Currently, the official Ubuntu repository have several versions of Nvidia drivers. By using additional drivers, we normally install two versions. The current (well-tested) drivers and the current-updates drivers. Both of them are pretty old. Nvidia have recently released a huge number of updates to their drivers which really increase the performance by great amounts! Earlier, Nvidia didn't pay much attention to Linux. But... Two things changed their minds. First... In a …
Ubuntu : Got an Ugly Boot Screen After Installing Nvidia? Lets fix It!
When booting and shutting down the computer, Ubuntu displays a very clean, nice splash screen like the one we see in the above image (Without the "Hello, world," thing). But, after installing the Nvidia proprietary drivers, most of us will loose that nice splash screen. Instead, we'll start to see some terminal outputs. I have tried this with two different Nvidia cards and both of them have the issue. Some people say that the real issue lies within the boot order. According …
[Updated] Ubuntu : How To Edit Your Boot Loader Without Committing Suicide!
For novice users, dealing with Linux system files means complete suicide! Specially when it comes to the boot-loader. Imagine that you have Windows and Linux.. You want to set Windows as your default OS in the boot loader... You somehow found the folder with the GRUB configuration files and started editing it. After your done, you proudly re-started your system and was greeted by a boot-loader error! Boom! Now you can't access any OS in your system! I think this is the …
How To Add a Show Desktop Icon to the Unity Launcher
The Unity launcher does make things a lot easier for some people (including me). But it have some vital missing features when compared to the old gnome desktop. A Windows user will stop upgrading to Windows 8 because of similar issues. Most of them don't have enough knowledge to fix the issue and because Windows is closed source, most of the people can't fix things. But Linux is different... If we don't have a feature, we can add it! In our case, the feature is just hidden. …
Windows 8 is The Most Secure OS? Is it More Secure than Linux?
Microsoft claims that Windows 8 is the most secure operating system on this planet. But isn't it the most secure Windows OS? According to their statement, it should be more secure than Linux! Is this true? I don't think so... What do you think? …
What Happened to the AMD ATI Drivers in Ubuntu 12.10?
The newly released Ubuntu 12.10 have several issue with the proprietary graphics drivers. The Nvidia graphics issue can be fixed by installing two dependency packages and I wrote a post on how to do it. But the ATI driver problem is not yet fixed. I have two separate systems running ATI and Nvidia cards. You are lucky! From the beginning, I tried several things (suggested by Ubuntu forum users, Ask Ubuntu users and on the bug report) to fix the issue. Installed fglrx, …
Ubuntu 12.10 : How To Install New Software Right From The Dash
The New Ubuntu 12.10 have some cool hidden tricks which can help you a lot to ease your work. They are in the process of putting more and more features into Unity. The latest addition might be able to replace the Ubuntu Software Center! Earlier, we can use the Applications Lens to launch any app installed in our system. So it replaced the Application menu. But the latest version of Ubuntu added some cool new features to it. Now, you can use this lens to view the details and …
How To Install Additional Drivers in Ubuntu 12.10?
If you need better graphics and better performance, you might want to install Proprietary Additional Drivers in Ubuntu. They are not installed by default because they are not open source. Earlier, we used to install them through "Additional Drivers". But in the newly released Ubuntu 12.10, the program is missing! Then how to install these drivers? Easy... The Additional Drivers program (jockey-common) is removed and its functionality has been integrated into "Software …
Ubuntu 12.10 : How To Turn of Online Search Results in the Dash?
Ubuntu 12.10 comes with a controversial new feature called the online search. Canonical decided to deeply integrate Amazon into Quantal Quetzal. As a result, we got the shopping lens which will allow us to shop in Amazon right from the Unity Dash. But the problem is Ubuntu record our searches and send them to a remote server. To make things worse, results from Amazon were not only limited to the shopping lens but now if you search anything from within the dash, it'll show …