12.04 is the worst yet - NOT!

[Leslie Anne Chatterton]

Is 12.04 the worst? Hardly!

I had a few problems installing on my 6 year old Gateway laptop, and one
older desktop's video card just wasn't supported, but I got past this with
a little help from my kind friends here and on other forums. I know none of
my antiques would run the current Microsoft offering at all. All my
computers are 4 to 6 years old and it's sort of a hobby to keep them going
with the latest Kubuntu. Until my duct tape and bailing wire runs out,
anyway.

Once installed there have been no serious issues and I'm generally pleased.
There are few changes and no surprises from 11.10. Just same old, same old.

Mind you I don't use pop mail or Kmail. All of my mail is IMAP gmail, which
I set up to poll my hotmail and aim accounts. It is accessible everywhere,
which is great, and they store almost a GB of my archived mail, free. They
even do backups, which I neglect because, frankly, nothing else I have is
of much importance to me, except my photos, which Eye-Fi stores for a
modest fee. Yahoo mail is just for accessing groups and forums like this
one.

It's the 5 year support that I'm most enthused about. I need something that
works, and 12.04 fills the bill.

Thank you Kubuntu developers! Good job, well done

Sent from my XOOM Android Tablet
On May 15, 2012 11:10 AM, "girardhenri" <girardhenri at free.fr> wrote:

> Le 15/05/2012 12:36, Bruce Marshall a écrit :
>
>> On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 07:57:26 AM girardhenri wrote:
>>
>>> I do use kubuntu only for system settings (qtcurve theme with fakeosx
>>> gnome3, as I found gnome3 themes not very nice, mainly too dark), but
>>> 12.04 was better on first beta than final in my opinion, because I often
>>> have messages that utuntu 12.04 has crashed or an application has
>>> crashed... It sounds buggy ! synaptic doesn't work any more after a
>>> while (i guess after updating)... Well as a final it doesn't seems
>>> stable as usually it is with other versions... I already reinstalled
>>> twice and always the same.
>>> I use firefox and thunderbird as mail client because it does manage my
>>> mail boxes perfectly.
>>> regards,
>>> Henri
>>>
>> Synaptic seems to work fine for me and in fact got me out of the 'hole' I
>> was
>> in trying to install 12.04.
>>
>> When I was using aptitude to do installing, it would sometimes want to
>> delete
>> about 500 packages in order to install one.  Twice it uninstalled my
>> kernel
>> and I had to do a rescue.  I've given up on aptitude and now use synaptic
>> for
>> everything.
>>
>>
>>
>>  I found out the problem : In synaptic icon command they wrote
> synaptic-pkgexec, so I deleted it and i wrote gksudo synaptic and
> everything works now !
> I have problem with sudo too I don't know why sometimes it's deleted by
> ubuntu ?
> I must chmod 755 to get it back...
> I didn't have this problems with former versions.
> Aptitude is very dangerous ! Sometimes it took me away kde... and gnome3 ?
> I don't know why. Pity because it is an excellent tool.
> But  I fear it's not good to use apt and aptitude ?
>
>
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