Ubuntu Really Does Suck...DFS is correct...

[Moshe Goldfarb.]

Ok so I follow RonB's advice and try this *wubi* thing and amazingly it
manages to download, configure and install in about 30 minutes.
Add 15 minutes for updates and I am good to go.

http://wubi-installer.org/

Seriously, very impressive....I had my doubts, but it did work.

However, then the fun begins....

I get no sound, but only in certain applications...So I change the driver
to the Alsa ICE driver for my MidiMan Delta66 card.
Bingo!
Now I have sound!

Unfortunately the volume level is too low (I'm running +4dbu) and the
volume control, which worked before, when I got sound that is, no longer
works.

Ok, so I crank up the external desk and I am good to go.

Next problem:

I install Pan, configure it for my newsserver (Motzarella) and it works.
Well, sort of.

The first time I start it if I do things fast, like get articles, read,
reply etc all is well.

If I wait to long, when I try to bring artilces down it gives a 441 message
saying the articles have missing parts.

I know this is not true, but whatever.
restarting Pan fixes it, until the next time I wait a minute or two between
reading posts.

This sucks.

Next problem: Applications seem to come and go more quickly than in the
Land of Oz (see the quote by Dorothy)...
The problem is, they go all by themselves.

Example: I had Totem up and running a movie which was stored on a USBkey
and it was working fine. I then decided to burn a DVD with some data files
from another location.

I had Totem on one desktop and Brassero on another.
All of a sudden, Totem is gone.
Poof.
Where did it go?

Thinking maybe it ended I tried again, and poof it disappears again.

Part 2: I start up Rhythm Box and point to a drive with 10's of thousands
of mp2 and other music files.
It seems to be scanning and running so I move to something else.
When I go back to check on it I notice the program has disappeared!
Gone again and at this point I am getting more than a feeling of dejavu.

So I start Rhythm box up again and it seems to work, but where did it go?

I dunno, I'm still playing with this thing but honestly I am not impressed
with the applications at all.

Oh yea, finding a rpinter on anothe LINUX box on the network.
How?
The Windows machines see it fine.
The Ubuntu machine is asking me for all kinds of path information, hostname
etc.

WTF is this?

I have broadband phone and my voicemal is sent to me opn the web as wav
files.

I click on them in Firefox and it tells me I can't play it because it is a
Microsoft formatted file?
Huh?
Works on my XP system and my Mac.


Like I said, I am less than impressed.

And this is after a couple of hours of use.
I can only wonder what is lurking that I have not discovered yet!


If anyone has any solutions, I am willing to listen.
BTW Ubuntu DID recognize all my hardware, including my LCD's and everything
worked so that's a first.

 

[DanS]

(Top posted for brevity.....)

Three things......

1. What does this have to do with Vista ?

2. Maybe it's you. Just like it the user when there's a Vista problem.

3. Noone here cares about your Ubuntu experience. This is a Vista
newsgroup you trolling moron.

Do you want me to tell you about the nightmare of cleaning
spyware/malware of a friends PC...completely manually w/o the use of any
tools.

That must say a lot. I mean, if I can do that manually, that means I have
a LOT of experience doing so. And I do. Unfortunately.

 

[RonB]

3. Noone here cares about your Ubuntu experience. This is a Vista
newsgroup you trolling moron.

"Moshe" (aka flatline---) makes friends wherever he goes.

 

[Moshe Goldfarb.]

(Top posted for brevity.....)

Three things......

1. What does this have to do with Vista ?

Food for thought.

2. Maybe it's you. Just like it the user when there's a Vista problem.

Nope.
I don't even like Vista BTW.
I think it's irrelevant garbage.
Windows XP performs much better on the same hardware.

3. Noone here cares about your Ubuntu experience. This is a Vista
newsgroup you trolling moron.

And let me tell you Zeke, you sound like quite the Vista advocate.
Quite.

Do you want me to tell you about the nightmare of cleaning
spyware/malware of a friends PC...completely manually w/o the use of any
tools.

Like I was saying, you're quite an advocate for Vista.
Are you sure YOU are in the correct group?

That must say a lot. I mean, if I can do that manually, that means I have
a LOT of experience doing so. And I do. Unfortunately.

Wow! I am impressed.
Would you like a medal of a monument erected in your honor?

 

[Not Even Me]

Actually I like it, but I wouldn't use it for my personal desktop.
I keep XP for doing my real work.
I use Vista (and have since early BETA) becuse I have to support it. NOT
because I like it.