I searched around, and currently there are two methods suggested; installing an enhancement for Windows Subsystem for Linux and installing an XServer.
I want to know which method is the most hassle-free (easy to install AND to use), and which one is less memory-heavy.
I just want Synaptic and CMake. Why couldn't that be a builtin feature?
Just switched from 10.04 to 11.10. I'm wondering about the limited options in the GUI for managing users and groups. Where is the old GUI to change groups, id's, etc. I know that I can do this from cli, that's no problem. But I want this comfortable GUI back.
As recently announced by Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu will be moving towards using Wayland as its display manager.
What are biggest differences between X11 and Wayland? Why will Wayland make Ubuntu better?
Some GUI apps launch cleanly via the Terminal command line, but some don't, and they cause the Terminal to wait for the app to terminate. Even then, some don't "release" the command line.
The mysterious ampersand & suffix seems to cause the terminal to put the process into the background (but I'm not sure what happens there).
Is there a way to launch an app via the Terminal so that there is no "hang on" effect, just like launching something via Alt+F2?
I'd like to have the command line available again immediately, without something still in the background and printing in the terminal.
The OCD in me wants directories I do not like the name of to be hidden since I do not interact with them directly.
How can I hide directories without using the dot notation?