My Ubuntu 9.04 experience

[Matt Darcy]

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migration to Windows migration.

Best wishes,

Matt.




Steve Summers wrote:
> My Ubuntu 9.04 experience: (8/9/09)
> 
> 1) Brown is ugly.
> 2) Install took a long time.
> 3) Screen darkened (slept) during install, stupid.
> 4) Green line on right side of boot-up splash screen, looks bad.
> 5) Way too many updates after install.
> 6) Which should I install first, the updates, or the proprietary driver?
> 7) After updates, the reminder for the proprietary driver didn't come
> back.
> 8) Too many boot options.
> 9) During installation of proprietary driver, progress bar stayed at 0%
> for a long time.  When I clicked the progress bar, it shot up to 86%
> immediately.  Obviously a glitch.
> 10) After re-boot, ('restart now' option should be in the driver update
> dialog box, but isn't,) got 'out of scan range' on my monitor.
> 
> I'm thinking: Linux sucks.
> 
> Kubuntu is buggy as hell.
> PCLinuxOS has no 64-bit version.
> Mandriva's download page is blank.  Can't even download it.
> 
> I'll be migrating from Windows XP 32-bit, to Windows 7 64-bit.  Not
> Ubuntu, or any Linux.  Maybe next year.
> 
> Assuming I want to deal with more crap, please answer my question:  Which
> should I install first, the updates, or the proprietary driver?
> 
> Thank-you, and good luck with your OS!
> 
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