Farewell, Ubuntu

[Brent]

My sympathies and condolences. Been there...done that...and should buy 
the T-shirt.

Both 8.04 and 8.10 have proved to be unstable on my AMD64 box. First it 
was Flash players that caused lockups and then it was running out of 
memory by simply using the mouse when any graphics intense work is being 
done. Other distros, all Debian based, showed the same instability. BTW 
both 32 bit and 64 bit versions were the same....lock ups before you can 
do anything productive.

Now looking for a non Debian distro ......sigh.

Brent

George Borusiewich wrote:
> 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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