How are you Ubuntu users liking the Lynx?

[NaOH]

I hopped over from day one, the LTS badge got me salivating. Kind of a rocky start for me; I use Kubuntu, and I was suffering from that hideous xorg memory leak. Kind of sad something like that pushed through to final release, and of an LTS no less. It gets worse, that memory leak was acknowledged before the final release Well, a few months in and its pretty much smoothed over finally. I'm pretty content with it as of now.

Gnome, now there's a different story. I'm using it for my media pc's, and its fine for that, but man are they making us jump through hoops to customize now. Kind of sickly ironic that as they start locking down the gui of this OS, it shares a version number VERY similar to another unix OS (OSX 10.4/10.04) AND shares a nickname VERY similar to that same OS (Tiger/Lynx); AND for that cherry topper, even placed the nautilus window management buttons to the left.

But hey, its smoothed out now, all in all I'm pretty happy, how bout yall.

 

[Rhetoric Camel]

I really am enjoying the way it's running. I like it much better than 8.10 and 9.04, those are the only other versions I've had. 10.04 is running smoother than windows ever did. Although I still need windows I spend a lot of my time using Ubuntu.

 

[quasimod]

Oh, hai! I just thought I'd blunder into this thread and flail around a bit, since I have very poor judgement. Here's the thing:

I've tried to install Linux on a couple of laptops, and both times it turned into a 2-day ordeal that left me never wanting to see another cartoon penguin for the rest of my life. The last time was Ubuntu on a brand new laptop, so I shouldn't have been shocked. My question is, now that my laptop is a couple of years old (Gateway FX 16-something or other) do you guys think Ubuntu can manage an install on it's own? I've given up on trying to type it into submission, I'm looking for a big green button that says "Push Here, Dummy". I'm thinking that if I can get a working OS I might be able to learn something about it.

Sorry for the thread-jack.

 

[Nyxie]

Oh, hai! I just thought I'd blunder into this thread and flail around a bit, since I have very poor judgement. Here's the thing:

I've tried to install Linux on a couple of laptops, and both times it turned into a 2-day ordeal that left me never wanting to see another cartoon penguin for the rest of my life. The last time was Ubuntu on a brand new laptop, so I shouldn't have been shocked. My question is, now that my laptop is a couple of years old (Gateway FX 16-something or other) do you guys think Ubuntu can manage an install on it's own? I've given up on trying to type it into submission, I'm looking for a big green button that says "Push Here, Dummy". I'm thinking that if I can get a working OS I might be able to learn something about it.

Sorry for the thread-jack.

Sounds like me. LOL 9.04 Ubuntu was easy to install, but when I let it update to 9.10 (i think that was the version, cant remember now) the wireless stopped working and I gave up. Again.
I know have an ethernet cable on this box but I am over it. It is still dual booting but I never let it . I have to many things I need to run and no time to figure out how to make fake windows.

 

[NaOH]

Pfft, not a thread jack! Well my media "pc" is a 3-4 year old HP notebook; all devices were detected and worked flawlessly EXCEPT the damn touchpad. Device was detected as an apple pointing device of all things. I never cared to fight it because the thing sits under a tv with the lid closed now and until the day it dies.

That being said, it seems the coverage of hardware old and new gets better with every release (although there is the occasional regression: my tv tuner card behaved a tad better under 9.04 than it does under 10.04). My personal desktop took the install without a hitch despite the memory leak, but thats the OS not the hardware support.

Hate to admit it, but I've never had a linux install that was 100% off the bat; there's always something to fiddle with out of the gate, but after a few days of tinkering the box runs on into eternity without a hiccup. That's the trade off: A little blood sweat and tears for long term stability.

Rhetoric: Have you tried vmware workstation for linux? Its snappy fast now with xp

 

[NaOH]

I too have to use windows from time to time. Always hated dual-booting. Grub I can handle, but windows and its management of MBR's, bleh. Can't say enough about vmware. If you're not willing to shell it out for vmware there's also VirtualBox, free, and pretty solid, just not as polished as vmware; doesn't handle the cursor transition as smoothly, networking and shared directories can be a little trickier. Still better than dual-booting though. Well, unless you're going for gaming, you'll always need a baremetal windows install for that, unfortunately

 

[Distorted.Clarity]

linux mint is ubuntu only with codec installed.. anyone with k or u should try that.
as for me mandriva is a linux dream!

i actually just started using linux and i have to say it's by far quicker at everything.
with windows i would reinstall from scratch every 3 or less months, because i couldn't stand the performance decrease after that amount of time.

 

[PaulB]

I just upgraded to 10.04 on my underpowered Netbook. Haven't yet noticed a significant difference--except maybe a bit more hurky-jurkyness in performance. Mainly though, I'm really bugged that Firefox gets bloatier and bloatier with each release, and after a year or more they still have not fixed the Ubuntu version bug that kills the auto-suggest in the location bar (until one opens and closes a new window).

 

[quasimod]

Never tried (or read about) vmware workstation, but I'm not opposed to paying for something that works. My laptop came w/Vista. I'll check into it, especially if the purchase price also nets me some kind of installation support. If I had paid for something w/support years ago, I wouldn't need training wheels now.

Thanks!

 

[NaOH]

I ran Mint (KDE) for a while, but ended up going back to plain 'ol Kubuntu after realizing the KDE version of Mint wasn't earth shattering. May as well rule out some Mint specific difference being an issue. I think its a real shame the Mint project stopped putting out Fluxbox releases. I don't know of anyone else making sexy Fluxbox releases anymore

You know what else is sad about Firefox? No 64bit release! Chrome on the other hand, quite nice on linux; I've almost completely switched to it.

What's also nice with vmware, is you can double up on training wheels: Make a replica of your main installation as a VM; if you're unsure about making a modification, do it in the virtual machine first. It isn't 100%, but chances are if it doesn't break your vm it probably won't break your box.

 

[JollyRogers]

I am a Slackware junkie @home. Started back with windows 98 and never got better. Really like Ubuntu for it's ease of installation etc. Even convinced the boss to use Ubuntu on the netbooks we purchased, but in the end it didn't go over to well with the users. Mostly because the netbooks are so small, not because of the OS. May have to give the latest a try I think!