Thread: Me and Linux, round 4 and a half
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2008-02-29 , 11:48
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Come on..

and I was really happy with TextPad on the PC and couldn't bring myself to the task of mastering emacs or vim or any marvelous Linux text editor.
Use kedit, gedit?

and no matter what I tried, I could not set the default to be the Windows boot.
1)
Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Change
default 0
to
default 1 (if the second stanza is your windows)

2)
Or use a grub GUI
http://www.qt-apps.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/60391-1.png

That was hard..

And eventually I ran into a serious problem on Mepis and was never able to get it resolved
I bet it was a hardware problem.
but finding a driver and understanding what I needed to do to make files printable from the Ubuntu
Same here,
Blame the hardware people for doing windows-only driver.. Hardware has to be reverse-engineered by hackers to make it work when companies do not give specifications of their product. Not Linux fault.

I remember the time when I was hunting for drivers for my old printer for windows 98. Never found one, it was only available for windows Me or later..