Goodbye Linux/Ubuntu

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:46 AM, ABSDoug <absdoug at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> It's been an over 1-year "love affair". I've told all my friends about it (none tried it). But now I've reached a point... what am I doing? I've spend endless hours trying to get torrents to work on Ubuntu Netbook 10.04. Torrents work fine with XP, stock settings on uTorrent, so let's not start in with the rounter, or that I need to turn down the # of connections, that's all been done. Version 9,10 worked. At this point, why would I fool with this anymore? None of the dozen computers I maintain for friends run Linux. In fact I don't know anyone personally who does. The only person (non professional) that is better at computers than me in using Windows 7. The concept seems REALLY cool, but Linux JUST DOESN'T WORK. Skype has always been a disaster. People complain MS is glitchy... a reboot usually fixes that. People complain of viruses... stop runing with Admn rights & MOST of your problems are solved. So what AM I trying to accomplish with Linux? It's faster, yes especially since I've got a netbook... but I use torrents a LOT. This should JUST WORK & if it doesn't... I'm gone.


I have to concur with those who called this a troll.

It works fine here - I have 12 torrents running right now in
Transmission, for instance - and I've found 10.04 to be a very smooth,
trouble-free release on the desktop.

Sadly, the netbook remix on my notebook broke suspend & hibernate
functionality, which worked before, but you can't have everything. I
have also got some issues with the netbook launcher, which doesn't
work well on machines which don't have proper hardware 3D for the
compisiting window manager.

But still, overall, in 6 years of using Ubuntu, which followed a
couple of years on SUSE which followed a couple of years on Caldera
which followed experiments with Red Hat, Mandrake, Corel, Xandros and
others... It is still the most polished, professional, smoothest Linux
out there. It's got the best community, too.

It's far quicker for me to get a machine up & running with Ubuntu than
Windows, either XP or 7, and it requires less running maintenance -
and I've been using Windows for 22 years and am highly expert with it.

Your experience is peculiar to you.

Ubuntu is the most widely-used Linux in the world and the 3rd most
popular desktop OS in the world, after Windows and Mac OS X. Millions
of people find it smooth, painless, easy and highly reliable.

Also, to the comments that the 6-month release schedule is too fast:
well, you clearly don't really understand the way that FOSS works.
"Release early, release often" is the mantra. If you want longer-term
stability and fewer upgrades, just run the LTS releases. Nobody is
forcing you to upgrade. Personally, I like getting a fresh cut twice a
year, so that I get new goodies like the latest Firefox and
OpenOffice, tools I use every day.

But if you don't want that, you don't have to have it.

Again, I call troll.


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