Ah, you need to use an editor which can handle Greek coded text! Because the raw text is ASCII and can't handle special characters such as Chinese, Greek, Kyrillic etc.!
Try Gedit as the editor and install Greek language packages from Gnome language selector.
In many programs you can change the character coding scheme used to display the text correctly.
I'll have to try something of these. Ubuntu doesn't seem to be made for this part of the world.
More news tomorrow. It's late and I have to wake up early in the morning. Thanks everybody!
Google it: Ubuntu has the largest support community. It can handle special characters very well if configured correctly.
I can understand. Things like language settings, printer setup, virtual machines are not easy for beginners and need some time to get working. But once sorted you save tons of time for the rest of your life.
Try Kate for editing. You may want to try Kubuntu also.
Kate really works well for programming assorted languages as far as helping with marking braces and so fourth.
I have run Kubuntu for years and it can be good for a stable desktop/music player.
Kate really works well for programming assorted languages as far as helping with marking braces and so fourth.
I have run Kubuntu for years and it can be good for a stable desktop/music player.
You can install Ubuntu, and install XFCE and KDE and GNOME on top of it and choose between them on login.
I use Debian sid as my daily driver, but I would be the last to suggest that for someone new to Linux and/or who just wants a smooth ride. I recently installed Linux Mint 20.3 with Cinnamon in a virtual machine to have persistent access to KiCad 5. (I have a ton of recent and legacy KiCad 5 projects that I don't especially want to port to KiCad 6.) I have to say that I'm impressed.
I started using Linux when it was only a stack of Slackware CDs. I had to recompile the kernel to get my mechanical mouse working. Every year since then I have seen steady improvement. I abandoned Microsoft Windows about 5 years ago.
I have tried several distros and find that Xubuntu-XFCE is the best.
I have tried several distros and find that Xubuntu-XFCE is the best.
Funny, I'd ask why is windows so frustrating. I think it depends where you came from. I came from multi-user systems from IBM, DEC, Sun, HP, Silicon Graphics... For the last 30 years it has mainly been a UNIX machine, and UNIX in college as well. For me Windows is unusable. The first thing I do when I get a new machine is wipe it and put linux on. I'd be a very unhappy camper but for Linus.
I went from a windows-only zealot to a cheap, used mac laptop and a virtual machine of the other operating systems-- multiple instances of Ubuntu and a 64-bit Windows 7 for everything else. MacOS is unpopular, for a number of valid reasons, but once you get how to access everything, the terminal is very similar to other linux-based command lines. This is probably because it is one. Apple figured out how to make Linux appealing to the masses ages ago and has been gutting people for it ever since. I hate how much I like it.
I just can't use mac's. I got used to focus follows mouse and mac insists on click to focus. Drives me nuts. I think windows is also the click to focus model. X11 has always allowed the window manager to set policies like that. Sure it is more complex to setup, but the flexibility of how windows work under X is just amazing. I was doing remote display (like VNC does now) in the 80's. My latest project is to adapt my IC schematic/layout editor for use as a front end to pcb.
It just depends on what you know and what you're used to, which shouldn't be a surprise. Windows is solid as a rock for me and does what I need. Compatibility in a business environment is job #1. I tried Ubuntu in VirtualBox and found it unusable. Maybe better as a native install, but nothing I need and desire to run is compatible with it. Even the things that should have worked were a PITA. In another environment it might be just the ticket, but IMHO it will always be a niche thing.
Linux, the kernel, which is the real operating system's brain, depends on modules (known as drivers in Windows), which further depend on the will of manufacturers to cooperate with Linux code writers to publish information about their hardware. Many manufacturers refuse to cooperate as they do not want to give any information which may provide hints as to how their hardware works. Therefore, any Linux user must bear in their mind, that some kernel modules/hardware drivers are NOT available, notwithstanding, a Linux user might be among the best of driver writers. This is the truth, and the reason for its existence, is aggressive market competition.
For instance, I have a Hantek USB digital sampling oscilloscope for which there is NO Linux driver. The only drivers are reverse engineered and more often than not, they fail to function. Reverse engineers have found, that the manufacturer, is so competively aggressive, that they coded the firmware to refuse to send information back to a connected computer if information requests are not in a predefined sequence.
For instance, I have a Hantek USB digital sampling oscilloscope for which there is NO Linux driver. The only drivers are reverse engineered and more often than not, they fail to function. Reverse engineers have found, that the manufacturer, is so competively aggressive, that they coded the firmware to refuse to send information back to a connected computer if information requests are not in a predefined sequence.
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I was right thinking that Linux is popular in this forum. 👍 Windows stability and simplicity is not to underestimate but I feel I had enough with MS aggressive policy. It takes a couple of years to render any machine obsolete.
Text editor writes in Greek when language is set. It doesn't read it when it was written elsewhere. It's a matter of code as it was pointed. But the files that trouble me are srt subtitles and although the editor will show them as alien script, I managed to set VLC to read them correctly, so I check this fixed.
As a beginner I'll avoid to use the terminal to change things. I'm going to try a few distro suggested here hoping to find one that works out of the box for me.
Text editor writes in Greek when language is set. It doesn't read it when it was written elsewhere. It's a matter of code as it was pointed. But the files that trouble me are srt subtitles and although the editor will show them as alien script, I managed to set VLC to read them correctly, so I check this fixed.
As a beginner I'll avoid to use the terminal to change things. I'm going to try a few distro suggested here hoping to find one that works out of the box for me.
Maybe time to left Ubuntu ? I move from it to Pop_OS on my Razer Balde 2020 and I win !!.
All hardware works out in box include hybrid graphics ( you choose witch gfx works with open app).
I'm a really suprice how it good is . Only default WM is ugly - I never like gnome desktop 🙂
All hardware works out in box include hybrid graphics ( you choose witch gfx works with open app).
I'm a really suprice how it good is . Only default WM is ugly - I never like gnome desktop 🙂
The Cinnamon desktop environment is available on many distributions and would be a popular choice.
Back in the Day I would chk with IBM and Compaq to see what Distros they were using.
On the boxes they were moving. Its hard to beat that. And you can bet they have all the drivers.
Don't worry about the interface for now.
Just focus on testing various distros. It will take max 10 min per distro. Create USB stick, fire it up, fire a print.
You will find something that works. Once you get past that they worry about what GUI interface you like.
Also it pays to check the printer / scanner companies web site. Many times they have drivers that you just need to download and install. If your still stuck just give me your scanner model and Ill have one of the boy find out which distro will work.We have over 10,000 members in my bike club and most are in I.T.
On the boxes they were moving. Its hard to beat that. And you can bet they have all the drivers.
Don't worry about the interface for now.
Just focus on testing various distros. It will take max 10 min per distro. Create USB stick, fire it up, fire a print.
You will find something that works. Once you get past that they worry about what GUI interface you like.
Also it pays to check the printer / scanner companies web site. Many times they have drivers that you just need to download and install. If your still stuck just give me your scanner model and Ill have one of the boy find out which distro will work.We have over 10,000 members in my bike club and most are in I.T.