I'd like to use Linux but...

That's pretty funny, but what's funnier is that the original blog post thought is was some kind of genuine motivational video or something, and hated it for it. I think that would have made it better.

See what's on employees' laptops

I have a friend who works @ MS and I am gonna rickroll him with that like a thousand times.

VISTA GOTTA GET ME SOME

Fucking Pulseaudio.

which usb to serial adaptor is best

I created a load of logical partitions (on a new hdd) and installed Fedora 9. Not only did it wipe away ALL my logical partitions and create a single one, it put some raid shit all over the drive that I cannot get rid of. SOOO fucking angry right now.

Linux.
Fedora.
RedHat.

Dude, it's hard to have a lotta sympathy for you here.

Yes, yes I know, I just wanted to install it on ONE TINY PARTITION in order to have a play. But no, it had to destroy my fucking hard drive.

Cannot believe I now have to install VISTA in order to fix a problem that Linux created.

Wow I am so incredibly furious.

FIXED.

Fedora goes up my arse forever.

100 Uses of Vaseline

Ubuntu Hardy is a fucking disaster.

Er... in what way? I've got it on the Linux box - was going to net install debian, but debian refused to recognise my network card, so gave up on that idea - and I am neither happy nor unhappy with it, but then I don't do a great deal with it and don't have that much linux experience.

Though it did demand a reboot after some updates. And it does keep trying to give me updates, including for packages I don't have installed. Ahh, it's just like Windows, how reassuring...

Just waaaaaay too many bugs that get in the way. Still head and shoulders above Windows, but nowhere near as good as Gutsy or Feisty.

i've switched to fedora as the default ubuntu build doesn't scale down my processor when it's idle whereas the default fedora build does. and it was easier reskinning fedora than compiling in the required module in ubuntu.

didn't have a problem with volume manager, just choose the right install option and you're fine. selinux though = pita.

and two days ago my £ disappeared. and yesterday it came back.

Prob hold out for Insane Iguana or Jeering Jackal myself.

I hear that Kinky Kangaroo is going to have some way hep features tho.

This is beginning to sound like an awesome Saturday morning cartoon show.

I'd like to use Linux but...

I used the standard update-tool to update from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron.
Near the end of the process it stopped doing anything.
Now it won't boot.
Good times. Guess I'll reinstall the whole damn thing. I won't really lose anything, so it's not that bad, but pretty damn disappointing nevertheless.

Fuck a Linux. RHELL amirite???

Last straw. Chucking Ubuntu completely and buying a mac. Will continue to be fucking useless until they get their shit together.

I'd like to use Linux but... it has decided to FORGET HOW TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET IT CAN'T BE THAT FUCKING DIFFICULT U MANAGED IT BEFORE FUCKING UBUNTU

you're joking, right? Autumn "MR UBUNTU" Almanac?? xp

no I'm not joking, so much is wrong with hardy that it's rapidly becoming unuseable.

Go back to Gutsy, for God's sake! I never even updated and my ride's been smoother than smooth.

Gutsy had the laptop lid closing problem which Hardy still has. Feisty was great but there's stuff it doesn't do very well. I have given up and am buying a mac.

I am stunned.

I am aggrieved.

although vista is seriously precisely 983279238749238749234 times worse so at least there's that.

Thomas, are you dual-booting w/Windows on the same machine? Are you connecting to internet router by ethernet? Might you have used Windows between internets working and internets not working in Linux?

If YES to these many questions, check that Wake On LAN is enabled in Windows, as Windows disables some network cards on shutdown, and whereas Windows startup re-enables them Linux startup doesn't. I had this!

Then I installed some ubuntu updates and networking was stuffed again and no amount of manual setup worked in the normal mode, I have to go into whatever the Linux equivalent of safemode is called and then set up the networking manually and start X all still in emergency boot mode, so if you work it out I'd love to know. Grmbl.

(I have onboard ethernet by Realtek, I forget the model number and it's turned off now so I can't ask it, RTL 8somethingE)

Adam does yr eee still only get a couple hours? What OS you got on it? Nick has XP on his new one and using standby now and then he says he's gotten all day on the thing, even playing music and whatnot on it.

yes, dual booting. but using USB ADSL modem.

was trying to pursuade the wireless card to act as an AP, and think I might have screwed something up there. but its not obvious, and always expects you to know which bloody file the settings are kept in and what the command was again that gives you access to write to that file and and and I give up and go back to windows.

Trayce: yeah, maybe 3-4 with wireless off. I've not timed it recently. The new ones from most manufacturers get 6-8.

Yeah its the new larger-screen one N has now, he upgraded. Think he's still using XP on it same as before. Not sure.

Congrats on choosing Mac. You will not regret it. Fuck Linux.

I think the iphone experience tipped me over the edge.

All desktop Linux can suck my nuts.

flabbergasted

Everything is progressing at an impressive rate, then suddenly everyone at once decides that near enough is good enough and stops fixing bugs. Wank.

An actual gameshow I saw in Vietnam a few days ago

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj58/vzbx/IMGP3896.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj58/vzbx/IMGP3883.jpg

Yes, they are dressed as fruit. No, I do not know why.

In Soviet America, Linux uses you.

Ubuntu 8.10 still doesn't know how to turn off laptop lods. That and Shuttleworth saying he'll stop bankrolling desktop linux means I might as well just fucking go back to winblows.

Intrepid is good so far. Definitely slower. Also, the laptop lid problem remains and nobody gives a shit about it. Perhaps I should update bug #1.

I was really hoping they were going to go with Ipecac Iguana.

Fedora 10 out yesterday ... Plymouth is a good idea. It's just an animated boot-up screen, but I think it's the closest Linux has come to a boot-up process that doesn't overwhelm the casual user with checks and daemons and inits and all that.

The animation is very nice, but you'd hope it doesn't affect booting time.

Also, Ubuntu started masking the daemons/inits list years ago.

that's the first thing i turn back on, i like to see what's happening 8)

(usually because my laptop usually stops at the acpi checks until i add acpi=off to the boot params)