubuntu forums that i can go to for help????
 
Good luck. I tried Ubuntu on a lap top and found it to be the most frustrating thing I ever tried to do with computers. I'm sure most of it or at least a good portion of it is me, but my word WTF. I spent a good portion of a day just trying to get my Canon printer to work and failed. I said screw it, I taught myself how to build a desktop Windows 11 and guess what, I downloaded the drivers from the Canon web site and had the printer working in less than 5 minutes. Text based commands are not for me. Win11 GUI is something I am familiar and comfortable with.

Like I said, prolly me. I am probably not smart enough and too old to learn Linux / Ubuntu text based commands but at my age the frustration level was unnecessary.

I feel for you.
 
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UBUNTU ran fine on my computer except the wifi issue driver isn't written for the module so i ordered and older model wifi card it wont be here till mid week cost a whole 17$ im im getting ready to find "office software" after i get this hurdle made. its not steps for the masses but I'm learning.
 
tiredretired said:
Like I said, prolly me. I am probably not smart enough and too old to learn Linux / Ubuntu text based commands but at my age the frustration level was unnecessary.

I feel for you.
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Nah, you are more than smart enough TR. Linux sure is different and takes time to learn. But when you have something else already doing the job for you and you are doing it for fun or something different I'm sure it can be frustrating. But there is not a doubt in my mind that you are smart enough. I know that for sure.
 
tommu56 said:
UBUNTU ran fine on my computer except the wifi issue driver isn't written for the module so i ordered and older model wifi card it wont be here till mid week cost a whole 17$ im im getting ready to find "office software" after i get this hurdle made. its not steps for the masses but I'm learning.
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I know linux, it is what runs the server this forum runs on. The servers I run on have not had an issue with wifi drivers, they are hooked to internet via hardwire, so I am of no help for that. But if you need help with commands or other stuff just ask. I might be able to help.
 
@Doc thanks I got the older wifi/bluetooth card installed it and when it booted up everything was working fine the board just hasn't had anyone write the drivers for the card. so now im 100% on linux / Ubuntu and out from under Bill's reach mostly!!!!
 
@Doc I'm digging in to my pc running slow in unbutu and I found 2 partitions one 1G 2nd 237G on HD im trying to figure what's on there and if i should delete partition and make first one full size?

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No no no do not delete.
Running slow ..
run top
it will show the top processes using up the machine. And shows free memory.
ps -eaf will show all processes and from there you can get the P ID ...prodess ID and kill it if you don't want it running.
kill the process ID number
 
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