Ubuntu instability

[Colin Law]

On 30 August 2013 23:16, Grant Hardy <granthardy at outlook.com> wrote:
> I’ve been really keen to try dual booting Ubuntu with my current operating
> system, Windows 8. I went ahead and installed Ubuntu 13.04 on my Asus
> netbook last week and hit immediate problems. I’m an Orca user, so I don’t
> know whether that has something to do with it but it was extremely unstable.
> Orca, as well as other built-in apps, crashed constantly right from the
> first boot-up into the newly installed OS. I ended up booting into Windows,
> deleting the Ubuntu partitions, and running the bootrec /fixmbr command to
> fix the master boot record so as to boot directly into Windows. I posted a
> message to the list and was advised to try Ubuntu on another machine since
> they were aware of problems on some netbooks.

I don't know, but is 12.04 LTS any better with Orca?  It may be that
it is better to stick to LTS versions which have had more time for
things to stabilise.

Colin