Installing Ubuntu

[Faizan Kazi]

btw... the menus DO work like do in windows. menu interactiveness over the
years has not changed... left click on a menu and it should drop down...
like the "File" menu in most windows programs.

So i am rather surprised when you say you had all these problems.

and another thing occurred to me... when you boot up off the ubuntu live
cd/dvd you should run a "cd integrity check" to make sure all the data you
burned to disk was correctly copied/downloaded. it could be your disc is
corrupted (could even have scratches on it) that may be messing with
functionality. :s

~fez

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>wrote:

> Sean or Mona wrote:
>
> > It was a disaster for me.  A terrible disaster.
> > This bugger is a 1.8 ghz Pentium 4 that I'm running.  But I tried
> > installing Ubuntu 9.04 and not only did it crawl like molasses but
> nothing
> > could be done with it.
> > Indeed I'm not sure if the menus were supposed to work in a similar
> > fashion to MS Windoze, but I tried left clicking, right clicking, double
> > clicking, just waiting to see if they drop on their own - nothing.
> > A misaligned screen display didn't help much, I suppose. But after all
> the
> > hope and hype and buildup and anticipation that I had subjected myself to
> > -- I was really let down.
> > I was really hoping it would be my salvation from Windoze. No. It was
> > useless. So I'm back with Windoze 2000 and the very least I can say about
> > it is -- well.... it works.
>
> It's a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 - what did you expect?  I admit the release notes
> say that should be sufficient, but still...  It's going to drag. How much
> memory do you have?
>
> So it works on Windows 2000 - you could probably get great performance out
> of a Dapper version of Ubuntu, too.
>
> And no, the menus aren't supposed to work like Windows.
> --
> derek
>
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