05-14-2014, 07:10 AM
Hello!
No problem. We ALL need a good rant every now and then.
Having been there myself, I really DO understand your frustration with Ubuntu/Linux right now. Though it's come a long way in the last several years, that's still the bad thing about it at the present time. At times, you still have to tweak it some yourself to get it set up right. It CAN be QUITE frustrating, but if you persevere, hit the search engines for possible solutions, and try them out, at the end of the day, you'll be surprised at how much you can learn about it all.
What kept me away from Linux for the longest time was getting tired of having to try and 'figure out' how to make peripherals work. Hardware support was the one thing that had to be addressed to bring Linux into the realm of the masses, and from what I've experienced, Ubuntu pretty much had everything to do with that.
Unless someone who is more of an expert than I weighs in, it sounds like the best solution for your Chrome issues would be to just uninstall Firefox. That would eliminate the confusion about which browser's in charge.
Fortunately, it's not like a Windows Update situation, where a particular browser is required to get OS updates. I would suggest perhaps reinstalling Firefox later, but I've tried that with Chromium in Lubuntu, and as soon as I reinstalled Chromium (the open-source version of Chrome), it wanted to 'be in charge' again.
It's good that there are so many people here with some prior background in Linux who have embraced Linux Lite. It has a structure and many features unique to it and it alone, yet many of the issues addressed here apply to pretty much any form of Ubuntu - or Linux in general.
I hope someone else will speak up - someone who can be of more assistance than I can be to you right now...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
No problem. We ALL need a good rant every now and then.
Having been there myself, I really DO understand your frustration with Ubuntu/Linux right now. Though it's come a long way in the last several years, that's still the bad thing about it at the present time. At times, you still have to tweak it some yourself to get it set up right. It CAN be QUITE frustrating, but if you persevere, hit the search engines for possible solutions, and try them out, at the end of the day, you'll be surprised at how much you can learn about it all.
What kept me away from Linux for the longest time was getting tired of having to try and 'figure out' how to make peripherals work. Hardware support was the one thing that had to be addressed to bring Linux into the realm of the masses, and from what I've experienced, Ubuntu pretty much had everything to do with that.
Unless someone who is more of an expert than I weighs in, it sounds like the best solution for your Chrome issues would be to just uninstall Firefox. That would eliminate the confusion about which browser's in charge.
Fortunately, it's not like a Windows Update situation, where a particular browser is required to get OS updates. I would suggest perhaps reinstalling Firefox later, but I've tried that with Chromium in Lubuntu, and as soon as I reinstalled Chromium (the open-source version of Chrome), it wanted to 'be in charge' again.
It's good that there are so many people here with some prior background in Linux who have embraced Linux Lite. It has a structure and many features unique to it and it alone, yet many of the issues addressed here apply to pretty much any form of Ubuntu - or Linux in general.
I hope someone else will speak up - someone who can be of more assistance than I can be to you right now...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
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