Goodbye Linux/Ubuntu

Thu May 27 23:49:48 UTC 2010

Shalom All,

I'm new here so I'll intro myself then get on with it...

My name is Frank Shrum and I'm a webmaster of a business website online and
I have 10+ year veteran of Windows, both as a user and a tuner-uper (I'm not
am IT tech I just know how to make windows work better than Microsoft
distributes it to do) and when XP came out it was like falling in love all
over again (I loved Windows 98SE 1st)... that lasted until about 3 to 5
weeks ago when I 1st decided to install Ubuntu 9.10... I can't say enough
about it's charms.

I've upgraded that install of Ubuntu to version 10.14 (LTS) the day it was
released and while I have had a few issues with it I simply fell deeper in
love with this OS...

Here's a review I posted to my facebook page just today before I checked my
email and found this discussion:

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Well... I've been back on my Windows box for one whole day and I'm finding
it to be sooo cantankerous that I'm missing the Ubuntu comp, a lot... For
one it's extremely              ssss-llll-oooo-wwww compared to Ubuntu....It's
looking like gaming is the main (and about the only) thing I'm seeing of any
value with Windows 'cause just about anything else you can do with Windows
you can do with Ubuntu but faster... The only thing is that there are some
issues with installing Ubuntu on this hp/compaq box that I haven't attempted
to try to circumvent yet (which is why I'm using windows right now)...The
amount of work I *HAVE NOT* accomplished today compared to how much I
*DID*accomplish on the Ubuntu comp is amazing to me.I'm
spending wwaaayyyy to much time trying to make Windows work for me compared
to just doing my work on Ubuntu... I think I'll go try installing Ubuntu on
here again and see how that goes. ;)==============

Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!! To me it's like having an old
girlfriend that you were once so much in love with then she broke your
heart... When you see her some time later (after you've gotten over her)
then she is somewhat revolting and you are unable to want to spend very much
if any time with her like you once did.

So much for putting my 2 cents worth in. Thanks for your time. & Thanks for
letting me glorify Ubuntu one more time. LOL

Shalom,
Frank

Frank Shrum
http://eBizznessBasics.com

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:46 AM, ABSDoug <absdoug at yahoo.com> 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.
>
>
> I have to concur with those who called this a troll.
>
> It works fine here - I have 12 torrents running right now in
> Transmission, for instance - and I've found 10.04 to be a very smooth,
> trouble-free release on the desktop.
>
> Sadly, the netbook remix on my notebook broke suspend & hibernate
> functionality, which worked before, but you can't have everything. I
> have also got some issues with the netbook launcher, which doesn't
> work well on machines which don't have proper hardware 3D for the
> compisiting window manager.
>
> But still, overall, in 6 years of using Ubuntu, which followed a
> couple of years on SUSE which followed a couple of years on Caldera
> which followed experiments with Red Hat, Mandrake, Corel, Xandros and
> others... It is still the most polished, professional, smoothest Linux
> out there. It's got the best community, too.
>
> It's far quicker for me to get a machine up & running with Ubuntu than
> Windows, either XP or 7, and it requires less running maintenance -
> and I've been using Windows for 22 years and am highly expert with it.
>
> Your experience is peculiar to you.
>
> Ubuntu is the most widely-used Linux in the world and the 3rd most
> popular desktop OS in the world, after Windows and Mac OS X. Millions
> of people find it smooth, painless, easy and highly reliable.
>
> Also, to the comments that the 6-month release schedule is too fast:
> well, you clearly don't really understand the way that FOSS works.
> "Release early, release often" is the mantra. If you want longer-term
> stability and fewer upgrades, just run the LTS releases. Nobody is
> forcing you to upgrade. Personally, I like getting a fresh cut twice a
> year, so that I get new goodies like the latest Firefox and
> OpenOffice, tools I use every day.
>
> But if you don't want that, you don't have to have it.
>
> Again, I call troll.
>
>
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