Goodbye Linux/Ubuntu

[Joe Sniderman]

On 05/27/2010 01:46 AM, 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 don't know of anything that can always truly "JUST WORK"

Sane defaults can result in something working with minimal or no
modification most of the time, but any software needs to be used and
configured correctly.

> I'm gone.

Okay.  FYI there is no Retention Dept to offer to magically fix it for
you in exchange for staying on..



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Joe Sniderman <joe262 at joe262.com>
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