Interesting Article - "Ubuntu made me quit college!!"

[Alfred]

Yup Blame Ubuntu for the Bad College Marks! :)

I'm kind of siding with George. I just don't know why updates destroy
the nice operating system, brick by brick! I've got some 30 updates that
I'm hesitant to do, because they might work, or they might destroy! I
don't know why Working Parts of Linux are dropped for experimental
things that don't work! I had bought an Nvidia Card a few years back,
and that took 2 years to get it working in Linux. Then in a recent
Ubuntu it took 20 minutes, but now that innovation might get dropped.

For the advances to come, would it not be nice to have say Ubuntu
Classic - That makes use of older drivers on a kernel made for that so
people can upgrade to the newest operating system, but still use their
still working older equipment. Then for the New Equipment person, have
Ubuntu "ZERO" that makes use of the latest drivers for the newest
equipment. Following in the footsteps of a Beverage Maker. That way we
can choose the Kernel  that fits our equipment, perhaps less problems?? 

I played with early M$ stuff, up to Win98 second ed. I was quite good at
it. Never that wealthy, and Brother that played with Red Hat at work. So
I started too. Mandrake 5.X and Mandrake 8.1 then few different ones to
explore what Linux had to offer, and got a free Ubuntu 4.10 CD, It's
been Ubuntu good and bad, ever since! 

I had a Summer Job one time in some Computer Facility, with a Printer
the size of a two door Garage. The boss told me never to work in
computers again!! I didn't take his advice! Then I made an OSI
Challenger, and toyed with that! Then a Got a few Sinclair's and played
with them. Then I played with Commodores, Vic 20, C-64 and C-128 and
Geos. Then was given an IBM 386 SX16 and Dos, played with that for a few
years. Then I got given to me a 486 66MHZ played with that and Windows
3.1 and 3.11, then got a Pentium 166Mhz and Win 95. Then was given a
Pentium 266Mhz and went to Win98. Then Built my own Confuser a 500 Mhz
Pentium, but still win 98 Sec ed. Then made my own 866Mhz Computer with
Win 98 sec ed, but Windows was running into problems so I started with
Linux. Then made my own AMD Athalon XP at 2Ghz with 2 gigs of Ram and
several versions of Linux, and Ubuntu. Fixed confusers here and there
for a while. Not doing much now! I keep busy, and don't have much time
to go further in Linux. It's a pass time! I prefer Linux something. I
use it on the Internet, making Data bases, writing friends learning
about new things, and most importantly, ----reading Copy meant for Fifth
Graders :) 

I have lots of interests, Ayurveda, Geomorphology, North American
Mounds, Ancient stuff here and there that's getting destroyed. Gestetner
Machines, Biking, LED lighting. Ways of healing, things. A little bit of
Latin. Poetry, Cooking. Crohn's Disease! Cancer! A kind of experimental
Iriodology. Solar Panel Design, Windmill Design. Charger designs. Well
Pumps. Fixing things w/o Manuals. 

Autism - because I had that, and now I don't much anymore! Early on I
had Learning Disability, and Language disability, but now I don't,
English is my best Subject. I'm a Late Bloomer! So I'm helping a few
others that have Kids with Autism over the Internet, and my experiences
with it have started to help a few where help was not there for it.  I'm
becoming interested in  SFQ, EFT, so Linux is taking a back seat to my
other interests. 

I'm thinking on the Linux topic that perhaps it is not very well
coordinated. So things get destroyed more often than Built. To become a
Prime Time thing, it needs a steady building making the bricks out of
successful things that worked well, and weeding out what didn't work
well.  That way we get progress, and improvement and to a much lesser
degree having to mess with it to get it to work. "Easier" is what drives
Software advancement. Dos was real good for the Control Freak, but to
others it was hard. Then improvements came that made things easier. That
made a market for it. Ubuntu is free, but to get the Market share it
needs to be easier to use all the time. That is what drives adopters to
making use of newer versions of it. 

I remember early Graphics Programs that were only point by point, easier
is the modern paint program! 

Alfred!              
-----Original Message-----
From: George Borusiewich <v.g.borus at sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: (no subject)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:10:34 -0500
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I have had a personal prejudice against Microsoft for years. Therefore, 
it was with a sigh of relief that I (as a noobie) embraced linux and 
ubuntu in 2006. I was a militant convert. I was determined to make 
ubuntu work. And at first, ubuntu worked perfectly. Then, after several 
upgrades, my sound stopped working. Now, after another upgrade, my 
floppy disk stopped working. I thought that upgrades were supposed to 
improve the product, not make it worse. I have spent countless hours 
searching various forums trying to correct something that worked 
perfectly well in the previous version. For the first time this week, I 
have seriously thought about dumping linux and going back to (hated) 
Microsoft. George