Re: Well, Windows is back on the disk.

Sasha Tsykin <stsykin@xxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:32:45 +1100

ulrich steffens wrote:
Am Montag, den 16.01.2006, 19:44 +0800 schrieb Michael Richter:

- Ubuntu, however, got confused by my system having two sound cards in

it.  It would randomly switch between them when doing sound-based

things.  Or some programs would ONLY go to the undesired sound card

(because it was card 0) or simply fail to produce sound at all.  If I

removed one sound card, however, and sadly the desired card, all such

confusion vanished.

Someone gave the solution very recently for fixing the confusion among

two cards.

That would be my reference to Mystic Incantations and half-solved

problems.  Implementing that solution now means that some programs

don't make sound at all.  So there's no more confusing switches. 
There's just some programs not working with sound at all.  It's a step

up -- at least when I do get sound it's OK quality -- but it's not

solved.

- Nastiest of all: GNOME just locked up tight when it tried to play

the startup sound and couldn't.

You can use planty GUI's different from Gnome.

I can.  But that puts me even further and further away from Ubuntu,
now, doesn't it?  And it adds more confusion to the end-user
experience to just suddenly change the environment.  Wouldn't it be
better to just not have the sound system kill the GUI?

Now, let's see what is in this link. Too bad, is in french, but maybe

you do read french, or friends of yours do ?

http://www.hns-info.net/article.php3?id_article=4201

I'm English native, German near-native, French semi-competent and
Chinese embarrassing.  ;-)

To say what's interesting to notice, when you buy a computer, almost

always Windows is in it. Then when you need more applications you pay

lots of money for them. When you need help the hotline costs bags of

money and they are not in a hurry to answer. Here in France a comic

woman did a sketch 'allllooooo the hotliiiiine ???' -'Yes, stay tuned,

we'll answer within the three next days!'

Oh, Hell yes!  I've never had a satisfying call into a help line for
software (or hardware, for that matter).  Even some that my employer
paid millions for.  (Literally.)  The thing is, though, that I've
rarely had problems this profound under Windows for basic
functionality.  Indeed only once did I have such problems and the
problems turned out to be a motherboard slowly flaking out.
With Ubuntu it has been mostly an OK-to-good experience.  Except for
sound.  (And I've heard nasty things about printing, but my printer is
currently toast so thankfully I'm not experiencing that particular
nightmare.)  Sound is, quite literally, a show-stopper now.  The times
that I actually want sound are for relaxation and entertainment.  I
just don't appear to be wired correctly to find entertainment and
relaxation through Mystic Incantations.  Perhaps I need to adopt the
Sufi attitude of basically laughing at the absurdity of the world to
catch on.

Can you share your windows and your applications with your friends ? no

you can't, if you want to copy the OS to several machines of yours and

don't have the right license, you can't, if you want to get rid or the

firewell they installed to put an opensource firewall, you can't get rid

of it unless you use a big iron bar to kick it out, do you know why ?

because the software you paid for does not belong to you, but to the

softwares company. And worse of all, after a few times re-installing,

the keycode does not work anymore. 'allloooo the hotline ????'  :((

And yet, using Windows XP the past (about) three years on this laptop,
I've never had problems with any of that.  My firewall is external
(because I don't trust self-hosted firewalling at all, MS or no).  I
don't share my Windows disks.  And I've never needed to do anything
with keycodes.

(How much did you offer for the development of Ubuntu btw ?)

Well, once I get my bearings -- if ever I do -- I will likely start
writing software for it.  Now?  None, of course.  This is the part of
the cycle called "evaluation".

If a company that develops a non free software crashes, and the format

of your documents is not known by open applications, your work is lost.

And yet I can count the number of lost documents I've had since about
1985 on one hand.

And also, during the time I'm learning to look forward and see the

moment I'll learn to compile a kernel, you'll know all the types of

firewalls and anti-virii/anti-all_malwares, while I'm running 3

different distributions to learn how to make them function, as well as a

bunch of applications... now my harware does not fail anymore, it's more

cool...

My hardware has failed more often in the past three weeks than it has
in the three years previous.  Don't be trying to talk about hardware
not failing to me here....

Solution: install with  a dual boot, and

forget the hard life ?

That is, in fact, the solution I adopted.  I just don't like the fact
I had to.  Sound is a very basic piece of functionality that has been
SOLVED in Windows, BeOS, MacOS (various versions, no less!) and a
whole host of other systems for a long time.  Only here in Linux-land
does it appear to be a nightmare of Mystic Incantations.

i still don't get the point in trying ubuntu (linux), which has it's
struggles in hardware support, finding out it doesn't suit your needs
and then telling us that linux is not ready at all, because YOU had a
bad experience. did i miss something?
i mean you only had a bad experience with ONE system, pretty lame then
to coming up with such prediction.
and a counterexperience:
a friend of mine nagged me for weeks that he couldnt get sound working
on hin win98-machine. i ended up saying 'win sucks, try ubuntu'. he
installed 5.04, sound works.
so is win98, not ready for the desktop? and should he write a mail taht
says 'well, ubuntu is back on the disk'?
ulrich

How many times have you heard of windows not working? I agree that 
Ubuntu is not a finished product yet. While I have been distributing it 
to all the various computer-illiterate members of my family, that is 
only for e-mail and internet. I wouldn't want them to be using it for 
anything more complicated because they don't know how to fix it if 
something goes wrond and I can't be bothered to do it fr them. I think 
it's time that people face reality about windows and linux. I happen to 
prefer linux for a variety of reasons, including stability, reliability 
(which are not the same thing) and it's free. Also, until recently I had 
much better performance because Windows 64-bit had not come out yet, and 
even now it is hard to find, and not very good by all reports. That does 
not mean it is better in every respect. In the area of ease-of-use and 
ease-of-setup, Ubuntu, and every other linux, is miles behing Windows. 
You can take that fact from somebody ho migrated a year ago and is only 
now starting to feel confident in his abilities to get things done. 
Please don't get emotional about this, because windows xp does do some 
thing better, fact.
As for windows 98, while it was good when it came out, how can you 
compare it to a modern distribution? There is no basis for comparison. 
Compare apples with apples. That means compare modern linuxes to windows 
xp, because, hears some news for you, very few people actually stil use 
98. And they shouldn't be, because it does suck. Windows 98 is most 
definitely not ready for a modern desktop because it has not been 
developed for 8 years. How can you expect anythign even remotely 
resembling modern hardware to work on it?
Sasha
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