I hate Ubuntu >:(
Ahhhhh, back to normal.
(My video card drivers had been uninstalled, somehow.)

Ahhhhh, back to normal.

(My video card drivers had been uninstalled, somehow.)

And why the hell did they change all the program names in Karmic?  Instead of “Text Editor”, it’s “gedit”.  Instead of “Gnome Partition Manager”, it’s “GParted”.

Is this part of some campaign to make things more difficult to find?

The Beginning.

This is around the time I first installed Ubuntu.  I had previously tried several other distros (Libranet, Mandrake, PlanetCCRMA, Agnula, Fedora, …) and all of them made me want to gouge out my own eyes with a plastic spoon.

Then I saw Ubuntu on a friend’s computer and she wasn’t having any problems with it.  I decided to try it for myself.  At first, I was amazed at how well things worked.  My hardware was sort of recognized and some of the defaults actually made sense.  I started actually using it as my primary OS, rarely booting into Windows.  I actually liked running Linux!

But it didn’t last.

Over the years I’ve gathered many screenshots and sent myself many emails about issues or annoyances that I was going to file bug reports or ask in the forums about.  But filing a good bug report is time-consuming and difficult (and mostly fruitless), and the number of things to complain about quickly overcame my ability to file reports for them (if I even knew which component was at fault). 

So in 2010, I created this “micro-blog” and started back-dating them all and dumping them here, to document all the joyous experiences I’ve had with Ubuntu since making this terrible mistake.

Yes, these are all real, and experienced by one person on two different computers running Ubuntu.

No, I’m not against open source.  It works great for Mozilla, etc. 

No, I am not a Microsoft shill.  I just want my computer to work.