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[Andrew Mathenge]

We've all experienced problems with operating systems. Nothing's
perfect. I started using
Linux back in the mid 90's and things back then were very manual.
Windows 95 seemed
like a perfect solution then.

And even now, Ubuntu upgrades fail from time to time. Each upgrade
seems to have it's own
special peculiarities that I just can't seem to get over smoothly. I
will never forget my upgrade
from version 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) to 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). I suffered
loss of sound and the
video drivers just went nuts. I couldn't get the compiz eye candy
working the way it was before.

The upgrade to 8.04 was a piece of cake, however, the upgrade to 8.10
failed miserably so
I'm back to 8.04. Many of my applications broke with 8.10 and I had
sound, DVD and video
problems.

But I still think that Linux is a good operating system and a good
choice. I'll stick with it since
I know how to fix some of the problems I encounter. I can't say the
same about Windows. When
I run into Windows problems, for the most part I'm very stuck.

Andrew.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM, George Borusiewich
<v.g.borus at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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
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