See you again soon!

[Fred Roller]

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 19:42 +0300, Avraham Hanadari wrote:
> Well, thanks to those of you who have taken the trouble to relate to my 
> questions. The time has once again come for me to throw in the towel. I 
> have been giving Linux a try once a year since SuSE 4.2 (which I had to 
> buy!) in order to see if the functions I need had at last been 
> incorporated. Ubuntu has been my distribution of choice for that last 
> few years and the latest version has come rather close to meeting the 
> requirements. Unfortunately "rather close" is not close enough to allow 
> me to replace Windows. Running a dual boot with XP, and switching every 
> time I need a function or a piece of hardware that Linux doesn't play 
> with is time consuming and frustrating. I find I am spending far too 
> much time tweaking Linux to perform elementary but essential tasks and 
> not actually doing productive work. I had to buy a driver for my 
> printer. The scanner and a variety of other electronic gizmos are 
> incommunicado. Convenient relatively sophisticated human language 
> translation (like Babylon) is still unavailable. Hebrew nikud is still 
> unavailable. These two functions can be achieved, I am told, via an 
> incredible series of command line instructions. I started doing that, 
> then stopped when I realized that once again my Linux "hobby" was 
> preventing me from completing significant projects. Some of you have 
> been most eager to help, but, in truth, you have been guessing. How is 
> it possible that no one knows how to change the date renderings in Linux 
> to European style? I refuse to believe that you are all happily using 
> the Yank sequence. How is it possible that not one other user has need 
> of more than four keyboards? The list goes on. This list is entitled 
> "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions". Although I 
> am grateful to those of you who have rendered help and made suggestions, 
> my general impression is that this is a "general discussion". Ubuntu 
> stays on board in my dual boot, unless another distro shows more 
> promise, but I am withdrawing from the list for the time being. Thanks 
> again. I  respect you for your perseverance with Linux. It does you honour.
> Avraham
> 
> 
> 

Sorry it didn't work out for you.  Since you seem to already have the
dual boot set up then do the bulk of your work on the XP side if you
must.  Continue to work on the Ubuntu side and help develop what you are
looking for in the OS.  It is a community effort and everyone has
something to offer.  Waiting for it to happen is how price tags are
added.  Thanks for trying none the less.

-- 
Fred R.
www.fwrgallery.com

"Life is like Linux, simple.  If you are fighting it, you are doing
something wrong."