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Originally Posted by FaringEagle  Hi all:
Not getting off on a good foot here. I need to vent my frustrations with Ubuntu. It really is soooooo much trouble. Don't know how else to describe it - it's a flaky mess. I've been 'setting it up' since January. Every day it's another hassle, day after day after day. It's the most problematic OS I have every used. I feel like I have too much time and effort invested in it now to bail out. I just need to vent. In no way does Ubuntu compare to XP. I don't say that as 'Ford vs Chevy.' I say it because, though I'm still hammering and tweaking and configuring this machine, it still won't do what it did with XP. Of well... Who cares. Thanks for letting me blow off steam.
Peace.
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FaringEagle I have felt this frustration and salute you for your determination.
Please consider Rasczak's post regarding your hardware. Some laptops can really be problematic. If you have access to desktop (as opposed to laptop) hardware you may find that hardware less painful.
Also consider trying another Linux distribution. A dated experience of mine: Dual proc P-90, scsi hd's and cdrom, would not boot Debian, booted and installed SuSE 7.2 w/SMP kernel just fine. Point; sometimes another distro does a better job with problematic hardware.
My first Linux box...oh gawd
Customer cast off during a basement remodel in '98. P-200, 64 M ram, 4.3 Gig hd. Win98 would not boot from hd, installfest started a RH 6.0 install. I took the beast home and spent 4 months tinkering with it until I figured out the hd was bad. New hd, yehaw.
Be glad it's 2007.