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.
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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.
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