Linux just plain stinks!

What more can be said?I've spent the last week trying to get Ubuntu to
work on my Dell PC. I can't get sound that doesn't stutter. I can't
connect to my network reliably because Linux's support of this Broadcom
chipset on the Dell motherboard is shitty. I buy a new nic for $4.00 and
install it and Ubuntu can't seem to figure out what to do. I plug my
scanner in and sane says no scanner found. I plug my Creative Zen Vision M
mp3 player in and nothing happens. My printer prints blanks even though
there is toner in it. My email is going someplace called rooty but I can't
figure out who the heck rooty is. He keeps telling me I have mail though
but I can't seem to find it. I tried rm, read mail<?> and found out that
was a bad thing to do. I start programs and they don't start. Programs
that do start sometimes just disappear and end with no error messages at
all. So now I have given up and am going back to Windows because Linux
just sucks and if ubuntu is supposed to be the best Linux or so I was told
then someone is either lying or trying to torture me. So why not let me in
on this linux joke because I sure don't get it. Thank you Traci
Spritzendrainer

Traci Spritzendrainer wrote:
> What more can be said?I've spent the last week trying to get Ubuntu to
> work on my Dell PC. I can't get sound that doesn't stutter. I can't
> connect to my network reliably because Linux's support of this Broadcom
> chipset on the Dell motherboard is shitty. I buy a new nic for $4.00 and
> install it and Ubuntu can't seem to figure out what to do. I plug my
> scanner in and sane says no scanner found. I plug my Creative Zen Vision M
> mp3 player in and nothing happens. My printer prints blanks even though
> there is toner in it. My email is going someplace called rooty but I can't
> figure out who the heck rooty is. He keeps telling me I have mail though
> but I can't seem to find it. I tried rm, read mail<?> and found out that
> was a bad thing to do. I start programs and they don't start. Programs
> that do start sometimes just disappear and end with no error messages at
> all. So now I have given up and am going back to Windows because Linux
> just sucks and if ubuntu is supposed to be the best Linux or so I was told
> then someone is either lying or trying to torture me. So why not let me in
> on this linux joke because I sure don't get it. Thank you Traci
> Spritzendrainer


I think you're lost. alt.i.can't.figure.it.out.whine.whine.whine is
down the hall and to the left.

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:34:49 -0500, Traci Spritzendrainer
<> wrote:

>What more can be said?I've spent the last week trying to get Ubuntu to
>work on my Dell PC.

Another cross-post ...

Have you tried Fedora? Works for me...

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:22:59 +0000, Leythos wrote:

> In article <ekvqf2$33u$>, says...
>> What more can be said?I've spent the last week trying to get Ubuntu to
>> work on my Dell PC.
>
> Try Fedora Core 5, much better product.

I agree with that.
Also PCLinuxOS and mepis are good as well.
A slipstreamed Opensuse (the one with all the fixes on it already) might
be ok as well.

Ubuntu is way too hyped because of the money going into it.
The community is excellent however, but they have a lot of bugs over there.

In article <ekvqf2$33u$>, says...
> What more can be said?I've spent the last week trying to get Ubuntu to
> work on my Dell PC.

Try Fedora Core 5, much better product.
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On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:22:59 GMT, Leythos <> wrote:

>
>Try Fedora Core 5, much better product.

That's what I used, and I made sure not to select Broadcom.

Will Linux ever challenge Windows?

In article <>,
says...
> On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:22:59 GMT, Leythos <> wrote:
>
> >
> >Try Fedora Core 5, much better product.
>
> That's what I used, and I made sure not to select Broadcom.
>
> Will Linux ever challenge Windows?

When people can play windows games and open windows (office) documents
without the loss of common formatting, yes, it will replace Windows on
the desktop easily. The O/S is already there, it's the apps that need
better support.

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On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:21:49 -0500, flatfish+++ wrote:

> Ubuntu is way too hyped because of the money going into it. The community
> is excellent however, but they have a lot of bugs over there.

Geeze, I thought it was just me. (We agree on something... weird.)

If people like and use Ubuntu, more power to them -- but I don't quite get
the attraction.

--
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"

You are seeing evidence of an age-old Linux quandry. There is a time-lag in
Linux distros between the time when a manufacturer ships a new piece of hardware
and someone first develops and tests drivers for it and someone else
incorporates the new drivers into the distro. (I ran into the same sort of
problem with Linux way back in the '90s, when my client insisted on using a
graphics card not supported by his early Linux distro. Reality soon set in and
he substituted another graphics card, and I learned a lot about hardware
supported by ANY operating system: You do not take hardware support for
granted!)

When considering whether or not to use a given Linux distro, find out IN ADVANCE
which of your hardware devices have full support built into the distro. If
some device does not have built-in support, there are several choices available:

1. Replace the unsupported device.
2. Find device drivers for the device elsewhere and install them.
3. Pick another Linux distro.
4. Whine and complain a lot.

If you think Linux is lacking in hardware support, just wait until you install
Vista on your Dell... Ben Myers

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:34:49 -0500, Traci Spritzendrainer <>
wrote:

>What more can be said?I've spent the last week trying to get Ubuntu to
>work on my Dell PC. I can't get sound that doesn't stutter. I can't
>connect to my network reliably because Linux's support of this Broadcom
>chipset on the Dell motherboard is shitty. I buy a new nic for $4.00 and
>install it and Ubuntu can't seem to figure out what to do. I plug my
>scanner in and sane says no scanner found. I plug my Creative Zen Vision M
>mp3 player in and nothing happens. My printer prints blanks even though
>there is toner in it. My email is going someplace called rooty but I can't
>figure out who the heck rooty is. He keeps telling me I have mail though
>but I can't seem to find it. I tried rm, read mail<?> and found out that
>was a bad thing to do. I start programs and they don't start. Programs
>that do start sometimes just disappear and end with no error messages at
>all. So now I have given up and am going back to Windows because Linux
>just sucks and if ubuntu is supposed to be the best Linux or so I was told
>then someone is either lying or trying to torture me. So why not let me in
>on this linux joke because I sure don't get it. Thank you Traci
>Spritzendrainer

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:39:52 GMT, Leythos <> wrote:

>When people can play windows games and open windows (office) documents
>without the loss of common formatting, yes, it will replace Windows on
>the desktop easily. The O/S is already there, it's the apps that need
>better support.

Now that MS is using XML for a lot of its file formats, will that
possibly speed the office documents part of that?

Mac OSX has a version of Unix underneath. Would games for that
platform be more easily converted than those using Windows code?