[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu Unity Stability Issues

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Sun 29 Jul 2012 12:54:21 SAST, Quintin van Rooyen wrote:
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> On 29 July 2012 12:08, Wikus <mazal.wikus at gmail.com
> <mailto:mazal.wikus at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Can't help with your iBurst problem , but what I can tell you is
>     that Kubuntu is even more unstable.
>     I had many random crashes and bugs with it. Novell , I totally
>     dislike that.
>
>     Why not try Xubuntu ? I used that when Unity first came out and
>     couldn't get used to unity.
>     So I used Xubuntu for 2 years and were very happy with it. There
>     were very few issues that I can recall.
>
> He could even give Puppy a try. It has the Ubuntu underpinnings and
> (imo) is more feature complete and resource friendly than Xubuntu. It
> also has a HUGE dedicated community, which should help with any
> questions he has. Puppy is the way to go on limited hardware.
>
>
>
>     Another option is to use Ubuntu but with the classic look.
>     (gnome-session-fallback) I think it is called.
>     I use that at work on a 6 year old 512mb laptop and it works and
>     is actually very stable.
>
>
>     - Wikus
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>     On 28/07/2012 20:36, Nico Michael(iBurst) wrote:
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>         Hi there
>
>         I have had bad experiences with the last 2 versions of Ubuntu
>
>         Every  second or third update breaks something in my Linux
>         I seem to be continuously looking at the Ubuntu Community
>         pages trying to fix another problem
>         Is there a way to permanently disable updates  and use a more
>         Stable Ubuntu.
>
>         I cant use my iBurst any more on my Ubuntu so I am sending
>         this email from my Windows Laptop using my iBurst modem.
>
>         My wife's machine has the Pre-Unity Ubuntu I never upgraded it
>         since I installed it and she has no problems.
>         My file server is an older Ubuntu Workstation also a version
>         not supported any more and I am very happy with it.
>
>
>         Last night I took a New Ubuntu CD and made a VM it was so
>         unstable I could not use it  It kept on crashing. I thought
>         Ubuntu is built on a very stable Kernel yet it crashes.
>         I tried OpenSUSE although it was stable I found that distro is
>         not as user friendly as it could not automatically find my
>         Laser printer on my network. Which was the reason I moved to
>         Ubuntu
>
>         Is there a way to get Ubuntu to work with out the tears.
>         Remove the Unity ?
>         Or should one  move to Kubuntu?
>         Can you get Kubuntu to install with the Gnome desktop ?
>
>         Some of my friends are talking of other Debian/Ubuntu  Distros
>         I like Ubuntu as its South African and wish to support it
>
>
>         What say you how do I fix my problem?
>         Novel has two versions a open source version and a stable
>         commercial version a bit behind the Open version but very stable.
>         Does Ubuntu do that ?
>
>
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You could try Pinguy OS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pinguy-os/) or 
Elementary OS (http://elementaryos.org/).
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Bruce

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