On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:26:34 -0800, Ezeloe Blanche Cloeiss wrote:
> "ray" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:56:41 -0800, Ezeloe Blanche Cloeiss wrote:
>>
>>> "ray" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:07:24 -0800, Ezeloe Blanche Cloeiss wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ubuntu sucks. Instead of moving forward with every release, they
>>>>> have the uncanny ability to take Linux back in time by piling code
>>>>> that doesn't work on top of more code that doesn't work until they
>>>>> have turned their OS into a garbage salad. 8.10 was GREAT, and for
>>>>> the most part everything worked. Some things were missing concerning
>>>>> support of newer Eees, but then they released Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04.
>>>>> 9.04 could only have been released completely untested, as they
>>>>> missed something as stupid as the Intel tiling kernel bug which
>>>>> caused every Intel card out there to crawl during any OpenGL
>>>>> function. There is no excuse for their release of alpha grade
>>>>> drivers and less than alpha grade kernel code into their release
>>>>> distribution.
>>>>
>>>> If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> In order to work around all of the bugs that 9.04 released as "gold"
>>>>> "stable" code, one must spend at a minimum 30 minutes replacing
>>>>> packages and patching mtrr bugs to get a reasonable level of
>>>>> performance out of their Eees. We spent days working on documenting
>>>>> all of the fixes that need to be applied to 9.04 to get it to some
>>>>> semblance of stable. Even then, don't turn compiz on and suspend
>>>>> because your super cool new "stable" version of xorg will
>>>>> consistently segfault leaving you at a GDM screen without your data
>>>>> being saved in any of the applications it unloads out from
>>>>> underneath itself.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now we have Karmic coming down the pike in just a few weeks, and
>>>>> xrandr can't even take you from 1024x600 to 800x600 even though it
>>>>> thinks it did. Not only that but since your rfkill devices are
>>>>> re-ordered at boot, the only way to get the right one is to trigger
>>>>> them both and hope for the best unless you like nasty greps in
>>>>> something that should respond instantly. When you consider WIFI if
>>>>> you don't trigger one, sleep, then trigger the other it's not going
>>>>> to work anyway even though it will think it did. If you trigger
>>>>> rfkill, but you see that NetworkManager still has your WIFI
>>>>> disabled, yeah, that's because it's looking at the other one. Oh and
>>>>> don't put away the force pciehp edit that you put in your menu.list
>>>>> for Jaunty because even though there's a cool kernel mode setting
>>>>> feature, they still haven't fixed that bug that's existed since
>>>>> *2.6.28*. No, there is nothing that I can do about the notifications
>>>>> clogging up your screens, Ubuntu's shiny new notification system
>>>>> STILL ignores the expiration time option from notify-send and
>>>>> apparently now defaults to more than 10 seconds before expiring a
>>>>> notification. Oh and the scripts that live in /etc/pm/power.d yeah
>>>>> they only trigger sometimes now. So, if you have my utilities
>>>>> installed in 9.10 and you are wondering why it doesn't trigger to
>>>>> powersave when you unplug power, you can thank the wonderful Ubuntu
>>>>> team for creating even more bugs in this "great" operating system by
>>>>> switching to devkit rather than choosing to stick with something
>>>>> stable and mature.
>>>>
>>>> You no likey; you no gotta usey. Open Source is all about CHOICE.
>>>
>>> With Open Source, most choose NOT to use Open Source. Ever wonder why
>>> Ubuntu is on very few desktops even though Ubuntu is FREE and has been
>>> FREE for years? Maybe it's because the product sucks and everyone
>>> knows it except you and Alias.
>>
>> Or, it could have something to do with the fact that it's virtually
>> impossible for the average consumer to even find it pre-loaded. BTW -
>> you'd have a hard sell to the patrons at the local library. 13 of 14
>> public access internet computers run Linux (not all Ubuntu, BTW) and
>> they seem to get along fine.
>
> Of course they are. At the library all they do is search the web or
> read e-mail. Ubuntu is capable of doing that.
>
> For most people, Ubuntu/Linux isn't an option because they want an
> Operating System that works and they don't want to have to use cryptic
> line commands to get that junk working.
Ah - I see you've not even tried it.
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