9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu
Douglas Pollard
dougpol1 at verizon.net
Fri Nov 6 02:18:57 UTC 2009
Ive had my 9.10 up and running an hour and been busy trying everything,
sweet as a honey bees Knees. There may be problems there but I
haven't found any yet.
Doug
thomas wrote:
> > It's the most stable it's been in 18 months, and it's
> > working for almost everybody.
>
> You are not being trufull in this statement. Version 9.04,
> which was the first that I used, was much better. There
> are too many problems to go into details again since so
> many people have mentioned them in their postings. I
> agree with the statement.
>
>
> >> Even Thunderbird is flaky in 9.10.
>
> This is very true and is true for Firefox. In 9.04 both of
> these tended to work with problems
>
> >> Ubuntu is suppose to be for everyone, not just techies
> >> and early adopters
>
> I was led to believe that Ubuntu was not just for techies or
> for those who have the potential but lack the time or the
> desire to be techies.
>
> My decision to give up on Windows and go Ubuntu instead
> of the MAC was due to money and the fact that I have a lot
> of investment in Windows software which made it illogical
> to buy a higher price (but much better) MAC computer to
> just access the internet. I am using a Windows computer
> that is not connected to the internet. I went this way after
> a couple of bad incidents in which the "protection" apps
> did not protect the computer and were disasters for me.
>
> The final problem of using Windows that made me switch
> might have been due to a buggy XP upgrade. It happen
> around midnight a few months ago while I was looking at
> books on Amazon.Com. I am sure that this was not due to
> the Amazon site and I had not been to any sites (such as
> porno) which would have sent me a trojan. Plus a lot of
> other had such problems at the same time, including a
> couple neighbors my age who would never be interested
> in porn or other bad sites.
>
>
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