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Recently installed Ubuntu, some issues.

May 6, 2012 2:14AM PDT

Hello,

I have recently installed Ubuntu ( the latest version, I guess ) ... But it seems like it's complicating my life, I mean, some tasks are harder to get to do.

However, I am still not really understanding how does those .tar.gz files or archives (Whatever that is) work.

For instance, I have downloaded a utility program that lets me create custom Keyboard layouts. (I'd like to do so to assign some French symbols, I wouldn't like to use the copy paste method and I have no Numeric pad on my laptop ) This utility is supposed to make it easier than creating a Keyboard layout using Terminal, as I've seen in some tutorials.

Here's the link to the program if needed.

All I get is some archive with files in it, I've read the Readme text, but I can't really understand anything.

I'd like to get some easy steps to get through that, how can I run the program ?!
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The second issue is about the boot screen, it's showing up in some weird way, it's all black with some purple lines, I can't really explain how it's like, but I can't get to understand how is that happening.

I have an nVidia ION LE for the display, I don't know if the issue's coming from it, I didn't download (nor install) its drivers yet, but I'll keep it up to see if a solution is available before I install the drivers, if not I will mention additional information later.
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Lastly, I'd like to get informed about important things to do on Ubuntu... If needed, which AV should I choose ? How can I improve the system performance with some software like TuneUp which is for Windows ?

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Hope I get some answers soon, thanks in advance.
Adnan.

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I see this is very old.
May 6, 2012 2:17AM PDT
http://code.google.com/p/keyboardlayouteditor/ finds a discussion forum with a date of 2009

It's possible that the code is too old for this new OS. But they do supply source code for those that want to fix it.

For most, they'll want to keep hunting.
Bob
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So ?
May 6, 2012 2:21AM PDT

Am I supposed to get easier set-ups to newer programs ?

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I'm going with no.
May 6, 2012 2:51AM PDT

I have yet to see any big effort to make set-ups easier. It's been a hard road to get to this level of "easy."

If you had seen the old system around 1993 you would say today's stuff is very easy but for those that want as easy as operating a toaster? We're not there yet.
Bob