Farewell, Ubuntu

[Victor Mendonça]

I'm glad you are not giving up on Linux completely. If it's other distros that you want to try, I'd say go ahead with it. One thing I should mention is that most of the distros will not be so easy ot use and setup as Ubuntu. Ubuntu aims to have an user experience similar to that of a MAC computer.

I also have had many sound problems with Ubuntu 8.04 (and I do like 7.10 a lot more than 8.04). Right now my volume control on my panel does not work as I changed some configuration to use the speakers for skype. Another problem that I've been having is with playback in VLC when I have a firefox window open. The fix was to change vlc to pulse audio, which worked for the first few days, but after a while it stopped working. I haven't had time to looks for fixes.

Again, these problems are not even close to the other major problems I would have with other Linux distros (being a noob myself). And I know that Ubuntu has the best forum support compared to any other distro. I too sometimes don't get my answer, but that does not mean that I will stop there. I make it personal to resolve the problem (because I enjoy troubleshooting).

Good luck with the experimentaion. You only got more to learn from it.

Let us know if you'd like to give the sound problem another try (even if just for the heck of it).

 


Victor Mendonça
IT Worker - Linux enthusiast
http://wazem.org/




----- Original Message ----
From: George Borusiewich <v.g.borus at sympatico.ca>
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Sunday, October 5, 2008 9:03:02 AM
Subject: Farewell, Ubuntu

I first tried linux with Ubuntu 6.04, dual-booting with Win XP. I was 
delighted. Ubuntu auto-detected all of my hardware with no difficulty. 
When 6.10 arrived, I switched to that, then 7.04, then 7.10, all with no 
difficulty. I then installed 8.04. Disaster! No sound. I fiddled around 
for a couple of weeks (I'm a newbie) with no success. I posted a report 
to ubuntu-ca and asked for help. I received one reply from someone who 
expressed puzzlement, but offered no suggestions. I checked some 
websites to see if I could find a solution, and found 2 other poor souls 
suffering from the same problem. One suggested that Ubuntu 8.04's switch 
from "pulse audio" to "alsa" was the problem. I switched my 8.04 
installation from "alsa" to "pulse audio", but still no sound. I posted 
another report to ubuntu-ca with an update on my efforts, but received 
not one reply. I then waited patiently for Ubuntu 8.10, knowing that the 
problem would be corrected. It was not (I downloaded and installed 8.10 
alpha 6). Grasping at straws, I installed Ubuntu 8.04 Satanic Edition. 
No sound. The maddening thing is that I repeatedly reinstalled 7.10 and 
got sound every time. Since Ubuntu is debian-based, I tried Debian 4. 
Too geeky (I didn't even install it). I heard that Linux Mint is 
Ubuntu-based, so I installed Linux Mint 5 (which is based on Ubuntu 
8.04). No sound, but in my opinion, Ubuntu cannot hold a candle to Linux 
Mint 5 in terms of elegance and simplicity (try it). Unfortunately, 
Linux Mint 4 (which I assume is based on ubuntu 7.10) does not have a 
86x64 version. Therefore, I am temporarily running ubuntu 7.10 until I 
find some other linux distribution which will work. I have just 
downloaded Mandriva 2009, but haven't had time to try it. I looked 
through the 2008 edition of "Ubuntu Unleashed" (which covers 8.04 and 
8.10) but it offered no help at all. Parting is such sweet sorrow.  
George Borusiewich

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