How’s Ubuntu by me? Not so good.
I discovered Ubuntu a while back - back in the Warty Warthog days of yore (like, maybe, 3-4 months ago). Ordered some CDs, which was impressive by itself (What? You’ll send me free CD-ROMs? Up to 10? Where do I sign?), received them, and let them sit on my desk (well, OK, I did take a look at the LiveCD, but that’s all).
Well after seeing Russell Beattie and Doc Searls wax rhapsodic about it (not to mention lots of chatter), and after continued pressure by a work friend that’s been using it, I finally installed it last night…and it failed.
Runs through the whole boot sequence and gets to the end, where the screen goes black. PC still running, still responding to key-clicks (in fact, I think I can hear little drum sounds when I click <enter>, maybe Ubutu’s “you-made-a-mistake” feedback sound?), but no video. Probably something to do with video resolution - I didn’t have the time to look into it yet.
Speaking as a devil’s advocate (or a user’s one, take your pick), and with full knowledge that other linux installs have the same issue (assuming it’s the resolution thing, I had the same problem with my first Debian install), why would I want to use this when Windows always knows how to draw on my screen?
Hmpf. Impressed? Not yet….
Not giving up, though. I really want to really like Ubuntu, and I want to get behind a desktop Linux distro for-the-masses, I just can’t…yet.
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May 10th, 2005 at 5:02 pm
Ubuntu Linux desktop right choice
Avete mai provato ad usare Linux invece di quell’odioso e fastidioso, nonche’ totalmente insicuro Winzozz? Se avete intenzione di farlo il mio consiglio e’ quello di provare una nuova (in circolazione da poco piu’ di un anno) distribuzione linux ba…
October 4th, 2007 at 4:33 am
have you tried it again recently? some of those types of issue have been fixed since though with gutsy coming out in a couple of weeks maybe itll be time to try again
October 17th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Hey David;
Yep, I’ve had Ubuntu and Edubuntu installs running on a laptop for my daughter a few times over the past few months - actually if you look at my archives you’ll see more recent posts regarding networking in Ubuntu, unless I’m much mistaken (but I’m too lazy to go look).
In fact my daughter loved Ubuntu and it’s cousins, and if it weren’t for the fact that that particular laptop’s HD was dying and that I stumbled upon an iMac for her to use, we’d still be using it. For now though, we’re a Windows/Mac household.
Who knows - I’m looking for a home server of some sort - perhaps Gutsy will be my OS.