I hate Ubuntu >:(
A) Why are you running 10.10? Its not been released yet.
B) Care to pass over your system information so we can all try to give you a hand?
Anonymous

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.