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Ubuntu 9.04
Topic Started: Apr 28 2009, 09:31 PM (355 Views)
DeathStrikeVirus
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This is more for Battyone's sake if he stops back in here.

Ubuntu 9.04 came out a few days ago. I downloaded a few times due to a corrupted download. Once the disk check came back as being good, I attempted to install it...

I installed 9.04 a total of 5 times. The installer is crippled compared to older versions. The basic installer failed to mount onto the other HDDs and make Grub functional, so I had no way of actually getting into Ubuntu. I was also not able to select my software to be installed or if I wanted GNome/KDE or which file system I wanted or how I wanted to partition. I eventually found the partitioning options and file system in some of the advanced features. So after all of this, I was finally installed and ready to go.

I immediately changed the programs I wanted and didn't want. I also transfered all my music files over from another computer. Yes, it immediately recognized the Windows network and connected easily, something I haven't seen done on past versions. The transfer itself was unbelievably fast. It only took minutes to do what it took Vista to do in hours. It was still familiar and easy to use. Flash 10 was also a *Female Dog* to install and get working, that was mostly since I was using the 64bit install.

Ubuntu 9.04 uses Nouveau, an opensource driver for NVidia cards. It pretty much only supports 2D with little to no 3D support. However, Ubuntu did detect my card and offer me the option of installing the NVidia proprietary drivers. Of course I did given I'm a gamer and enjoy 3D support. Restarted. Now I'm in terminal because kinit didn't start. That's ok, I know how to fix this since I had that exact same error message with Ubuntu 8.10. sudo lscpi | grep VGA, sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf, Busid "PCI:1:0:0", and a restart of gnome or the computer. This time it didn't work.

So I said screw it, I'll fix it later and went to boot into Windows. Grub gave me the infamous Error 13. The known fixes for past grub issues didn't work. In the end I pulled out the Windows disk and did a recovery console with "fixboot c".

Ubuntu was considered far ahead of both Fedora and Suse since it has a much faster developement cycle. This time around Ubuntu 9.04 didn't upgrade to the newest kernel, by default uses ext3 instead of ext4, and used an inferior graphics driver by default.

While some things run much faster, these issues ruined my Ubuntu experience for me. Ubuntu has just released their own version of Vista. I'll either be upgrading to 8.10 or switching to another distribution. I enjoy the learning experience I get with linux and attempting to get games to work. Ubuntu 9.04 won't do that for me.

Ubuntu set out to make a linux that Windows users could easily switch to, 9.04 is a step back from that.

I personally cannot recommend installing Ubuntu 9.04, beware because the default install settings could install over your Windows install.
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IrishDragon
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Have you attempted the latest install of Xubuntu instead?
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