[olug] trouble

[Brian Roberson]

So, I will just put in my 2 cents without any long winded explanations.....


I seem to have the exact opposite experience you describe below... For me, ubuntu has been both a stable, reliable and easy to admin server and a great desktop for those I have convinced to convert. I must admit that I run relatively new hardware, but in general, I have not ran into your complaints on newer (within the last 5 years) hardware.





On Dec 27, 2009, at 10:33 PM, Luke-Jr wrote:

> On Thursday 24 December 2009 02:14:04 pm DYNATRON tech wrote:
>> the innovation of ubuntu is that it is the most user-friendly distro.
>> little-to-no configuration is needed for it to work properly on most modern
>> hardware. it's optimistically the windows killer, pessimistically it's just
>> a really good distro.
> 
> Linux does all the hardware stuff, and as Rob pointed out via Greg's article, 
> Canonical/Ubuntu do next to nothing there. In theory, anything using Linux 
> will work on the same hardware. That said, I have been constantly amazed at 
> how Ubuntu won't even boot on a single PC I own, and always has hardware 
> issues on every system I've tried it on. Also, I *only* use Linux, so it's NOT 
> a problem with Linux in general. So, no, Ubuntu is FAR from good (or even 
> decent) in the "it just works" area regarding hardware...
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