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.
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
Now, now. The child didn’t write bash, did they? Direct your anger at the people who hurt you.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
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.
Sounds about right.
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 Go ask on Ubuntu Forums for help, they’ll give you 5 different answers, all of which are wrong/outdated.
lol sux 2 b u bro
Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux!
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
operating in low graphics mode >:(
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.
I tried several. Ubuntu is the best. The king of the hill. But the hill is made of shit.
With a well-designed OS, it wouldn’t matter.
exactly
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!
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
Tangerine music sharing only works intermittently. Apparently if it can’t handle 1 song, it shuts down completely? >:[
And half the songs have the wrong name transmitted over the network.
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)
Free culture FTW!
Often, I’ll click “Reboot” and it will begin to shut down. The window decorations and toolbars will disappear, but then it will just stop, with decorationless windows still open and nothing happening. Eventually I’ll do a Ctrl+Alt+1, login, and sudo reboot now.
No, I don’t know why, either.
My experience is totally the opposite. Ubuntu is unstable and unreliable (crashes, lock ups, CPU being ground to a halt, booting problems, blue screen of X, etc.), while Windows 7 has been stable and reliable.
After my experiences, I don’t understand how anyone can claim that Linux is stable, and I have to wonder if they’re lying. But maybe experiences just differ.
1. Because rabid freetards on the Internet misled me by telling me it’s the Best OS Ever. It’s clearly not, so I’m trying to do my part to counteract the forces of evil and dispel this ongoing deception.
As I said in my first post, I tried other Linux distros before I found Ubuntu, and they drove me mad. Ubuntu’s the best Linux distro there is (as evidenced by it kicking all the others’ asses overnight in market share) but it still sucks by any objective standard. I’ve spent the last few years waiting for it to stop sucking, but it hasn’t. I’ve wasted far too much time on this experiment. Life is too short. I know many others feel the same way. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the download numbers decreasing over the last few years. Google Trends seems to show interest in Ubuntu is dropping off.
2. I’m looking for a new computer and it will probably be Windows 7, since that’s been working much more stably and reliably on my work computer, but I have so much invested in Ubuntu that it’s hard to switch.
Like an abusive relationship, I recognize on a rational level that Ubuntu is cruel to me and I should abandon it, but my brain still has this irrational emotional attachment to the “movement” associated with it. So I have to actively fight against my self-destructive tendencies by documenting my frustrations, so I can’t forget them.
In fact, I’d really like to continue using Ubuntu. It has some good qualities, and it’s free, and open source still seems like a good idea to me (the Kool-Aid must be very strong). But… as much as I would like it to stop sucking, I don’t see any evidence that it will happen any time soon, if ever. Canonical’s priorities appear to be:
1. Make it look like a Mac
2. Change default apps, realize this was a mistake, change them to something else with the next release, realize this was a mistake…
3. Improved boot time!
4. Shove it out the door on the release date, bugs or not
5. ???
I’m complaining and complaining everywhere I can, in the hopes that it helps open people’s eyes and influence their priorities, but it hasn’t had much effect. Bug reports just sit untouched for years. About a third of Ubuntu Forum’s members have “major problems” with every release, but there’s no improvement. Ubuntu sucks.
3. Those instructions are not “simple”. “Easy” has a meaning, you know.
My complaints are not at all unreasonable.
NTFS drivers are hogging the CPU, preventing me from doing anything