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Open Letter to those of you who use Ubuntu
15 years ago
For Christmas a relative gave me an Asus EEE PC she no longer wanted. It came with Windows 7, but Windows 7 felt like the wrong tool for the job, though I do admit it's progressed from the dark days of Windows XP.
I decided to give a build of Ubuntu called "Easy Peasy" a try (optimized for my system and based off of Netbook Remix) It made a decent impression at first, and for the first week I was happy and got it running all slick. For the following weeks it has fallen apart faster than a $300.00 Wal-mart laptop (uh oops lol).
I'm going to cut to the chase here - it sucks. If Google Chrome bogs down it takes the entire system with it ala Classic MacOS. We're talking even the cursor becomes unresponsive. On two occasions in the past month I've had video card errors (as in the screen displays gibberish). Half of the updates won't install for various errors to which there is insufficient documentation. It's slow and decreases battery life by ~30% compared to Windows 7. Sometimes (rarely but it does happen) the trackpad drivers don't load on boot. So looking for an honest answer, is this the norm? Should I not be looking a free-software gift horse in the mouth? I mean it's functional enough, and I'm not expecting it to run like a Mac, but this seems awfully high maintenance. Is this just a particularly sloppy version?
Then there are other things that I can't decide if it's Easy Peasy, Ubuntu, or Linux in general. For example, the "workspaces" - is there a way to scroll in the main menu without it switching workspaces? That's a helluva lot more intuitive/relevant. And why does it come up on random intervals?
Most importantly, is there a way to switch my boot partition back to Windows without going through the terminal?
I decided to give a build of Ubuntu called "Easy Peasy" a try (optimized for my system and based off of Netbook Remix) It made a decent impression at first, and for the first week I was happy and got it running all slick. For the following weeks it has fallen apart faster than a $300.00 Wal-mart laptop (uh oops lol).
I'm going to cut to the chase here - it sucks. If Google Chrome bogs down it takes the entire system with it ala Classic MacOS. We're talking even the cursor becomes unresponsive. On two occasions in the past month I've had video card errors (as in the screen displays gibberish). Half of the updates won't install for various errors to which there is insufficient documentation. It's slow and decreases battery life by ~30% compared to Windows 7. Sometimes (rarely but it does happen) the trackpad drivers don't load on boot. So looking for an honest answer, is this the norm? Should I not be looking a free-software gift horse in the mouth? I mean it's functional enough, and I'm not expecting it to run like a Mac, but this seems awfully high maintenance. Is this just a particularly sloppy version?
Then there are other things that I can't decide if it's Easy Peasy, Ubuntu, or Linux in general. For example, the "workspaces" - is there a way to scroll in the main menu without it switching workspaces? That's a helluva lot more intuitive/relevant. And why does it come up on random intervals?
Most importantly, is there a way to switch my boot partition back to Windows without going through the terminal?
Just chiming in ^^
Things like a web browser taking down the entire OS are what I'm more concerned about.
From your last question I assume it's booting into easy peasy and you have to bring a terminal up to switch over to windows 7?
If you have both OSes installed, normally it shows you the option to choose, if that's set automatically to ubuntu, there could be a few ways to fix that. BIOS might have it, but in windows there's a way to choose the default boot device. It's normally in System properties -> advanced -> Startup and recovery. I don't have windows 7, but startup and recovery hopefully is still there. I'm not sure how it's going to react to the easypeasy (like whether or not it even shows up in there to switch off of), so you may need to go into easypeasy to change it =(
Unless I'm mistaking your question.
Hopefully you've already got this figured out...