8.04.1 so buggy I'm about to go back to Dapper

[Gerald I. Evenden]

I down loaded 8.04.1  amd64 a couple of weeks ago to replace my aging Dapper 
system and try to get up to date.

After a couple of tries I managed to determine the correct path though the 
start of the DVD and managed to successfully get a boot on the second 
attempt.  Since then it has been nothing but a collection of little 
got-cha's---too many to list here.

Current nasty is that I can't determine the correct selection monitor/nvidia 
version to get my 1600x1200 screen to work.  Worked fine under Dapper but now 
the only usage form is 1280x1024.  I tried to reload the Nvidia driver but 
things got worse.

Firefox and Konqueror are mixed as to what works on what.  Java works (at 
least partially) on Firefox but fails on Konqueror.  I can view youtube on 
Konqueror but not Firefox,  ... and on and on.

Some programs just disappear when I try to execute them.

Sometime, the disc seems to be thrashing around for a very long time in the 
background.  I'm not used to this under Dapper.

Question: is 8.04 any better?  I downloaded from the Kunbunto site---should I 
buy a distribution disc?  And from whom?

Any suggestions would be helpful---even telling me to go back to Dapper.

PS: I did all the tests to verify the quality of the download and it passed.

Thanks in advance.
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