Fw: About to give up(again) with Linux!

[Michael Shergold]

Well I persisted for another week but this morning gave up with linux and 
re-installed XP on this laptop.   It's a waste of money to have it sitting 
here in a half-working state and no one wanting to use it.. Now it's back 
with XP and up-to date and everything I want to use works after just a 
couple of hours!
I've kept Open Office though instead of MS Office so I'm still committed a 
bit to open architecture and eventually Linux if someone (perhaps 
OpenOffice.org ) can pull strings and get their act together so that we 
don't have to become geeks to get everything to work.   Breezy really 
killed it for me (and I notice some others too) as most things that I had 
struggled to get working in Hoary no longer worked and it meant a lot more 
fiddling and to what end?
I'll try again next year sometime
meanwhile good luck to all of you
keep up the good work
Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Shergold" <michaelshergold at btconnect.com>
To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:33 PM
Subject: About to give up(again) with Linux!


> About three months ago I decided to give Linux yet another try, this time
> with Ubunutu..
> The Hoary distrib disk worked fairly well but it was a struggle to get 
> some
> of the applications I use regularly to work but eventually I did and my
> DVDs and CDs played, Skype worked and I even managed to get the BBC 
> website
> radioplayer (RealPlayer) to work and I could print to my Windows 
> networked
> Canon printer..  Then I thought I would look at the KDE interface and 
> since
> I preferred that, decided to stick with it and tried to update to 
> Breezy..
> After the upgrade almost nothing worked so I decided to cut the Breezy
> level Kubuntu disk and do a clean re-install from that..  Once again most
> of the things that I had spent time getting going with Hoary failed
> miserably and lots of the applications seemed to be missing (what 
> happened
> to Kynaptic).
> Going backwards at every update might present challenges but is not good
> for Linux..  I know now that probably if I am prepared to fool around 
> using
> the root terminal and a lot of knowledge acquired from these groups I can
> probably get it all working again but it really should not be like this..
> What are beta tests for?  Surely the official release should not put you
> back to square one.  I'm just about to wipe it all off and re-install
> MSWindows. There at least most things work without having to delve into
> newsgroups and console level manipulations.  It's like going back 45
> years!!
> Michael (an old timer who remembers booting computers by operating binary
> switches and is still not afraid to try but thinks the Linux distros 
> should have
> moved on. What a mess!)..
>
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