Farewell, Ubuntu

[Alfred]

Hi:

I had similar Problems with 8.04. Opened several Bugs on the bug list
and a few got fixes. I did a side by side install with 7.10, and I'm
still using 7.10 every day. So far it works Excellently! Most of what I
use 7.10 for does not work in 8.04. So that 90 Gig partition hardly ever
gets used.

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: George Borusiewich <v.g.borus at sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Farewell, Ubuntu
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:03:02 -0400
Mailer: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925)

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