Hey! I did something stupid in Linux, and now I need your help.

jay pettitt on 10/10/2013 at 16:13

Gnome 3 and Ubuntu play fine. And there's a proper official (http://ubuntugnome.org/) gnomey flavoured ubuntu if you want to be as gnome like as possible.

Gnome 3 is aces.

Renzatic on 10/10/2013 at 22:35

Yup, I know about Gnome Edition. Tried it back during my great nerd experiment back in April.

Based on what I've read, Canonical is branching off and doing their own thing with Unity, which is making it more and more difficult for the devs to implement Gnome Shell on top of Ubuntu. That's why I hear that if you want to run GS, you'll want to use a distro that's been built around it entirely, like Fedora.

Based on my experiences running Gnome Edition back with 13.04, I think they might have a point. 12.10 with Gnome 3.6 (I think) ran pretty alright, but when I installed 13.04, it was a buggy, chuggy mess.

Though on another note, Elementary has been nothing but smooth and blazing fast since the day it was installed. Other than goofing up my sound backend, which my entirely my fault, I've had zero problems with it.

Renzatic on 11/10/2013 at 23:03

It's good, damnit! :mad:

Actually, I know why some people love and others hate it. I think it's the difference between visual vs. textual organization. It's the same reason why some people prefer OSX to Windows.

I'll use a friend of mine as an example. He doesn't like using tabs in browsers. Instead, he'll open up literally hundreds of separate browser windows and sort through them by mousing over their space on the Windows taskbar and look for the name from the pop-up. If you ask me, that's an incredibly inefficient way to do things, and he's a goddamn freak for doing it that way. I much prefer an expose like setup, where I mouse into a hot corner and have all my various open windows arrayed right out in front of me. I don't even look at the text. I'll look for the icons, and the shape and colors of the window.

That's why I like Gnome 3. It's (for me) organized nicely, and keeps out of your way until you need it.

Also, now that it's been brought up, maybe you can tell me what all the drama between Wayland and Mir is all about. I know what X.org is, and I know that these two are set to replace it since it apparently hasn't aged well at all, but the whole thing seems much ado about nothing to me.

Renzatic on 12/10/2013 at 20:52

Yet more dumb questions!

I've recently finished scootching my entire /home folder over to its own partition. Originally, I used this drive as my Windows C, D, and Swap folder, with Windows obviously being on C, and my games and files I didn't want to have deleted in case of a catastrophic OS failure over on D. When I installed Elementary, I backed up Windows to my spare, wiped my entire C drive, redid my swap, but kept D as it was.

Now that I've converted everything into a more Linux centric setup, I've found myself with a ton of space on one partition I'll likely never use...

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3018396/Partitions.png) As you can see here...

I want to get that space back, basically shrinking my OS partition down to around 20-25GB, moving the swap over to the left, and expanding my /home partition. My question is, is there a way I can do this semi-safely without backing everything up to another HDD, wiping the entire OS, rebuilding all my tables from scratch, and copying everything back over?

jay pettitt on 14/10/2013 at 21:27

Traditionally you'd just boot up from a live CD or USB sticky so you're not using the partitions you want to fiddle with. From there, gparted will magically develop some easy to find resize options.