See you again soon!

[Wade Smart]

Fred Roller wrote:
> 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.
> 

20090708 1410 GMT-5

I can understand his frustration - a computer is a tool and if its not 
usable then find a tool that is. But, having said that - the entire 
statement above can be summed up as this:

unsubscribe

The rest is just talk.

Wade

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