Comments on: Ubuntu 10.04: The Perfect Consumer Operating System?

By: Ranide

Ranide — Sat, 14 May 2011 20:46:05 +0000

Hi there I wanna use TataPhoton device to get connected to internet on my Ubuntu system, but I (being a new to Linux) don’t know how to do so. I request you to help me with this. Thanks a lot

By: bendib

bendib — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

HOW DARE THEY MOVE THE BUTTONS!!!!! HOW DARE THEY GET RID OF GIMP!!!! HOW DARE THEY BASE UBUNTU ON DEBIAN UNSTABLE!!!!!!! Long Live Fedora! (but damn 12 to HELL!)

By: kghosh22

kghosh22 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Has the Net-Manager applet been fixed in this release ?

By: rdevoe

rdevoe — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i put ubuntu netbook remix on my msi wind netbook and have had zero problems. Of course I\’m just a low end user, no youtube posts. no all day im ing , i dont edit video , i could care less whats on my ipod (did get it working though i detest itunes) . I install new distros on old pcs from time to time. Fedora12 looks good but getting all the multimedia working is a pain. If i recall my UNR played flash video quick and easy. If a pretty paint job (desktop) gets people weaned from the big players , more power to Linux. People are so scared of free (or cheap) software . If more people started with Linux they would have more of an idea of how things work. There are so many people who have no clue and want to stay that way. Anything that helps in expanding the masses mindset has to be a good thing . IMHO

By: jonjermey

jonjermey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So they\'ve taken OUT the image editor and put IN a video editor? Because more people edit videos than images? Or because video editors are cool and GIMP has an embarrassing name? Just change the name, folks, that\'s all you need to do. There\'s nothing wrong with GIMP.

You could call it the Pictorial Ubuntu Service.

By: silverwave

silverwave — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have been using Lucid since March 19 and it is rock solid, I love it.

I usually install the Ununtu RC\'s but never a Beta.

In this case you are safe - its from testing and its a LTS.

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If you are on Karmic and want to test lucid use TestDrive.

Terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:testdrive/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install testdrive

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Then run “TestDrive” (System Tools menu).

By: silverwave

silverwave — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Forgot to link to my Lucid report:
http://silverwav.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/taking-a-chance-on-lucid-10-04-beta-1/

Oh and Gimp takes 2 min to install so no big.

By: excaliber27

excaliber27 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, this is a huge improvement from 9.10. Nice work Mark Shuttleworth.
In the 9.10 release, I was subject to the nvidia n6600 issue, not allowing the live OS or install to boot. Therefore, the only way I could do an install was through a clean copy of 9.04 and upgrade to 9.10.
But not this time. Here nouveau helps out, allowing the 10.04 lts beta 1 to boot. And it\’s faster.
Looks like Ubuntu is now ready to make serious inroads to the pc OS market again.

Nice work and a solid kudos from http://www.linuxgameconsortium.com

By: dmesg

dmesg — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Installed on P4 1 GHz w/2GB RAM... not bad, but the software manager is a pain.

It appears to begin searching the 30,000 or so packages the instant you type one letter in the search window, which basically stops it right there. I have had to kill/restart the software package manager 5-6 times now, I have spent 5 hours with it and only got it to install wireshark and a few samba server packages.

I thought Mandriva\'s package manager was slow and klunky... but damn it works, never locks up and finds things in seconds, not hours like this ubuntu thing...

By: boysha

boysha — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Time to maybe try Linux Mint to see what highly professional, sleek, commercial grade operating system is. I know it\'s made from Ubuntu but the point is that, what Ubuntu is showing just now, Mint has shown a couple of years ago.
Just a thought...

By: perles

perles — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don\’t use Ubuntu and I don\’t like it either, but it would be great to see the biggest Linux spam getting mature and achieving its so dreamed goal – easy use. It is good for everybody, even who does not like it. However, if they had based their desktop on KDE their results would be a lot easier and lot more polished now.

By: basilf

basilf — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am a fan of Ubuntu but its like its a bueaty queen keep changing its look. I use Ubuntu and Windows 7 something I would never do, but printer driver are VERY lacking in Dell brands or not at all.

I have a Dell V105 which is going straight to the bin as soon as I get the fully functional Brother 4 in 1 on Linux. Some companies Dell should actually support there hardware in Linux since it claims it supports Ubuntu, but it quietly removed Ubuntu support here in Canada. What they call support is a single Indian Man not even in a Dell building who had no clue what a terminal was or that there were more than one GUI, very very sad.

I plan to drop Windows 7 I can now run Window Office under wine in Ubuntu 9.10 its a snap. I hope Ubuntu 10.4 has pre-installed wine 1.4?? or higher it makes my 100% switch that much easier. I can\'t wait for 10.4 the beta version is a blast, finally the dog S#$%$#% theme is gone.

By: korin43

korin43 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I just wanted to say two things:

1) The placement of the minimize-maximize-close buttons matters. Not to technical users, but Ubuntu\'s target audience: people who think their computer has a virus if the buttons are in the wrong place. Just trust me on this, if you take Ubuntu, stick the taskbar on the bottom of the screen, change the Applications-Something-Something menu to a single button that says \"Start\" and change Firefox\'s name to \"Internet Explorer, your grandma won\'t be able to tell the difference, but if you take that same setup and put the close button on the left side of the windows, she\'ll flip out and say that she doesn\'t understand how to use her computer (and will probably never accept it).

2) I wish Ubuntu would just make the options \"Rolling Release\" and \"Long term support\" and not put people through major upgrades every 6 months. Ubuntu\'s problems are no worse than we get with Windows. The differences are that you don\'t upgrade Windows every 6 months and you can download new programs without updating Windows.

By: grabur

grabur — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I\'m still happily using hardy, so @korin43 I don\'t know what you\'re moaning about, you don\'t have to be bleeding edge. I\'ve had ubuntu on my system for years and stuck on the last LTS, as it has been pretty much solid. I\'ve a few irritations with compiz and my screensaver but I\'ve learnt my way around them.

Synaptic has always been slow. The new software centre looks absolutely horrible. If they like the mac way of doing things why not follow the mac installer idea?

I hope suspend resume woes will be banished, and the network manager will be better. If ubuntu really want to copy osx, they should copy the mac preferences panel. I can\'t stand drilling through menus for things, it\'s bad enough in windows.

The theme still looks all over the shop. Orange icons and purple... gasp. Let\'s hope the release is more than eye candy.

It would be nice to know what\'s new in the server edition. I use ubuntu server, and it\'s been more user friendly than redhat. I\'ve had no compulsion to try the interim server releases.

By: froner

froner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Huh? They don\'t ship Gimp? Why? It\'s why I began using Linux. Is it the name?
Put it in caps: G.I.M.P.. It\'s the finest example of an application that is valuable being made available to the people who need it.

Zeno (an artist)

By: csmart

csmart — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@dmesg
Try the Synaptic Package Manager under System -> Administration, rather than the Software Centre.

@froner
They ship GIMP, just not with the default install. You can install it easily via the package manager.

-c

By: ionesco

ionesco — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Throw out the photoediting and install videoediting? Doesn\’t make much sense for a consumer. Neither does OS X which is usually more about making stuff looking cool instead of useful.

By: justanotherreader

justanotherreader — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don\’t get the gripe about Ubuntu\’s old color scheme. It might have seemed odd for those used to the brain-numbing Mac and MS schemes, and every newb immediately complained about the \”Ubuntu Browns\”, but after a while, its quality outshone first impressions. – now we get butt-hole purple!!
First thing I\’ll be doing is removing the default theme and installing one of older human themes… colors of yams and earth. — anybody who likes the new color scheme is obviously into the look of butt-holes.

Oh, and you were full of it in your previous posts, and you\’re still full of it…

By: csmart

csmart — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@justanotherreader
Thanks for the encouragement!

-c

By: dmesg

dmesg — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Took me a while but I finally got around to your suggestion. (because I needed to wipe the drive for a different test) Indeed bypassing \"software center\" is a bit faster. Might be a while before I get back to looking at Ubuntu but from what I\'ve seen so far I can say that I certainly will...

Thanks for the shout back with the suggestion.

BTW thanks \'justanothereader\' for the good laugh. I just love the obtuse non sequitur... keep \'em flying. =D