Goodbye Linux/Ubuntu

[Basil Chupin]

On 29/05/10 18:38, Joe Sniderman wrote:
> On 05/27/2010 01:46 AM, ABSDoug wrote:
>    
>> 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 don't know of anything that can always truly "JUST WORK"
>
> Sane defaults can result in something working with minimal or no
> modification most of the time, but any software needs to be used and
> configured correctly.
>
>    
>> I'm gone.
>>      
> Okay.  FYI there is no Retention Dept to offer to magically fix it for
> you in exchange for staying on..
>    

Well, this certainly has added new information to this thread, which 
nobody else had even remotely considered or stated, and has gone a very 
long way to resolving ABSDoug's problem.

We all are looking forward to your next dissertation on a user's problem.

:-)

BC

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