I hate Ubuntu >:(

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.

To install GNU ddrescue

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.

Bluetooth keyboard

does not work. 

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.

Display not recognized

operating in low graphics mode >:(

The end?

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.

Why not just get a different distro instead of hammering on Ubuntu just because YOU had problems?
Anonymous

I tried several. Ubuntu is the best.  The king of the hill.  But the hill is made of shit.

Are you an experienced linux user or just a starter linux user?
Anonymous

With a well-designed OS, it wouldn’t matter.

I also HATE Ubuntu now. I cannot keep an internet connection with it to save my life. It does not work. I hate Windows, but hate Ubuntu even more.
Anonymous

exactly

If you hate Ubuntu so much, what do you not hate?

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