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A Mythbuster's Biggest Tech Headaches (and Solutions)
An anonymous reader writes "The Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman shares his top tech annoyances. Hyneman runs down the little things that bug him about everything from tools (exotic chargers) to cars (useless features). He also notes that there's a lot of room for improvement on PC desktops: 'In addition to being buggy ... extra features tend to bog down your system by demanding more processing power and memory. Computer-makers: Don't load up operating systems with features and then make us sweat to figure out how to get rid of the fat ... There's another solution available to consumers: Switch to a Linux-based OS such as Ubuntu. Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills.'"
Ubuntu is horrible.
I installed it earlier this week. It had been a few years since I rebuilt my Win2000 machine (my primary box), and I decided to give Linux another try (after a miserable time with Storm about ten years ago.)
Have fun if you want to install a video card that's not "on the list". The response I got on the various boards was "you should buy a better video card. 1024 in 2d should be enough. lol" It's a friggin' Radeon (albeit a few years old) not a Voodoo card. (All of which happen to be supported for some reason.)
Really awesome, guys. Really awesome. And yes, I tried installing the proprietary ATI drivers, tried Envy, but it just doesn't work. Even better, if you pick an invalid resolution, it tests FINE, then just blanks out your display when you click "ok".
It seems like every time the kernel updates, the drivers fail. My guess is that there's no stable API and everyone who hates the old function names just renames them (or they tie the names into the kernel version). Egads, that's WAY WORSE than ANYTHING Microsoft has EVER done. Period. (Including ME and BOB.)
That's just the "dustiest table in Pompeii". I've had nothing but problems with it.
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If you have to abort the install - you generally have a brick. I know damm well what it means. Not to mention the fact the average home user probably doesnt't have the install disks for his OS.