Public bug reported: I'm using Kubuntu 8.04 beta KDE4. There are over 300 updates upon install. I think these are "security" and not "new stuff". Wow. Not worth regenating the .isos for?
I got the Broadcom wireless working, wow, what a huge pain. True, the huge pain includes trying and failing to get it working with Fedora Core 8, not your fault. And yes, licensing. If the device was already working under Windows, why is the firmware still needed? It is uploaded every reboot or something? My network connection always dies after some not very long time. e.g. with 30 updates left to download of the initial 300+. e.g. part way through a cvs update. I'll have to try piecemeal. Ugh. Other computers on the same network running Windows can keep a network connection much longer, "forever". The only way I have found to restore it is reboot. Which has worked every time so far. It is too difficult to have empty passwords. I am behind a firewall. I don't need passwords. Everything is beautiful, far more pretty than needed. Making things so blue is bad for the eyes. Brown is ugly, but blue is unhealthy. I want a plain basic black desktop. It seems I can only have "EOS". The start/windows key doesn't work. That's just crazy. How many decades is that going to take? The editor kate is the best I have found for Linux, without a ton of looking, but still. When I click the "updates are available" thing at the bottom of the screen, Adept is way too slow to come up. I think it came up and disappeared. I tried again and I got an error about "sudo not knowing the user"; maybe something to do with me enabling root, with an empty password, or something? This sudo stuff is like Vista UAC -- annoying. This is on an AMD64 laptop Compaq R4000, 1.5gig, / is 18% used. I somewhat manually partitioned, since I didn't want to use the whole disk. There is not "automatic, use up to a certain size". I'm up late with people sleeping nearby. The machine keeps making pretty noises. The volume buttons don't work. The volume control in some settings thing might have worked but certainly not across a reboot. Linux gets ever better, and still lags incredibly far behind. I'm attempting to use it to provide software for some other people, but I can't see why/how anyone would "really" chose to use it. Maybe these are all "beta" problems? Maybe I should try 7.10? Or maybe Xubuntu for something with less unnecessary flash. I like KDE, but prefer Firefox. Not sure how to bridge that gap. Dilemna. KDE tries to be this big integrated environment, and it is mostly good, so seems reasonable to give its web browser. I don't trust Apple besides, and I associate Konquerer with Apple. Esp. to run the same browser on Unix and Windows. I'll try apt-get install firefox. when you right click on the desktop to hunt for how to get rid of the unhealthy blue background, the drawing of that menu is a bit glitchy. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/reportproblem comes up empty, hm. http://www.ubuntu.com/community same problem, but http://www.ubuntu.com works ok. I'll probably hotmail this feedback over to Windows, or try Firefox. Confirmed: empty in Konquerer, works in Firefox. I don't have the time to break this down into a bunch of bug reports, sorry. Or register for yet another forum area. Ok, I registered to report a bug. I haven't tried to watch a DVD yet.. This is basic scenario that Linux has failed many times in the past.. - Jay ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- misc feedback https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/218042 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
