Goodbye Linux/Ubuntu

[chris]

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 22:46 -0700, ABSDoug wrote:
> It's been an over 1-year "love affair". I've told all my friends about
> it (none tried it). But now I've reached a point... what am I doing?
> I've spend endless hours trying to get torrents to work on Ubuntu
> Netbook 10.04. Torrents work fine with XP, stock settings on uTorrent,
> so let's not start in with the rounter, or that I need to turn down
> the # of connections, that's all been done. Version 9,10 worked. At
> this point, why would I fool with this anymore? None of the dozen
> computers I maintain for friends run Linux. In fact I don't know
> anyone personally who does. The only person (non professional) that is
> better at computers than me in using Windows 7. The concept seems
> REALLY cool, but Linux JUST DOESN'T WORK. Skype has always been a
> disaster. People complain MS is glitchy... a reboot usually fixes
> that. People complain of viruses... stop runing with Admn rights &
> MOST of your problems are solved. So what AM I trying to accomplish
> with Linux? It's faster, yes especially since I've got a netbook...
> but I use torrents a LOT. This should JUST WORK & if it doesn't... I'm
> gone. 
> 
> 
And we know why.  The crazy insistence on producing a new distro every 6
months.  This does not give time to triage or produce a sound Distro.

Solution is simple.  Debian stable, or PC Linux os.
I have moved all my production machines to Debian stable, and am only
using Ubuntu on this one machine, in the hope they can get this version
stable.

Cheers the kiwi