Some critics about Ubuntu

[debian_noob at web.de]

Hello Ubuntu devs,

First I want to give you a "thumbs up" for your great work with Ubuntu! 
It's a good distribution.

But as it's always the case, Ubuntu has some negative points (at least in
my opinion), which I want to clear here:
The hardware I installed Ubuntu(Warty Warthog) on is a 
400MHz Celeron,64MB SDRAM,4GB HD,a DVD ROM,and a floppy station (a very low profile machine).

1) The installation: My first problem arouse at the partitioning. I had
already some (unused) etx2, ext3 and swap partitions so I went and only choosed
the mount points for them. But the partitioning app gave me some 
weird error. So I had to choose to "format" the partitions. This was no
problem in the kind of "loosing data" but why doesn't the partitioner
accept some "finished and ready" partitions?
I am going to make a new install today( I will try a custom install), 
so I can probably give you a better description of the error message later.

2) The installation: It was easy. It was too easy. It was so easy that
I thought while my comp was working hard with selecting and installing
packages that I missed to answer a question of the installer right.
The installer went to install a big bunch of packages without telling me
what has to be installed. And without giving me the selection process.
Hey guys, where is tasksel in Ubuntu? Why didn't you make the selection
finer for tasksel and give the user many possibilities to install his
machine? Something like: only console, with X11, only console with
dev tools, with X11 and dev tools and so on...There are many thinkable
possibilities.

3) "Professional" Services from the start up: So I went through the installation
(which was not hard as I told already) and I booted into Ubuntu. What did my
eyes see? From the install up there were services like LVM and RAID configured
and started. 
Please disable these things for the normal install. Because there are many 
people who install on low profile machines as I did it and they didn't need LVM,RAID
AND the people who need these things are experienced enough to make the settings
later.

4) Network: As I read on the user mailing list a lot of people have 
difficulties with IPv6 loaded on startup. Please make a normal install with "disabled IPv6".
Because those who don't need are then happy with a "fast internet" (a fast resolving, loading, rendering mozilla) and those who need IPv6 are experienced enough to make the settings after
install.

5) Gnome: I don't know why, but the settings for the login-screen and the desktop was different
for me. The login-screen was at "12xx x 10xx" and the destop was "1024x768" right after the installation. Maybe you have to look after the packages to make a litte patch.

I don't want to rant. All the points above I eliminated but I think about users not experienced enough to do that.
I just want to give some points to make Ubuntu better. If you didn't understand something please ask me so I 
can make the point clearer(I'm not a native English).

Thanks for Ubuntu.

regards
debian_noob
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