Comments on: A painful upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

By: gsv

gsv — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:07:59 +0000

It isn’t about price… to answer the question posed in the first posts… I bought a Vista laptop and it was… well it was Vista, letś leave it at that… so I bit the bullet and revisited Linux via Hardy… not everything worked perfectly but it was a far better upgrade… I didn’t expect to BE able to do everything that I could in Windows however I can do far more actually… 1 example I am constantly running anywhere between 10 and 30 different applications on my 8 desktops of all types… I never have to worry about resources and speed… and the only thing I miss is Ableton Live… I loved XPSP2 for what it did for me but there are sooo many more options for making this computer operate HOW I WANT IT TO… it truly is personalised to my work routine and THAT is the real difference… oh and the fact that if something DOES break then it CAN be fixed by me… as far as “being on your own” goes you have to be kidding if you think that there is more support and solutions in the Windows community… Windows is a simple fix sure… the same one all the time really… pay money for someone else or something else to fix the problem… and just as a last point my day job is managing a cross platform network for a small Sydney corporation… so I deal with issues on Windows and Mac all day long as the only Linux machine on the network is mine…

By: tim

tim — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:20:49 +0000

@John

I am fully up and running now; but not all the problems were bad luck with this machine, as it were. Windws PPTP VPN was broken in the 8.10 release build. The Tablet stylus support is semi-broken; haven’t quite got to the bottom of this, but I had to make manual changes to xorg.conf to get stylus support back. The Create USB drive applet seems to depend on mtools but mtools doesn’t get installed by default. Similar dependency issue with Compiz which broke because libgl1-mesa-dri was not installed and apparently should have been, though Synaptic didn’t report any dependency issues in either case.

Tim

By: John

John — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:36:05 +0000

I’ve upgraded three Herons to Ibex without any issues, one of them a laptop with only a wireless connection. For me though, I had Linux in mind when purchasing the laptop, so I made sure there would be as few issues as possible with hardware.

On a side note, my uncle called me yesterday saying that his computer complained that it couldn’t find NTLDR while booting after upgrading his Windows XP to SP3…. ;P

By: Clyde Davies

Clyde Davies — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:53:05 +0000

I only wish it did just boil down to purchase cost, but as Tim has pointed out above, there’s more to the issue than that.

By: kiro

kiro — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:44:07 +0000

To Clyde:

I’d rephrase your question: What do you prefer to do in Linux -for free- that you don’t on windows -paying-.

By: Clyde Davies

Clyde Davies — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:30:56 +0000

Just as a matter of interest, what do you prefer to do on Linux that you don’t on Windows? I had Ubuntu running in a VM on my workstation at home and was impressed by the speed, power and flexibility. There was little I could do on it that I couldn’t do just as easily on Windows, however.

And then again, when it goes wrong as it did for you, you are pretty much on your own. This should not be an insurmountable problem for the likes of us, but heaven help the novice.