shutdown option gone

[O. Sinclair]

On 01/03/2015 11:57, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> On 2015/03/01 14:27, O. Sinclair wrote:
>> On 01/03/2015 05:55, Thomas wrote:
>>> On 2015/03/01 12:51, Thomas wrote:
>>>> On 2015/02/28 20:01, Charles T. Bell wrote:
>>>>> On 02/28/2015 05:23 AM, Thomas wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> Thomas
>>> I forgot to mention:
>>> Lock out (End session) does do/change NOTHING.
>>>
>> Hi, it seems something (can not say what) have gone seriously wrong with
>> your installation as several basic functions have disappeared or are not
>> working.
>>
>> If I were you I would make a backup of my data (Luckybackup is the tool
>> I use), make listing of software I have installed after original
>> installation and then simply reinstall from scratch.
>>
> Thank you.
> "simply reinstall from scratch" ...
> Well, I have had to do that over the SEVEN years I am trying to get
> friendly with linux already a million times!
> In this particular case "simply reinstall" means something like TWO DAYS
> of work. I know, because I DID this many times.
> * installation of the OS
> * installation of some extra Linux software
> * data transfer
> * installation of VM Player to install Windows in it -> for the purpose
> of installing many dictionaries Linux cannot provide
> * customization
> 
> Over these 7 years I have tried to install Linux - multiple versions on
> multiple computers - an uncountable number of times.
> And that is about as far as I get.
> Install the system - sneeze ... and everything(!) goes down the drain.
> 
> On the official Ubuntu website it says "Ubuntu is designed to be easy to
> use",
> on the top page of the Kubuntu site it says "Kubuntu makes your PC
> friendly"  ......
> 
> THAT is definitely NOT my experience.
> 
Well I totally disagree. I have used Linux Kubuntu as my main system
since 2007 on a number of computers and only done "total reinstallation"
when I have chosen to do myself or have had some kind of hardware failure.

Keeping a backup of some kind is vital to any user, be it a
"professional" or not. I have over the years used Remastersys, sadly now
abandonware, Clonezilla and Luckybackup to keep a copy not older than a
week of my 2-3 systems and that has saved me after disk failures. Last
one that comes to mind was my wife's laptop where the battery is dead so
when (not if where I live but when) power goes the disk can be in the
middle of doing whatever. It refused to boot. Took the Clonezilla and
restored boot partition, took 5 minutes and we were back in operation.

It would not have mattered if it was Windows, OS X, BSD or Linux - the
reality is that computer systems fail at some stage and one has to be
prepared for that.