Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud

http://beginlinux.com/desktop/ubuntu/beginners-guide-to-ubuntu-one-personal-cloud

by aweber • 14 years ago

26 10 14 years ago

This article seems to skip on one of the most important aspects of Ubuntu One for me: syncing my /Home folder.

I've been keeping my photos/documents synced across platforms for years with Dropbox. Ubuntu Ones service is significantly slower at this procedure... BUT, Dropbox doesn't give me the flexibility to sync my config files (or if it does, I have no idea how.)

Keeping my config files synced is immeasurably more valuable for me across my Ubuntu machines and makes a re-install much more pleasurable. I no longer need to spend the hour or so I used to setting up my software the way I like it... it just works.

meaty• 14 years ago

I just use a single laptop with a dock. Saves all the hassle of synchronisation.

Random_Person3• 14 years ago

Well, yes... if only. I have my two work machines... which don't go home with me... and my two personal machines. I would, however, love to have a dock to replace my work desktop.

akurtzhs• 14 years ago

Couldn't you just store your config files in Dropbox and make symlinks? For example, my .vimrc is a symlink to Dropbox/.vimrc

Random_Person3• 14 years ago

Sure, but then I have to rebuild those symlinks after install... now, I don't do installs every 30 days like some Linux users, but I do upgrade with each new release and having stuff "just work" is just simply beautiful.

spindritf• 14 years ago

Ubuntu One's killer app is Tomboy[1] which can use it to synchronize across computers and Androids[2] and is consistently the app I use the most after the terminal and browser. For everything: scribbling, grocery/shopping/todo lists, things to remember, personal wiki articles...

[1] http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/features.html [2] https://launchpad.net/tomdroid (use the beta provided as an .apk in the sidebar)

randomsearch• 14 years ago

If you don't have a problem with commercial software, you'll probably find Evernote [1] a great improvement on Tomboy.

[1] http://evernote.com

ComputerGuru• 14 years ago

Evernote has one of the least-intuitive, most-bloated UIs I've ever seen.

I was a fan of Wunderlist, but it seems that the product is no longer updated.

yarrel• 14 years ago

Is Tomboy still a C# bridgehead or has it been rewritten?

Mavrik• 14 years ago

Why does it matter?

Beginners' Guide To Ubuntu One Personal Cloud

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