G+_Woody Miller Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Have an issue. I am running Linux, Ubuntu 12.04LTS and up until 12/13/13 all apps running perfect. However, that evening I attempted to watch netflix and received the below screen. Any help or advice to get Netflix back would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Miller Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I'm even more curious as to how you were getting Netflix to run on Linux anyway. I know there was/is a hack that uses a specially patched version of wine with silverlight and Firefox. I believe it's called Netflix Desktop. http://goo.gl/EVSL2o I tried it once and it didn't work well for me but others have reported more success.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fuzzy Wuzzy Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 If you're watching netflix on linux, you're using pipelight or netflix-desktop, right? Sometimes Netflix gets smart and tries to get the useragent spec of the browser, which will admit that you're on linux. Grab a plugin that changes it, look for "user agent switcher" or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Cecel Armani Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Hey I want to start using Linux how do I get started? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fuzzy Wuzzy Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Off topic, but I'll answer anyway: start here to download a popular and easy to use distribution called mint: http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php You want to flip a coin and choose either MATE or Cinnamnon desktop (similar functionality, different looks) and choose your architecture for 32 or 64 bit based on your processor. Burn to DVD with http://www.imgburn.com/ or to a usb drive with http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/, and reboot from disk. That will get you to a live desktop that you can try out and then install. If you have any troubles, start a new thread and we'll be able to troubleshoot from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Woody Miller Posted December 20, 2013 Author Share Posted December 20, 2013 Thanks for the help. Got netflix back using netflix desktop on one box. Not so fortunate on the other, launch doesn't perform. Thanks and appreciate all the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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