[ale] Ubuntu forum Subject "Who else thinks 8.04 is a MAJOR dissapointment?"

[Mike Harrison]

I'm a minimal desktop user..
I mostly use a web browser and Xterm/SSH, 
joe, xmms/vlc (background music), Skype and x-ten softphone.

I upped my "piece of junk desktop" w/Nvidia card to Ubuntu Linux 8.04 -first-
Pretty, everything worked exept skype:
   "padsp skype" on a staticly compiled skype works, sounds not as good
    as it was, but it works. ("padsp" is a Pulse Audio DSP shim)

    XMMS with it's ability to save mp3 streams wasn't available at the time so I've
    been using VLC.

On my big HP laptop, 7.10 did not like the video card, display or external 
display unless I tweaked it a lot, never did get dual screens working well
or the broadcom ethernet card. On 8.04, the screen drivers are excellent,
dual screens work (nVidia), and bcwcutter worked out of the box on my wifi 
card. I also did not have to do the "noapci doscsi" command lines.

On the two other desktops I have put it on.. It's worked well.
Our "Island Sales Girl" is floored that a 1ghz desktop Ubuntu machine
I scrounged and put on her desk is easier to use, faster and more bug-free 
than her 2.4ghz core2 Vista crapware infested laptop.

I have yet to convert my home MythBuntu machine or my other laptop..
but probably will soon. In other words: I'm very happy with Ubuntu 8.04.
Kudos Ubuntu and the entire Linux community.









On Mon, 19 May 2008, James Earl Smith wrote:

> I recently posted the following to the Ubuntu Forum.
>
> I have many trails and fights with my laptop since I started with 6.06.
> It took me a month to get wireless working , but I did it. From 6.06 I
> went to 7.04 and used what I had learned to get things to work in 7.o4
> and 7.10. Now I am up to 8.04, my wireless works fine but wired is dead.
> With each upgrade I have learned to look at the bugs I have as a place
> to learn more about Ubuntu and Linux, Ubuntu has helped me to grow and I
> hope one day to leave M$ in the past and keep going forward with Ubuntu.
>
>
> It is true we all have headaches  when we update our op sys. In the year
> and 2 months I have been learning Ubuntu and linux, I have come to enjoy
> the battles to get the computer working, then passing what I have
> learned to other in the forums.
>
> Where I want to go from here is to find a class or other training so I
> can one day be citified in Ubuntu.
>
> James
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