A) o_O
“You are using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx - released in April 2010 and supported until April 2013.”
~> lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
B) No, I’d just go on Ubuntu Forums if I wanted “help” from the “community” of Ubuntu “experts”. Anyone running Ubuntu needs to go there for help on a regular basis just to keep their computers running. I’ve been doing that for years, and the experience is less than satisfactory.
And you seriously think you can “give me a hand” with a little hardware information? Look around. My experience isn’t just a little problem that could be solved on a forum thread. It’s a systemic clusterfuck of fail. This list of bad experiences isn’t even close to complete. For every unintelligible error message I’ve posted, I’ve seen at least a dozen others.
It’s too late now. I’ve given up on Ubuntu, and I’m buying a new Windows 7 computer as soon as I stop procrastinating and choose one. The point of this blog is not to get help, but to document the problems I experience with Ubuntu as a normal user; to provide a counterexample to the ubiquitous claims that Linux is stable, reliable, and problem-free.
With Compiz enabled, the “Show Desktop” button doesn’t actually show the desktop. The first click opens some windows in front of what you’re doing, and then the second click shows the desktop.
The normal Gnome desktop button, while identical in appearance, behaves as you would expect.
Sorry, but nope, the hardware’s fine. It was a dual-boot before the hard drive died and it’s always worked fine in Windows. The bizarre video fuck-ups only occur when I run Ubuntu and then try to suspend/resume. It’s been like this since I first installed it years ago. It’s kinda pretty, but not what you want to see when you go to use your computer and realize your work will be lost when you force a reboot. RSEIUB. Of course suspend/resume works on some computers running Ubuntu, but it doesn’t work on mine. People who claim that Linux works with all kinds of hardware are being intellectually dishonest, like cult members lying to themselves about unfulfilled prophecies to quell their cognitive dissonance.
Linux fanatics love to whine about how it’s the video card manufacturer’s fault or the laptop manufacturer’s fault or Microsoft’s fault or Intel’s fault or anyone, anything except Linux: No one cares. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.
Also, cropping an image in F-Spot is terrible.
Firefox is now crashing reliably every time I visit certain Wikipedia pages.
Bus error (core dumped)
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