Hello!
Very well said, Valtam. No one Linux distro can be all things to all people. Even Windows has certain aspects that can't be handled by any other way than a command prompt.
I guess MY biggest complaint about the 'Buntus is that they upgrade them long before most of the bugs in the current versions get fixed. Six months just ISN'T enough time!
After all, XP is now 12-13 years old. It needs a 'rollup pack', like they did for 2000. You can't REALLY expect PERPETUAL support, can you?
Windows 7 CAN BE an option for current XP users. OEM copies of Windows 7 Professional can be had for around $60 or so, maybe less. Don't forget that gigabyte plus of updates you'll need to download, also.
With Windows 7, MOST XP machines will probably need more RAM and more HD space to run it. Even on PCs with 1-2 GB of RAM, Windows 7 can STILL be painfully slow. For the money, one might as well just buy a new PC with Windows 8 pre-installed. (BTW, SOME OEMs WILL install 7 instead - at a considerable premium, of course.) Additionally, Windows 7 (and 8.1) gives some of MY built-in WiFi adapters FITS! Sometimes they'll connect; sometimes not. Windows 8 also still has a long way to go in other aspects.
Trust me, folks - Valtam's scripts make things a LOT easier for the n00bs out there! I've never seen them used to this extent in other distros; I see them as LL's strongest selling point. In addition to LL's Software Center, one can always install Lubuntu Software Center or Ubuntu Software Center.
Having installed LL on several different machines made by different companies, I have found quirks in LL (and other distros as well) that are pretty much machine-specific. With the development team being unable to duplicate these, I don't realistically see 'fixes' for them - which, by ME, is OK. NONE of them are anything I can't live with. If they were, I'd move on to another distro.
Some of MY problems have been the result of bad ISO downloads. The FIRST thing ANYONE should do when installing a new OS is to run a 'hash check' (MD5/SHA1; in Windoze, I use MD5Summer) to verify a proper DL of the ISO file before proceeding.
For those with driver problems, I have suggested using ndiswrapper and the known-to-work XP drivers. With better hardware support in the kernel these days, we don't hear nearly as much about ndiswrapper as we once did, but UIAM, it's still a valid solution for some folks with driver issues. Some of these issues I've seen here haven't been fixed in any OTHER distros, either.
To close, there are a LOT other Linux distros out there. Ask 100 people what their favorite Linux distro is. Chances are, you're liable to get 150-200 different answers. If you think LL has a bug, try some LiveCDs of other distros to see if the problem changes. If so, then perhaps you may have a case when it come to reporting a 'bug'...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
Very well said, Valtam. No one Linux distro can be all things to all people. Even Windows has certain aspects that can't be handled by any other way than a command prompt.
I guess MY biggest complaint about the 'Buntus is that they upgrade them long before most of the bugs in the current versions get fixed. Six months just ISN'T enough time!
After all, XP is now 12-13 years old. It needs a 'rollup pack', like they did for 2000. You can't REALLY expect PERPETUAL support, can you?
Windows 7 CAN BE an option for current XP users. OEM copies of Windows 7 Professional can be had for around $60 or so, maybe less. Don't forget that gigabyte plus of updates you'll need to download, also.
With Windows 7, MOST XP machines will probably need more RAM and more HD space to run it. Even on PCs with 1-2 GB of RAM, Windows 7 can STILL be painfully slow. For the money, one might as well just buy a new PC with Windows 8 pre-installed. (BTW, SOME OEMs WILL install 7 instead - at a considerable premium, of course.) Additionally, Windows 7 (and 8.1) gives some of MY built-in WiFi adapters FITS! Sometimes they'll connect; sometimes not. Windows 8 also still has a long way to go in other aspects.
Trust me, folks - Valtam's scripts make things a LOT easier for the n00bs out there! I've never seen them used to this extent in other distros; I see them as LL's strongest selling point. In addition to LL's Software Center, one can always install Lubuntu Software Center or Ubuntu Software Center.
Having installed LL on several different machines made by different companies, I have found quirks in LL (and other distros as well) that are pretty much machine-specific. With the development team being unable to duplicate these, I don't realistically see 'fixes' for them - which, by ME, is OK. NONE of them are anything I can't live with. If they were, I'd move on to another distro.
Some of MY problems have been the result of bad ISO downloads. The FIRST thing ANYONE should do when installing a new OS is to run a 'hash check' (MD5/SHA1; in Windoze, I use MD5Summer) to verify a proper DL of the ISO file before proceeding.
For those with driver problems, I have suggested using ndiswrapper and the known-to-work XP drivers. With better hardware support in the kernel these days, we don't hear nearly as much about ndiswrapper as we once did, but UIAM, it's still a valid solution for some folks with driver issues. Some of these issues I've seen here haven't been fixed in any OTHER distros, either.
To close, there are a LOT other Linux distros out there. Ask 100 people what their favorite Linux distro is. Chances are, you're liable to get 150-200 different answers. If you think LL has a bug, try some LiveCDs of other distros to see if the problem changes. If so, then perhaps you may have a case when it come to reporting a 'bug'...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
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