{"id":4454,"date":"2012-08-10T11:31:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T10:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2012-08-10T11:31:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T10:31:38","slug":"making-ubuntu-12-04-useable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=4454","title":{"rendered":"Making Ubuntu 12.04 useable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop.\u00a0 I gave <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unity_%28user_interface%29\">Unity<\/a> a chance for a few days just in case it had improved since I last used it but still found it unusable.\u00a0 The following tweaks made Ubuntu usable again (for me at least).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bumblebee-project.org\/install.html\/\">Install Bumblebee<\/a> &#8211; I have an NVIDIA Graphics card that makes use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/object\/optimus_technology.html\">Optimus technology<\/a>.\u00a0 I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=3653\">learned that NVIDIA do not support Optimus laptops<\/a> on Linux the hard way but, thankfully, this open source project makes everything work.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedoimedo.com\/computers\/ubuntu-cinnamon.html\">Install Cinnamon<\/a> &#8211; Unity is an awful desktop interface in my opinion.\u00a0 Cinnamon, on the other hand, is very nice indeed<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/petermoulding.com\/how_to_fix_the_scroll_bars_in_ubuntu_11.4_gnome\">Fix the scroll bars<\/a> &#8211; Even after switching to Cinnamon, many applications in Ubuntu still use some truly awful window scrollbars.\u00a0 This link shows you how to make them go away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That was pretty much it and I&#8217;m very happy with the result.\u00a0 Do you use Ubuntu?\u00a0 If so, are there any tweaks that you simply must make to the default setup before you feel that it&#8217;s usable for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop.\u00a0 I gave Unity a chance for a few days just in case it had improved since I last used it but still found it unusable.\u00a0 The following tweaks made Ubuntu usable again (for me at least). Install Bumblebee &#8211; I have an NVIDIA Graphics card that makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-19Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4459,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/4459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}