[ubuntu-za] 12.10 gripes

[Robert Holm]

On 02/11/2012 18:34, Wikus wrote:
> Yep update is first thing I always do
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> On 02/11/2012 18:28, Frans de waal wrote:
>> I see no reason why it should not work...except the fact that it's 
>> not a LTS.
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>> Have You updated the new install yet?
>> The kind of errors you get might get fixed by month end, if not sooner.
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>> On 2 November 2012 16:06, Wikus <mazal.wikus at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:mazal.wikus at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>     Afternoon all ,
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>>     I have installed 12.10 yesterday. (was on 12.04LTS).
>>     And I am not very impressed. Much slower than 12.04 and buggy and
>>     the Nvidia drivers doesn't
>>     work , which have always worked before on every version I used
>>     since 8 on a number of different pc's.
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>>     My question is , is my pc just getting too long in the tooth for
>>     Ubuntu ? Are they also aiming more at
>>     the high end pc's now ? Or is 12.10 just slow and buggy in general
>>     ? Are there guys with new pc's that have
>>     no issues ? Or are you also having issues ?
>>     My Specs:
>>     Core2duo 2.8ghz , 4gig ram , Geforce 9800GT 510mb
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>>     My biggest gripes is the slowness , Nvidia not working , frequent
>>     the "System have experienced an error"
>>     messages , and files and folders jumping around while viewing them
>>     in nautilus.
>>     Are these a "the pc is too old for the os" thing , or is this
>>     version of Ubuntu just not good ? 12.04 ran without issues.
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>>     - Wikus
My machine is pretty much up to date but I also found 12.10 to be 
significantly sluggish compared to 12.04 and I have happily reverted to 
12.04.

Robert