[ubuntu-nz] 11.04 on laptop gets nuked

[chris]

On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 19:47 +1200, James Paterson wrote:
> On 10/04/11 19:12, chris wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 19:04 +1200, James Paterson wrote:
> >> Well my flirting with 11.04 on my laptop is over.
> >>
> >> I found when I test ran a program I am writing I could not use the
> >> lazarus project menu stop it when it got out of control.  For some
> >> reason the ctrl + F2 key combination has never worked in ubuntu.  I
> >> always use the menu but in Unity the menus are on the top bar and as
> >> soon as the test program is running its menu is on the bar and I found I
> >> could not use that to close it.  Worse still after finally stopping the
> >> program I found I could not see most of the menu items for the lazarus
> >> menus.  They did not come back after a reboot either.
> >>
> >> Yesterday evening I just saved the few things that were only on the
> >> laptop and did a format reinstall of 10.04 and then reset up the laptop
> >> as a NFS client of my desktop.  Was good revision as its not that long
> >> since first I did this.
> >>
> >> I do not like the unity desktop.  I prefer having menus and do not see
> >> why they could not have put them in - maybe its to do with the devices
> >> this desktop is designed for.  When the next Long term release comes out
> >> I will have to decide whether to go with that if classical gnome is
> >> available and okay or change to Arch linux.
> >>
> >> James Paterson
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > try looking at this  http://www.swiftlinux.org  Seems to do most basic
> > things.
> I just looked it over.  Very interesting - especially the list of 
> forensic tools.  If my lappie keeps going for a few years it might be 
> just the thing to install on it.
> 
> James Paterson aka rockyredhead
> 

Your welcome
cheers Chris  who is rapidly going off Ubuntu