Greetings!
I am new to the board and for the most part Linux. I have just built a dual boot computer in hopes that Ultimate Edition will be my primary OS.
I played with Ultimate Edition a while ago on a really old computer and had all kinds of cool visual effects. My new computer is 10x faster and I can't do any of that. I have seen forum posts and guides online on how to install nVidia drivers, but it is still a mystery to me. It seems like there are a lot of different methods all fraught with caveats or danger for the newb.
The guide here says to use Envy. When I follow the provided path, I don't have Envy. It also says to use the restricted manager method. I don't have that either. My card doesn't appear in the list that tells which driver to use either.
I was thinking about following the guide here: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install ... -lynx.html
Is that a good idea?
Here are my stats:
Gigabyte UD3P 1155 motherboard
Intel i7 2600K processor
nVidia Geforce GTX 570 superclocked EVGA video card
2 x Crucial M4 256GB SSD's (one for Windows, one for Linux)
1 x 150 GB raptor HDD
1 x 300 GB velocitraptor HDD
X-Fi Titanium Fatality Sound Blaster
I'm using Ultimate Edition 2.6.1
Regarding Firefox: two things. One, it seems to be slow. When I boot into Windows I surf around at normal speed. When I boot into Linux, it's slow boat to China.
In windows I use Firefox 4. Ultimate Edition came with 3.6. I thought Firefox was native to Linux, but when I go to Ubuntu Software Center to update, it isn't listed. Guides I have found, seem to be old and show how to use it as a beta or in addition to the 3.6 install.
I'm slowly moving my old data around and getting used to new ways of doing things, but I could use a little help. I love open source and I've been looking forward to migrating to Linux as my primary for a long time.
Oh one more question. I did get some automatic updates and, stupid question, but on the Ultimate Edition home page the author described how happy he was with 2.6.1, which is why I chose it, but if I allow these automatic upgrades will it actually upgrade Ubuntu and "break" the Ultimate Edition "package" that is so nice? I started to look at what was included, but there were hundreds of items and some of them said they were third party and could harm my system. Aaaaaaa!
to self: "Don't Panic. Breathe."
Ok, I'm back.
I have been reading through the forums and I will continue to do so, but after a while I start suffering from forum fatigue and have to step back for a while.
So thanks for the help, in advance.