I hate Ubuntu >:(
feeling violated after trying to install ubuntu and wiping out 3 HDs

First I tried to install using Ubuntu’s default/recommended method, it gave me a non-functional GRUB and non-functional Ubuntu OS and multiple HD partitions I didn’t want. Next I tried to install trying to customize so that only a small sector of one HD is used for installation, and it wiped out the said HD as well as 2 HDs I didn’t want the installer to touch. Debian too gave me non-functional GRUB and non-functional OS as well, but I thought Ubuntu install was worse than Debian install even before the loss of HDs. The difference was akin to dealing with a run-of-the-mill drunkard versus dealing with a burly violent drunkard with rapist mentality with omnivorous sexual appetite.

— hyh

So Ubuntu for a community place?

I’m from Debian (God rest its soul) and Ubuntu, well, came with free CDs in the mail.  10.04 LTS Kubuntu.  In fact, I’m in it right now.  First things first…

1) Why the hell is there a firefox installer in the KDE menu?

2) Why is wine only at 1.2?  Where is wine-unstable?  Backports???? This is suppose to be windows friendly for god sakes there should be a button somewhere that says “INSTALL UNSTABLE STUFF SOURCES HERE”

3) There was no pre-configuration for all of the shit that I just installed and am now running.  *PLOP* Oh look, corey@Guest:~$ ps aux | wc -l
132

Or take a look at this:

corey@Guest:~$ netstat -tapu 2> /dev/null | egrep ’^(udp|tcp)’ | awk ’{$2=“”;$3=“”;$NF=“”;print}’
tcp   localhost:ipp *:* LISTEN
tcp6   localhost:ipp [::]:* LISTEN
udp   *:bootpc *:*
udp   *:mdns *:*
udp   *:34832 *:*

I sure as hell can’t wait until I figure out why there is so much shit.  I might as well go into debian and go sudo apt-cache search a | awk ’{print $1}’ | tr ’\n’ ’ ’ | xargs sudo apt-get install

I think Ubuntu is better off getting KDE ported to DOS 1.0 and then going from there, because if Ubuntu wants to be like Windows/KDE…then ya might as well `rm -fr /` because trying to create shell scripts to manage GUI is not very portable.

I’d get Debian but for christ sakes I don’t have a CD-burner and to buy it costs like $15 and it comes with like 6 CDs.

So I say screw computers, because…No I love my computer don’t I yes yes yes *pets keyboard* that’s right listen to me yes…

So I was thinking about offering my Ubuntu 10.04 CD to a community place in my town…and then after working with Ubuntu I have realized that searching forums for its bullshit is like trying to grep /dev/random for a number sequence.  What the hell happened to a good ol’ `man`…you want to know what happened?  We’re not working with text-files anymore!  We’re not in control!  The GUI is in control.  And GUI can never ever ever ever EVER be managed by a shellscript.  It’s like trying to create a forum bot that managed the semantics of the english language.  Windows 7 is destined to fail.  Ubuntu is destined to fail.  The only OS that has any hope in this world is Debian, and blessed its apt-cache, wajig, dpkg, apt-get, debtags, aptitude, and every now and again synaptic…with REAL policies in the deb tags.

So am I going to introduce Ubuntu CDs to the community place in town to help with installing some OS that’s free? HELL NO!!!  They’re gonna be wasting a ratio of 2 hours : 20 minutes of usage on searching google for Ubuntu bullshit.  They’d be better off ignorant of the idea of a computer.  They’d be better off with Windows 7 that only had IE installed.  In fact they should make an Ubuntu where the only thing that’s installed is X11 where a Firefox window is maximized and the only thing you can do is left-click and type in a Google search.  Giving people options for software crap is like saying, “hey, yo, COME WITH ME!!!  It’s a great place full of so much cool stuff and you’ll love it!” And then you get sucked in and you realize how much time you’ve been wasting trying to find solutions to GUI managed bullshit.  And plus, where are the khotkeys configuration?  I even tried that one on Google, because the service is running, so where the hell are the KEYS!!??  Why isn’t unstable packages on here, or as an options, AM I SUPPOSE TO GOOGLE FOR THAT TOO????????  Ubuntu, do us all a favor and change your Web site to “Ubuntu has been abandoned, we have converted the Ubuntu project funds to give away free Debian CDs.“  Way to go Ubuntu, way to go.

— Corey

Why did I let Ubuntu in to my life?!

Partly my fault because I am easily sucked in to things and want to be part of the hype. After reading around forums on how great Ubuntu was I tried it out on USB and liked it. ‘Why not fully install it Stephen, this is a great idea!’. I installed it and was well happy. This soon changed after a laggy response in opening firefox, the software centre and most things. I couldn’t download or simply install anything either. I’m in the middle of my uni project so i saved all of my work on usb pen and emailed it to myself. Tried opening it in Ubuntu and just a couple of weird symbols. crap. This is the same for everything. I need a stat program called SPSS, you cant get it for Linux. crap.

ok.. i’ll make the best from a bad situation and try to improve my lags… after reading 5 forums from 2009 i type in a load of useless commands in terminal to only open up blank document where nothing can be done.

ok…. i’ll revert back to windows 7 but this little legend has only completely deleted it. Yes! So i’m now searching how to install XP but its telling me I have to type more crap in to terminal. Its an absolute nightmare! Everyones happy to persuade you that its great but once you join your given instructions like “yeah you want to reroute the cyberkinetic fibreboard to 0 before enabling the hash mycelium throughout the core drive” (posted 3 years ago so its now super bull$hit). I truly dont understand why you want a OS that has limited programs you can download, you constantly have to tweak and type $hit in. Windows 7 is the bomb for mega noobs like me and linux sucks a$$ IMO. FML

— Stephen

Live USB == Bricked USB

I tried to make a live usb.
Now I have a bricked usb-stick.
Thanks Ubuntu ! *sarcasm* 

I needed to clone the hard drive in my computer. So I booted the Ubuntu live DVD, opened up a terminal, and launched a dd to clone the drive. I wouldn’t be needing the computer for several hours, so it was the perfect opportunity. I came back several hours later, and Ubuntu had PUT ITSELF TO SLEEP. It saw that there was all this disk IO going on, so it just decided to PUT ITSELF TO SLEEP. Ubuntu knows that sleep fails 99.9% of the time. I have no idea whether the clone had completed before the stupid idiot Ubuntu people PUT THE COMPUTER ASLEEP WHILE IT WAS BUSY DOING WORK. So I have to find another 3 hour period of time to do the clone again. You know, it’s not about whether Ubuntu is free or not. It about that the people who work on it are so cripplingly stupid. They could run down one of my family members, or blow up their neighborhood because they deliberately left the gas on. They are the single stupidest single congregation of people the earth has ever known. 

16.04 live disc and “reinstall”

So let’s say you tried, like a genius, to upgrade to 16.04, because you were having USB problems that may and may not be related to the upgrade to 14.04 that puked all over itself and that you went in and spent several hours fixing by hand. And that has of course failed even more spectacularly, leaving you with a machine that does boot, but has no networking and package dependency hell that nothing will fix and a bunch of corrupted packages and and and.

So now you’ve made a live DVD-ROM and started the “reinstall” operation from that, because hey, maybe that’ll work, and it’ll try to preserve your app configuration and HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA <cries>

First thing it does: Scans your system partition to see what apps might be there that it should keep, then deletes all the OS files so it can do a clean reinstall. Cool.

Second thing it does: Unmounts your system partition.

Third thing it does: Tries to remount your system partition that it just unmounted. Assumes said system partition (which, I remind you, it had just had mounted and working) is ext2, rather than the ext4 it actually is, go “oh wow hey this isn’t ext2 fuck if I know” and crap out, leaving you with a now utterly unbootable, no-OS non-install, a need to hard-reboot the machine, and a need to rebuild the hard drive.

Who do I need to kill to get some killing around here?