Gusty (Ubuntu 7.10)

[malfist]

Love it, hate it, what? I love it on my laptop with a clean install. It work very nicely and was easily able to get my stylus working with the tablet part of it. On my desktop, it doesn't play so nice. I get random bugs that I can duplicate. All of a sudden ALSA will become locked and nothing I can do will release it short of restarting the computer. Sometimes when hitting ctrl+t in firefox to make a new tab, I instead make like 50-60 tabs and it almost locks up the computer. Not nice. Most of the time when I click on the shutdown button my computer locks hard and the only way I can get it to shutdown (safely) is use the StsRq and Magic Keys combos (busier backwards). Of course, the update crashed on my desktop and I was unable to fix that. I did what they said to do in the forms to little avail. I'm afraid to restart X because 'updates' keeps updating my Nvidia driver to something I can't use.


Whats everyone elses' opinion?

 

[GamingX]

I have Feisty Fawn, afraid of upgrading to Gutsy. I am still not sure if Gutsy is stable. Why don't you try the ubuntu forums?

 

[malfist]

I have, they can't help. I've got all the help from them I can. The forum is flooded with updaters that failed. I might ask again once all this settles down. I think I may throw in the rag on this one and go to Fendora.

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

pc programs will not work in ubuntu right?

 

[Sharky]

I tried it on my laptop for a couple of weeks. Over time, little things 'started happening'. Wireless refusing to connect, repeated SIGSEGV (sp) errors from varying apps. Vista has given me fewer errors than Ubuntu.

 

[Alejandro]

I have Dapper (6.06), I just ordered Gutsy in CD though, I too lazy to download it and am not in such a hurry to install it.

 

[GamingX]

Have you tried the ubuntu irc? The server is freenode and the channel #ubuntu+1 for Gutsy support.

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

Will pc programs and games work on it?

 

[malfist]

Yes, usually. Wine has gotten rather good at running windows applications. (BTW, I'm assuming that you are talking about windows, not the ix86 architecture).

 

[Jigzo]

i personllay hate ubuntu its controls are wierd and i think tehy are hard to get used to

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

Hmm. I got an live cd with KUBUNTU LINUX 7.04. Wonder what that is?

 

[malfist]

7.04 is the old version of Ubuntu, stick with it even if it is KDE instead of GNOME.

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

But why are it called KUBUNTU LINUX? I never had time to test it... Takes 2 hours to run it first time...

 

[Sup3rkirby]

It is called 'Kubuntu' because it uses the K Desktop Environment(aka KDE) instead of GNOME, which is what the regular Ubuntu uses. It is still Ubuntu. The exact same framework and everything. Image it like Windows XP(that look and feel) and the other is WindowBlinds(if you have used that program). It looks and works differently for the desktop. Actually windows has desktop manager replacements...

But yea, Kubuntu is still Ubuntu, just using a different desktop environment(a better one). KDE actually is better really. Not just my opinion, but Linus Torvalds has even ranted about it. He thinks people should switch to KDE now.

Xubuntu is another version which uses the xfce desktop environment. Still Ubuntu, but it uses a smaller desktop environment so it can run on computers with less RAM and slower processors.


While I do like Ubuntu and I believe it was my first Linux distro(or at least my first good linux distro), I have found better Linux distros out there. I have tried Dapper, Fiesty and Gutsy. I think Gutsy is the best so far(Kubuntu Gutsy), but I still have some problems with it all. I really just think Ubuntu in general isn't quite for the new Linux user yet. You should use Linux for a while before you can really enjoy Ubuntu.

Sabayon is amazing. I tried even Ubuntu Gutsy on my laptop and really had trouble connecting wirelessly(on a WEP network and an unencrypted network). And I can't really install the drivers for my wireless card on a laptop(since it was factory and just works automatically, no driver CD). But with Sabayon, for the first time I booted up in Linux and could browse the internet. Plus Sabayon comes with wizards to help make Linux more like XP, and the professional edition comes with Wine and some other apps that help XP users feel at home.

I don't recommend Fedora to anyone. I've tried it. In order I would recommend: Sabayon, Mandriva, Open SUSE, then Ubuntu(Gutsy).

 

[malfist]

Mandriva is nice, so is Open SuSE, I'm gonna give the new Fendora a spin if I get a chance. XUbuntu remains my favorite for installed, low end computers. For just a live CD, DSL toram is my favorite (also my favorite for recovery).