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| Thread ID: 104702 | 2009-11-05 10:29:00 | Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala | Erayd (23) | PC World Chat |
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| 827407 | 2009-11-05 10:29:00 | No surprises here :groan:. From www.theregister.co.uk Ubuntu 9.10 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Linux distro. Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel, and failure to get encryption running are taking their toll, as early adopters turn to the web for answers and log fresh bug reports in Ubuntu forums. [...] They're in good company, as more than a fifth of people upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 have reported issues they can't fix, according to an Ubuntuforums.org poll here. Only around 10 per cent of those upgrading or installing reported a completely flawless experience.See the article for more. In the meantime, I can only suggest (as I usually do anyway) that people avoid Ubuntu. There are plenty of newbie distros that don't break the way Ubuntu does, and if you're a more advanced user, there are much better options out there that beat the socks off Ubuntu anyway. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 827408 | 2009-11-05 15:51:00 | That might've been one of the main reasons for all the failures I had with Ubuntu - I had a very early Live-Run/Install disc that didn't seem to have too many troubles, but when I finally installed it and got some updates all hell broke loose . Right now - and I can say this with fair results so far - PCLOS is made for people like me who can play around with things like fig-Forth and other Basic and C+ programming and yet are completely lost in line commands that are the life blood of things "L" . OK - that might be a LITTLE misleading - as I haven't played around with much code at all in the past few years - but you get my idea . Make that 20+ years . I had thought there were some people who repair things like this in "overnights" or whatever . Somehow I labored under the impression that there are Twinkie & Red Bull-loadie-geek-types who oversee all things "L" and make repairs to this sortta thing - kinda like the cobbler's elves . Perhaps the ranks of jacked-up geek squads watching and repairing L-things is really a myth . AND - Perhaps there are some L-distros that are best left to the "expurts" ("x" being the unknown quotient and "spurt" is a drip under pressure) . I is just a user on the other hand . I doesn't write no code at all I is a-feared . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 827409 | 2009-11-05 18:23:00 | There are plenty of newbie distros that don't break the way Ubuntu does Any recommendations / preferences from yourself, for newbies? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 827410 | 2009-11-05 19:10:00 | Hey! If I can get PCLOS up-n-running - anyone can! I wish they had a tutorial for people who don't speak Geek about partitions though. Somehow I stumbled through it and got it closer to correct the third time. Other than that - it's EZ! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 827411 | 2009-11-05 19:11:00 | Any recommendations / preferences for newbies? Windows. :D |
pctek (84) | ||
| 827412 | 2009-11-05 19:13:00 | I've tried a fair few, and for the last few years it has been PCLinuxOS as the preferred option. Alone among all OS variants (Except Apple, which is kept on a bargepole) it has defaults I can live with if needed. OS seems to emphasise OPERATING System, as opposed to Over Sized. However, the most important thing is that we have freedom of choice. Windows for Newbs, Nappies for babies, both filled. ;) |
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