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#ubuntu #ubuntu sucks #window management

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#ubuntu sucks #ubuntu #not a submission

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#ubuntu #bug

July 2016

feeling violated after trying to install ubuntu and wiping out 3 HDs

First I tried to install using Ubuntu’s default/recommended method, it gave me a non-functional GRUB and non-functional Ubuntu OS and multiple HD partitions I didn’t want. Next I tried to install trying to customize so that only a small sector of one HD is used for installation, and it wiped out the said HD as well as 2 HDs I didn’t want the installer to touch. Debian too gave me non-functional GRUB and non-functional OS as well, but I thought Ubuntu install was worse than Debian install even before the loss of HDs. The difference was akin to dealing with a run-of-the-mill drunkard versus dealing with a burly violent drunkard with rapist mentality with omnivorous sexual appetite.

— hyh

Jul 14, 2016
#submission
So Ubuntu for a community place?

I’m from Debian (God rest its soul) and Ubuntu, well, came with free CDs in the mail.  10.04 LTS Kubuntu.  In fact, I’m in it right now.  First things first…

1) Why the hell is there a firefox installer in the KDE menu?

2) Why is wine only at 1.2?  Where is wine-unstable?  Backports???? This is suppose to be windows friendly for god sakes there should be a button somewhere that says “INSTALL UNSTABLE STUFF SOURCES HERE”

3) There was no pre-configuration for all of the shit that I just installed and am now running.  *PLOP* Oh look, corey@Guest:~$ ps aux | wc -l
132

Or take a look at this:

corey@Guest:~$ netstat -tapu 2> /dev/null | egrep ’^(udp|tcp)’ | awk ’{$2=“”;$3=“”;$NF=“”;print}’
tcp   localhost:ipp *:* LISTEN
tcp6   localhost:ipp [::]:* LISTEN
udp   *:bootpc *:*
udp   *:mdns *:*
udp   *:34832 *:*

I sure as hell can’t wait until I figure out why there is so much shit.  I might as well go into debian and go sudo apt-cache search a | awk ’{print $1}’ | tr ’\n’ ’ ’ | xargs sudo apt-get install

I think Ubuntu is better off getting KDE ported to DOS 1.0 and then going from there, because if Ubuntu wants to be like Windows/KDE…then ya might as well `rm -fr /` because trying to create shell scripts to manage GUI is not very portable.

I’d get Debian but for christ sakes I don’t have a CD-burner and to buy it costs like $15 and it comes with like 6 CDs.

So I say screw computers, because…No I love my computer don’t I yes yes yes *pets keyboard* that’s right listen to me yes…

So I was thinking about offering my Ubuntu 10.04 CD to a community place in my town…and then after working with Ubuntu I have realized that searching forums for its bullshit is like trying to grep /dev/random for a number sequence.  What the hell happened to a good ol’ `man`…you want to know what happened?  We’re not working with text-files anymore!  We’re not in control!  The GUI is in control.  And GUI can never ever ever ever EVER be managed by a shellscript.  It’s like trying to create a forum bot that managed the semantics of the english language.  Windows 7 is destined to fail.  Ubuntu is destined to fail.  The only OS that has any hope in this world is Debian, and blessed its apt-cache, wajig, dpkg, apt-get, debtags, aptitude, and every now and again synaptic…with REAL policies in the deb tags.

So am I going to introduce Ubuntu CDs to the community place in town to help with installing some OS that’s free? HELL NO!!!  They’re gonna be wasting a ratio of 2 hours : 20 minutes of usage on searching google for Ubuntu bullshit.  They’d be better off ignorant of the idea of a computer.  They’d be better off with Windows 7 that only had IE installed.  In fact they should make an Ubuntu where the only thing that’s installed is X11 where a Firefox window is maximized and the only thing you can do is left-click and type in a Google search.  Giving people options for software crap is like saying, “hey, yo, COME WITH ME!!!  It’s a great place full of so much cool stuff and you’ll love it!” And then you get sucked in and you realize how much time you’ve been wasting trying to find solutions to GUI managed bullshit.  And plus, where are the khotkeys configuration?  I even tried that one on Google, because the service is running, so where the hell are the KEYS!!??  Why isn’t unstable packages on here, or as an options, AM I SUPPOSE TO GOOGLE FOR THAT TOO????????  Ubuntu, do us all a favor and change your Web site to “Ubuntu has been abandoned, we have converted the Ubuntu project funds to give away free Debian CDs.“  Way to go Ubuntu, way to go.

— Corey

Jul 14, 2016 1 note
#submission
Oh, and one more thing ... that crashed installer is a symptom of a bad installer medium or using a USB drive (does not work with quite a few distros). So just to be safe, burn it to a cd and verify the disc. Also, double-check by running the "check disc for defects option" in the cd boot menu (press any key when you see the white on purple keyboard/person when booting from cd).

Nah.  Windows works fine.

Jul 14, 2016
too buggy

Yes

Jul 14, 2016
Why did I let Ubuntu in to my life?!

Partly my fault because I am easily sucked in to things and want to be part of the hype. After reading around forums on how great Ubuntu was I tried it out on USB and liked it. ‘Why not fully install it Stephen, this is a great idea!’. I installed it and was well happy. This soon changed after a laggy response in opening firefox, the software centre and most things. I couldn’t download or simply install anything either. I’m in the middle of my uni project so i saved all of my work on usb pen and emailed it to myself. Tried opening it in Ubuntu and just a couple of weird symbols. crap. This is the same for everything. I need a stat program called SPSS, you cant get it for Linux. crap.

ok.. i’ll make the best from a bad situation and try to improve my lags… after reading 5 forums from 2009 i type in a load of useless commands in terminal to only open up blank document where nothing can be done.

ok…. i’ll revert back to windows 7 but this little legend has only completely deleted it. Yes! So i’m now searching how to install XP but its telling me I have to type more crap in to terminal. Its an absolute nightmare! Everyones happy to persuade you that its great but once you join your given instructions like “yeah you want to reroute the cyberkinetic fibreboard to 0 before enabling the hash mycelium throughout the core drive” (posted 3 years ago so its now super bull$hit). I truly dont understand why you want a OS that has limited programs you can download, you constantly have to tweak and type $hit in. Windows 7 is the bomb for mega noobs like me and linux sucks a$$ IMO. FML

— Stephen

Jul 14, 2016
#submission
I got suckered into thinking Ubuntu is the greatest as well. Now I'm stuck with this POS operating system. I can't even watch YouTube videos because the whole computer slows down to a crawl and the video starts to stutter. I haven't been able to update in a long time because my /boot is full (while I still have a few hundred gig's of room left on the hard drive) but I cannot find a straight answer on how to empty it out. I hate Ubuntu so much.

🤗

Jul 14, 2016
Submissions

So I don’t really use Ubuntu much anymore (except on my goddamn server), and I opened this to submissions a while ago.  So some of these posts are by other people now. 

I also don’t use Tumblr very much, however, so I may be Doing It Wrong.  I guess I indicate submissions by tagging them with #submission? 

Sorry if I’m fucking this up.  At least I’m fucking it up from a Windows machine.

Jul 14, 2016
#not a submission
Troll.

Fanboy.

Jul 14, 2016
Live USB == Bricked USB

I tried to make a live usb.
Now I have a bricked usb-stick.
Thanks Ubuntu ! *sarcasm* 

Jul 14, 2016
#submission
you tried Linux Mint? It's technically Ubuntu, but has a non-retarded interface.

Yes

Jul 14, 2016

I needed to clone the hard drive in my computer. So I booted the Ubuntu live DVD, opened up a terminal, and launched a dd to clone the drive. I wouldn’t be needing the computer for several hours, so it was the perfect opportunity. I came back several hours later, and Ubuntu had PUT ITSELF TO SLEEP. It saw that there was all this disk IO going on, so it just decided to PUT ITSELF TO SLEEP. Ubuntu knows that sleep fails 99.9% of the time. I have no idea whether the clone had completed before the stupid idiot Ubuntu people PUT THE COMPUTER ASLEEP WHILE IT WAS BUSY DOING WORK. So I have to find another 3 hour period of time to do the clone again. You know, it’s not about whether Ubuntu is free or not. It about that the people who work on it are so cripplingly stupid. They could run down one of my family members, or blow up their neighborhood because they deliberately left the gas on. They are the single stupidest single congregation of people the earth has ever known. 

Jul 14, 2016 1 note
#submission
Have you tried Arch Linux?

🙄

Have you tried Windows?

Jul 14, 2016
16.04 live disc and "reinstall"

So let’s say you tried, like a genius, to upgrade to 16.04, because you were having USB problems that may and may not be related to the upgrade to 14.04 that puked all over itself and that you went in and spent several hours fixing by hand. And that has of course failed even more spectacularly, leaving you with a machine that does boot, but has no networking and package dependency hell that nothing will fix and a bunch of corrupted packages and and and.

So now you’ve made a live DVD-ROM and started the “reinstall” operation from that, because hey, maybe that’ll work, and it’ll try to preserve your app configuration and HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA <cries>

First thing it does: Scans your system partition to see what apps might be there that it should keep, then deletes all the OS files so it can do a clean reinstall. Cool.

Second thing it does: Unmounts your system partition.

Third thing it does: Tries to remount your system partition that it just unmounted. Assumes said system partition (which, I remind you, it had just had mounted and working) is ext2, rather than the ext4 it actually is, go “oh wow hey this isn’t ext2 fuck if I know” and crap out, leaving you with a now utterly unbootable, no-OS non-install, a need to hard-reboot the machine, and a need to rebuild the hard drive.

Who do I need to kill to get some killing around here?

Jul 14, 2016 1 note
#submission

April 2016

Apr 17, 2016
#ubuntu #ubuntu sucks #linux sucks

August 2014

Finally forced to “upgrade” to 14.04

  • Upgrader tool crapped the bed because my internet connection went down for 1 minute.
  • Upgrader tool halted repeatedly, asking me if I want to overwrite my customized config files with default maintainer ones.  No dipshit, merge the changes together.  If you can’t figure out how, show me a 3-way merge with a nice GUI so I can decide which changes I want to keep.  And DON’T INTERRUPT THE INSTALLATION FOR THIS AND SIT THERE DOING NOTHING FOR HOURS.  Ask at the end of the upgrade.
  • Gnome panel no longer exists.  Just windows with no desktop.  Have to run gnome-panel by hand?
  • VNC stopped working, none of the proposed solutions work.
Aug 17, 2014
#ubuntu #crap
Aug 17, 2014
#ubuntu #user-friendliness #upgrade
Aug 17, 2014
#ubuntu #samba
Aug 16, 2014
#ubuntu #fail #user interface #user-friendliness

March 2014

Mar 10, 2014 1 note
#Ubuntu #BSOD

April 2012

if you wanted to challenge something claimed as stable and reliable, you should had gone onto debian. ubuntu is canonical's proposition to get a linux distro for a non-geek audience. that's why they have ditched gnome shell, kde and other desktops for unity. and all the issues you said for unity have been corrected in 12.04, which comes out thursday and i recommend it to you.

I tried Debian before Ubuntu.  It’s even worse.  At least Ubuntu tries to be usable, even if they have no idea what they’re doing.

Apr 23, 2012 5 notes
#Ubuntu #Debian

Agh!  Why is there a “Suspend” option next to “Log out”?  Everyone knows suspend has never worked in Ubuntu and never will.  Now I have to go hold down the power button until my computer restarts.

Apr 23, 2012 11 notes
#Ubuntu #suspend
Apr 23, 2012 8 notes
#Ubuntu #usability

It’s a good thing Ubuntu provides an on-screen keyboard for all the times your Bluetooth keyboard will inexplicably stop working when it worked perfectly fine for months prior.

Apr 23, 2012 1 note
#Ubuntu

March 2012

Ubuntu is not supposed to be " "stable", "reliable", "easy to use", "Just Works", or is somehow better than Windows." (at least as far as I can tell) It is supposed to provide an alternative to Windows (as Windows is really stupid if you are trying to compile something) and plus, it's free, so the fact that if boots at all is pretty amazing.

ItsFreeYouCantComplain™

Mar 8, 2012

February 2012

What ever happened to the feeling of ubuntu in Ubuntu?

Yeah, the idealism behind it is the only reason I put up with it for 4 years.

Feb 28, 2012
Try holding PrtSrc for more than a second XD

On my laptop PrtSrc is near the Ctrl key. I was accidentaly holding it for about 10 seconds, the machine froze for about 5-10 minutes. Afterwards I had to close several dozen print screen dialogs.

Submitted by Davorin

Feb 28, 2012

January 2012

Wow, Unity sucks.

I really like the idea of a search-based interface.  I use it in Windows all the time.

Of course, the Ubuntu version feels like it was created by people who don’t understand what search is, and are just cargo-cult-copying their competitors’ features without comprehending what makes them good, and then, of course, removing every other avenue for finding things, because the search should be good enough.  Except that it’s not, because it only finds things if you type in an exactly correct string, so you have to be born already knowing exactly what to type, which defeats the whole purpose of a search and makes it just like a command line.  Oh wait.

Jan 2, 2012 3 notes
#Ubuntu

December 2011

I have my home server set to auto-login, specifically so that it will mount all external drives at startup.  It no longer mounts drives at startup.  Whyyyyyyyyy

Dec 4, 2011 142 notes
#Ubuntu #mount
I can't install anything. It gives me the source files and no commands to actually install anything whatsoever. I'm probably just being an idiot but I'm going to tie my laptop to a grenade and throw it at a child soon.

Now, now.  The child didn’t write bash, did they?  Direct your anger at the people who hurt you.

Dec 4, 2011
after installing linux (lubuntu) on my netbook I wanted to kill myself.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255

Dec 4, 2011

November 2011

a typical scenario on a ubuntu support forum. "Hey how do I change my _____" Answer: Oh it's very simple just open terminal type config amd corg xde4 then specify your values, then open up commander and download synpatic package version 10.1 (don't get version 9.4 or lower, it will cause your harddrive to corrupt itself) then install that run terminal again display prompt type in grub2 /autoconfig but don't forget to make sure you have admin privileges enabled, to enable admin privileges, open..

haha yes.  Or they give you some command line crap that worked for them 5 years ago, but 1. It’s obsolete, doesn’t work anymore, and screws up your system and 2. There’s an easy GUI method now that they’re completely ignorant of.

Nov 8, 2011 1 note
ubuntu/lubuntu/linux ruined my netbook. thank god it's old and not worth much but still. a usable computer now turned into buggy trash. fyi, the lubuntu can't display images well... you get these black spots on almost all pics. it's so weird.

Sounds about right.

Nov 7, 2011
Well, if people ask you questions about Ubuntu or Linux support, they won't get far.

They won’t get far if they use Ubuntu or Linux, period.  Go ask on Ubuntu Forums for help, they’ll give you 5 different answers, all of which are wrong/outdated.

Nov 7, 2011
How do i remove lubuntu?! omg... i hate this so much. i partitioned it so i am supposed to have windows still, but i can't boot it. i also tried pressing f11 for system restore, but lubuntu overrode that too! WTF?!

lol sux 2 b u bro

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux!

Nov 7, 2011

June 2011

Ubuntu, now with more bugs!

More new bugs with every release!  You never know what will stop working for no explicable reason next!  Collect them all!

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/754297

Jun 19, 2011 2 notes
#Ubuntu #bug

How is it that there are 150 GB of data in my .local/share/Trash that isn’t being deleted when I empty the trash?

Jun 14, 2011
#Ubuntu #trash
Jun 8, 2011 4 notes
#Ubuntu #Linux Mint #distro #error

Now the only reason I use Ubuntu on a daily basis is as a home network server.  You’d think it would be good at that, since Linux is all server-y and everything, but no.  Samba, the one thing I’m really depending on, just stops working for no fucking reason.

Jun 7, 2011 4 notes
#Ubuntu #samba

May 2011

To install GNU ddrescue

In order to use GNU ddrescue, you’ll need to install the package gddrescue.

Do not install the package ddrescue.  That will install dd_rescue, instead, which is totally different and obsolete, but still included in the package repositories under the name of its successor.

May 23, 2011
#Ubuntu #package-management
Bluetooth keyboard

does not work. 

…

But oh, look, it’s a solved problem!   All you have to do is edit the source code for the kernel and recompile it.  What could be easier.

May 23, 2011 21 notes
#Ubuntu #bluetooth
Display not recognized

operating in low graphics mode >:(

May 23, 2011
#Ubuntu #video

March 2011

The end?

I’ve been running a Thinkpad with Windows 7 on it for most of 2011.  I have very few complaints.  Nothing’s perfect, of course, but it’s leaps and bounds better than Ubuntu, and any complaints I have aren’t even memorable enough to create i-hate-windows-7.tumblr.com. 

Like, the built-in backup system asks me to manually delete old backups to make space for new ones, instead of just doing it automatically.  Oh well.  Not that big of a deal.  At least it has a built-in backup system.  At least the built-in backup system warns me when it hasn’t been successful lately instead of just failing silently cough cough Simple Backup Suite.

I’m still running Ubuntu on a home server and a virtual machine, so I might still post here, just not as often.

Mar 5, 2011 1 note
#relief #windows 7 #Ubuntu

December 2010

Why not just get a different distro instead of hammering on Ubuntu just because YOU had problems?

I tried several. Ubuntu is the best.  The king of the hill.  But the hill is made of shit.

Dec 31, 2010
#Ubuntu #distro #UseDistroX™
Are you an experienced linux user or just a starter linux user?

With a well-designed OS, it wouldn’t matter.

Dec 31, 2010
#Ubuntu #ItsYourFault™
I also HATE Ubuntu now. I cannot keep an internet connection with it to save my life. It does not work. I hate Windows, but hate Ubuntu even more.

exactly

Dec 31, 2010
#Ubuntu #hate
I hate Ubuntu too!

Due to some stupid problem with my graphics card I was recommended by a friend (who is a professional system administrator or something) to install Ubuntu. I used to run windows xp as its my old trashy pc and that was far from perfect. At first I was like wow! This is really fast and stable. But after a week I am so done with it. Then it wont stream movies, then it wont mount external hard drives, then it wont mount my mp3 player, then in wont copy files, then Openoffice completely fucks up my paper. I am willing to admit half of these problems must be caused by my n00bness but man am I done with this shit. Userfriendly my ass!

Dec 31, 2010
If you hate Ubuntu so much, what do you not hate?

My Ubuntu laptop died, so I was using a MacBook Pro for a few months.  I hate it, too, but not as much as I hate Ubuntu.

Now I got a new laptop with Windows 7.  It has some annoyances and stupidities, but the overall experience is much better than Ubuntu. (Still running Ubuntu in a virtual machine and a desktop, so I will still complain, just less often.)

So it’s not so much a matter of which OS I hate, but which I hate more.  Ubuntu is the worst of the three by far.

Windows 7 > Mac OS ≫ Ubuntu

Dec 31, 2010
#Ubuntu #Windows 7 #LinuxHateIsMicrosoftLove™
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