Ubuntu Installation Experience With Windows 8 preinstalled

(This is mainly a record for myself when I need to do all these agian in the future. No any suggestion for others.)

I bought a new laptop with Windows 8 preinstalled recently. In UEFI mode, it is completely suffering when trying to install a new Ubuntu with Windows 8. Right now, you may spend a lot of time and effort, but still fail to do that finally.

After 2-3 days, I decided to completely remove Windows 8 in UEFI mode (the disk partition is ugly anyway), and switched the fireware mode to LEGACY mode. Then in LEGACY mode, I installed Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS.

Always remember there can be only 4 primary partitions in the disk in this way. There seems to be a "System Reserved" partition in Windows 7, which is also a primary partition. The partition used for Ubuntu 12.04.5 is an extended partition, which is also a primary partition. As a result, theoretically, there are only two primary partitions left, which you can use for Windows 7. Of course, there are other solutions, just take care of these.

Something else to take care for other softwares in Ubuntu 12.04.5:

1) I just noticed that there is already a mature Chinese input software called Sogou Pinyin. A small problem: the "setting" shows to use "Shift" to switch between English and Chinese input, however, it is "Ctrl+Space", maybe only for the first time, then "Shift" works, I don't know why. Maybe "Ctrl+Space" is used to switch between the original Ubuntu input and Sogou input. 

2) (Wrong way to install Dropbox) Dropbox installation messes up the software center. If you unfortunately direcely install Dropbox from the software center, the software center may stuck in "applying the changes" finally. 

If that happens:

First, check (http://askubuntu.com/questions/194946/ubuntu-software-center-stuck-in-applying-canceling-searcing)

I did
sudo killall -9 software-center
sudo killall -9 dpkg

Then, check (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-dropbox/+bug/1016559)

1. Run, as you did before:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
2. Press CONTROL+C to before the download of Dropbox tries to do anything.
3. Remove dropbox:
sudo apt-get purge nautilus-dropbox

Finally, maybe:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Since I am not an expert in Linux, this is all what I have done and it works.

(Correct way to install Dropbox)
Check (http://askubuntu.com/questions/154671/dropbox-install-stuck-at-99-how-do-i-fix-it-and-any-dpkg-errors)

  • Download the Dropbox .deb file from: https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx
  • Open the .deb with Ubuntu Software Center and begin installation
  • When you see the screen saying "Start Dropbox to finish installation", press CLOSE
  • Install the dropbox daemon (nautilus-dropbox) using this command (fromhttps://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx):
    cd ~ && wget -O - "https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64" | tar xzf -
    [ for 32bit, just change detail to ?plat=lnx.x86 ]
  • Restart computer






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