B) Care to pass over your system information so we can all try to give you a hand?
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.