To learn Unix, learn to love one command: man. I’ll give you a few to start with
man intro
man bash
man man
Go crazy reading manpages. Between reading manpages, start poking around the filesystem and read every config file that looks interesting (and a lot of them have their own manpages). Just don’t do it as root.
You can’t just do that!! You can’t just link to an XKCD image and NOT show the alt text!
I tried bumblebee half a year ago and it was quite a pain to get working, but a few weeks ago I tried it again with fedora 17 and this tutorial and everything just worked.
Simple and easy now.
My advice: be prepared to quadruple your computer skills. Even the streamlined Ubuntu is still Linux at its heart and Linux requires that you know your stuff and are not easily deterred. Not when things go right, then it works even better and smoother than Windows. But when things inevitably go wrong you will scratch your head a lot. Its only a matter of time before your filesystem needs to be rebuilt, you get a kernel panic or you have a library conflict 
Heck - things get interesting when you want to do something as insanely weird as install a 3D enabled graphics driver to do some 3D stuff. I hope it works out of the box.
If you really want to get into linux try it the arch way.
I first tried it 3 weeks ago (never used Linux before) and I’m totally into it. Also: Awesome WM 8)
Thank you! I will try this soon. My current problem is that I used the program EasyLife because I thought it would be convenient but it would really be more fun to install programs myself and now I have to get rid of what EasyLife did which is becoming hard.
@DeadlyFugu
if that was an essay, you’ll get an A+ 8) thanx a lot !! am going to try the nVidia driver for linux and if i still have the fan issue i will try bumblebee, once it’s done i will install Eclipse and VLC and that’s it,that’s all i need ;D i didn’t play any AAA game for months now most of time am only using the browser (chrome) a media player (vlc) and eclipse
I failed to get Windows / Linux dual booting. The whole point was that I could run my benchmark app on multiple OSes on the same hardware, so it was a major fail moment. I don’t think the hard drive likes my repeated and haphazard attempts at re-partitioning, so I’m going to resurrect poor Linux on its own physically separate drive.
I have switched to nvidia just for better Linux support.
But alas I haven’t used Linux is a long while… but I hear the new Mint is excellent like always. Have nothing against Ubuntu per se, version 8 was great, but I loathe Unity.
Give me the Adobe Suite for Linux and then you could talk. I need to do video, image and audio editing on a regular basis, and I don’t have time to learn inferior alternatives.
Steam and Adobe Suite and we are all set.
Remember the first rule on dual-boot: You have to install the badass one later so its boot loader can detect the suck one.
Definitely the case in Windows-Linux. GRUB 2 is much prettier than the Windows Boot Loader.
There’s an option to use windows bootloader to boot unix. You can even use it to boot your mac. See EasyBCD at http://www.techspot.com/downloads/3112-easybcd.html
We use that when it can’t be helped, like you have linux first and want to add another. But heck I remember you can edit your grub by some lines of code to fix it.
So I’ve had problems with my video drivers moving to Fedora 18. I made a Fedora Forum post here describing the issue. I haven’t gotten any help there. If anyone could help me out, please do so. My screen is stuck at a resolution smaller than it can support on Windows, and it is annoying.
Perhaps the fedora forums are simply not so active. Its also not really related to a Linux distro, its more a topic for an nVidia forum.
I dig back into my brain and the only thing that I can remember is that when I had trouble with resolutions it was actually the configuration of the monitor and not the videocard that was wrong… but boy is that a vague memory, we’re talking 12-15 years ago. Based on your problem description it seems you don’t get widescreen resolutions.
On Windows I get 1366x768 resolution, so I’m just wondering why I can’t get the same on Fedora. I do get wide-screen resolutions, as my monitor is wide-screen and on Windows I do.
Have you installed the nvidia proprietary drivers?
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2013/fedora-18-nvidia-guide/
I went dual boot about six months ago. I’m posting more to get notified of advice than to contribute.
I’ve been doing “CattleDrive” course problems there. The “CattleDrive” is a course from JavaRanch, getting into JSP & database access. I’ve installed the Apache web server, and am using Ant, to get another perspective. But I still do most of my Java writing in Windows, via Eclipse. After getting through the course (or maybe somewhere along the way) I’ll install a proper IDE.
I ended up loading the Oracle Java 7 SDK. I can’t recall if there was a specific problem with the “default” Open JDK that led me to this. And it was a bit of an adventure figuring out a way to get all this configured, being new to Linux. Overall, I like the Ubuntu OS just fine.