Comments on: Why can’t they just work together?

By: zachdude1094

zachdude1094 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:04:33 +0000

@Dave,
No, I don’t think that this will totally turn me off from Linux, but it will make me more cautious in the future.

@ubuntucat,
I did troubleshoot this problem, for most of the time I was on the OS that’s all I did. If you had read my article fully you would have seen where I mentioned that.

I did try ubuntu, and it worked fine, I had none of the problems that I had once I installed it when I was running it off of the Live CD.

Maybe it was because of the fact that I had no “linux driver”, but that was one of my lesser problems.

I will definitely take more precautions next time I try and run a different OS. That was the first and last time I’m wiping my windows partition for another OS.

Like I wrote in my post, I’m glad to be back in Windows.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:29:24 +0000

I can understand you being pissed about f-disking your hard drive to install an OS you found to be suboptimal, but I’ve installed Ubuntu, and plenty of other Linuxen, on so many different computers without problems as to know they generally just work.
Personally, I don’t much care for Ubuntu (I run Slackware Linux) but I hope your experience with it doesn’t turn you entirely off to Linux. There’s alot of quality distributions out there and I’m positive you could find one, or five, that work well for you and your box.
Cheers

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:58:51 +0000

So if I install Windows on my netbook, and it’s not functioning properly right away, I can then call it “a faulty operating system”?

I can appreciate you not wanting to bother troubleshooting, but you can hardly say Ubuntu is a faulty operating system based on your one experience. It’s possible all the freeze-ups could have been due to there being no proper Linux driver for your graphics card.

I think the next time you want to try Ubuntu, don’t just reformat Windows straightaway. Install Ubuntu inside Windows using VirtualBox, or set up a dual-boot using Wubi. Take it slow.

Wiping out Windows right away will lead only to extreme frustration at the first hurdle you encounter.