Linked by Neil Lucock on Tue 22nd Feb 2005 22:17 UTC
I'd better start by admitting that I'm a fan of KDE. It's not because it works like Windows, but for the quality of the tools available. However, a GUI is just a way of doing something and I think I've been a bit dismissive of the Gnome desktop up to now. I read a few reviews of Ubuntu, looked at their web site and decided to have a look. I wanted a general purpose (desktop) distribution and an opportunity to get to know the Gnome utilities.
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Ah,
Where should I start. I've been using Debian on servers for years, so I have pretty good picture about how it works. On the other hand, I've been using Red Hat (and these days Fedora) on the desktops since 5.2. or something.
Last weekend I had a dream about creating FOSS DTP environment. Since now it's satisfactory even technically by running native programs like sodipodi, gimp and scribus. Anyways, I thought by using ubuntu I could draw the line between my experiences with GNU/Linux servers and desktops, taking the best of both.
My dream didn't come true.
First of all, Ubuntu fucked up my MBR. Something that has never happened to me before. And when I say fucked up - I mean that literally, I got an error saying something like "No operating system available", when I tried to boot.
Well, after I fixed that (and missed The Other Operating System on desktop), started the dpkg rumba. It went as usual, no biggie. Besides not being able to find a mirror near me. But when I booted it first time to configure all the packages and everything, it just simply - didn't work.
It wasn't the root account or anything like that. Something else, which I can't put my finger on. No wait, yes I can. My Palm didn't work, sound didn't work (SB Live!) and so forth. And on the top of everything else - it looked horrible. VAX VMS looked fine being beige, but brown - gimme a break.
Damn, I'm in a hurry so I'll just tie up everything by saying, Ubuntu (human) is not the kind of person I would like to meet again.