[General] Help putting in Ubuntu

[Arthur]

I tend to use pipelight myself.  It runs the Windows flash plugin in a wine
VM, but integrates with Chromium.  Occasionally it will steal the mouse
focus, but just pressing the start menu key is enough to return things to
working order.


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Steve Conklin <steve at conklinhouse.com>wrote:

> If it's the Chromium browser that's locking up and not the whole
> machine, download google's version and replace it.. The Ubuntu one is
> forever broken by flash changes, and I don't know why they don't pull
> it from the archive.
>
> If the whole machine's locking up, then that's something else.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Jessica Jackson
> <j.jackson.ebel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Will anyone be at the shop tuesday evening who can help me install
> Ubuntu on
> > my laptop? I know it's supposed to be pretty easy to work with, but I
> did it
> > myself and it's not working properly. (Programs install weird and I can
> only
> > use the internet for 2-30 minutes before it freezes on regular sites,
> > nothing particularly demanding.)
> >
> > I'd really appreciate it if anyone could give me a hand. This should be
> > pretty simple for someone who's done it before.
> >
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Sincerely,
Arthur Moore
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