L. Vordark ([info]vordark) wrote,
@ 2008-07-21 08:09:00
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Current mood: disappointed

Gee, Thanks!
So I had a bunch of updates to Ubuntu I decided to install this morning. Well, that didn't turn out so well. Apparently there was a kernel upgrade and it hosed a bunch of stuff. My video drivers went kerblooey, as did VirtualBox. Given this fairly intolerable asshattery, and the fact that the EVE Linux client continues to be good, but not perfect, I'm going back to Windows.

I will dearly miss my desktop cube and the many other awesome features, but I'm sorry. Something as trivial as a software update shouldn't require me to perform brain surgery in order to get my machine to actually work.

I hear tell that there will be a new version of Ubuntu out sometime in October, and I might try it again, but for now it's back to Microsoft.

Ah well. At least I'll have beer today.


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[info]fruitcake
2008-07-21 08:58 pm UTC (link)
I need you to keep running *nix as it amuses me no end to hear you rant about it. I mean, I have similar problems, though a different distro, and mine are sadly mostly crappy cheap hardware related I think, I'm just a lot less eloquent. You need to get your rant on more!

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[info]vordark
2008-07-22 08:37 pm UTC (link)
lol. I'd love to oblige you, but I just can't. I'm very satisfied with Ubuntu in terms of the interface (Compiz and all that), etc. But when something as trivial as updating my software hoses my machine I have to pass.

But don't worry! I'm sure the fact that I have moved to Windows won't put much of a damper on my ranting. ;)

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[info]fruitcake
2008-07-22 09:09 pm UTC (link)
I (still) don't run windows so it's so much harder for me to commiserate then though..

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[info]cmos_blue
2008-07-26 07:35 pm UTC (link)
Dual-boot so you can play with Ubuntu when you're bored :) or you could just do the LiveCD/LiveDVD messing if you ever feel the need to muck about with the Compiz Cube :D

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[info]vordark
2008-07-31 06:48 pm UTC (link)
I've thought of this, but I'm just not a dual-boot kind of guy. Keeping data synchronized is never trivial (at least for me), and more often than not I find myself in the wrong OS for what I want to be doing. :(

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