Gusty (Ubuntu 7.10)

[malfist]

Love it, hate it, what? I love it on my laptop with a clean install. It work very nicely and was easily able to get my stylus working with the tablet part of it. On my desktop, it doesn't play so nice. I get random bugs that I can duplicate. All of a sudden ALSA will become locked and nothing I can do will release it short of restarting the computer. Sometimes when hitting ctrl+t in firefox to make a new tab, I instead make like 50-60 tabs and it almost locks up the computer. Not nice. Most of the time when I click on the shutdown button my computer locks hard and the only way I can get it to shutdown (safely) is use the StsRq and Magic Keys combos (busier backwards). Of course, the update crashed on my desktop and I was unable to fix that. I did what they said to do in the forms to little avail. I'm afraid to restart X because 'updates' keeps updating my Nvidia driver to something I can't use.


Whats everyone elses' opinion?

[GamingX]

I have Feisty Fawn, afraid of upgrading to Gutsy. I am still not sure if Gutsy is stable. Why don't you try the ubuntu forums?

[malfist]

I have, they can't help. I've got all the help from them I can. The forum is flooded with updaters that failed. I might ask again once all this settles down. I think I may throw in the rag on this one and go to Fendora.

[galaxyAbstractor]

pc programs will not work in ubuntu right?

[Sharky]

I tried it on my laptop for a couple of weeks. Over time, little things 'started happening'. Wireless refusing to connect, repeated SIGSEGV (sp) errors from varying apps. Vista has given me fewer errors than Ubuntu.

[Alejandro]

I have Dapper (6.06), I just ordered Gutsy in CD though, I too lazy to download it and am not in such a hurry to install it.

[GamingX]

Have you tried the ubuntu irc? The server is freenode and the channel #ubuntu+1 for Gutsy support.

[galaxyAbstractor]

Will pc programs and games work on it?

[malfist]

Yes, usually. Wine has gotten rather good at running windows applications. (BTW, I'm assuming that you are talking about windows, not the ix86 architecture).

[Jigzo]

i personllay hate ubuntu its controls are wierd and i think tehy are hard to get used to