Well I did and it had problems with my wireless Logitech mouse lx70 it wouldnt let my keyboard to work until i hooked up my other mouse... before that it read the mouse as a laptop battery and the mouse skipped around the screen but atleast the keyboard worked... before this problems with grub just dieing... grub ftw but if you mess it up you must be pretty dim as it is much easier than lilo... problems not seeing hardware X (insert x simile as there are too many to count) Ubuntu seems to me a novelty at best... Back to RPM/TGZ based distros as it is what I know. I hate the what works for me must be God's word as the works for me is inherently diluted as working period. Other distros have had no such problems from Gentoo to Slackware to Mandriva to PcLinux OS... I don't seriously get why Ubuntu gets so much acclaim as it has not worked not only for me but many people I know. That ranks up near 50 or so a small but serious chunk of change, allow me to explain before calling me a troll. It is a small LUG. One is a Debian guru and has contributed alot of code even kernel based, under him he has his following of 9 peeps. One is a Slackware guru and has his 9 followers. One is a Gentoo guru and he has his 9 faithful followers. One is a PcLinuxOS guru and his 9. And I the lowly, ahem, dare I say it; Mandriva guru with my 9 faithful followers. All of us have differing opinions in our choice of OS. We also have alot in common and come away from Windows to one of these distros as Christians come away from Cathalosism to Christianity. Ubuntu is another we all have in common all 50 of us have had quirks in our choice of os but were willing to deal with problem X as it isn't as detrimental as grub dieing on us or a critical piece of hardware not working. We seem to have a 3 stike rule on distros and Ubuntu struck out and we will never look at again most certainly. Not for religious reasons. We were looking for a central distro to push to make pushing Linux easier. As we all have family and friends who look up to us as gods of the computer world and that number grows from 50 to 250+ really quickly which spread by word of mouth has our little community quite the powerful one. I don't think Microsoft actually cares if Linux overpowers it in the os market. Yes Windows is a cash cow and they bit the bullet with DRM garbage. If there are billions of developers making Linux the better choice this is less time MS has to spend on an os and relieve the headache that is they have to please everyone. To get a better market with Office/Direct X. If they market Direct X and sell it as licensed to people who want to game on Linux could be a really good thing. I dont hate MS or most of the products they offer. Just my bias is against Windows. I would buy Office 2009 Direct X 11 and Halo 4 if it became available for Linux as all 3 products would be at the top of the line. I love all three and if Microsoft were foresighted and hindsighted enough to see this and make friends with certain distros and cross license them it might be a good thing... Oh wait they may already be doing this. They know they cant verily sue Linux distributers as you can not get blood from a stone. Note SCO. But instead may verily see a much larger market in the making without doing the work themselves could return much more profit than if they refused the change. Heck may even make them more money if they sell out on Windows and let it kill itself than to institute a better technology and do more work than they have to. Technology seems to be moving away from closed source expensive key technologies to cheaper better alternatives as is the way of technology in general. Dont believe me look at the television.
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Well I did and it had problems with my wireless Logitech mouse lx70 it wouldnt let my keyboard to work until i hooked up my other mouse... before that it read the mouse as a laptop battery and the mouse skipped around the screen but atleast the keyboard worked... before this problems with grub just dieing... grub ftw but if you mess it up you must be pretty dim as it is much easier than lilo... problems not seeing hardware X (insert x simile as there are too many to count) Ubuntu seems to me a novelty at best... Back to RPM/TGZ based distros as it is what I know. I hate the what works for me must be God's word as the works for me is inherently diluted as working period. Other distros have had no such problems from Gentoo to Slackware to Mandriva to PcLinux OS... I don't seriously get why Ubuntu gets so much acclaim as it has not worked not only for me but many people I know. That ranks up near 50 or so a small but serious chunk of change, allow me to explain before calling me a troll. It is a small LUG. One is a Debian guru and has contributed alot of code even kernel based, under him he has his following of 9 peeps. One is a Slackware guru and has his 9 followers. One is a Gentoo guru and he has his 9 faithful followers. One is a PcLinuxOS guru and his 9. And I the lowly, ahem, dare I say it; Mandriva guru with my 9 faithful followers. All of us have differing opinions in our choice of OS. We also have alot in common and come away from Windows to one of these distros as Christians come away from Cathalosism to Christianity. Ubuntu is another we all have in common all 50 of us have had quirks in our choice of os but were willing to deal with problem X as it isn't as detrimental as grub dieing on us or a critical piece of hardware not working. We seem to have a 3 stike rule on distros and Ubuntu struck out and we will never look at again most certainly. Not for religious reasons. We were looking for a central distro to push to make pushing Linux easier. As we all have family and friends who look up to us as gods of the computer world and that number grows from 50 to 250+ really quickly which spread by word of mouth has our little community quite the powerful one. I don't think Microsoft actually cares if Linux overpowers it in the os market. Yes Windows is a cash cow and they bit the bullet with DRM garbage. If there are billions of developers making Linux the better choice this is less time MS has to spend on an os and relieve the headache that is they have to please everyone. To get a better market with Office/Direct X. If they market Direct X and sell it as licensed to people who want to game on Linux could be a really good thing. I dont hate MS or most of the products they offer. Just my bias is against Windows. I would buy Office 2009 Direct X 11 and Halo 4 if it became available for Linux as all 3 products would be at the top of the line. I love all three and if Microsoft were foresighted and hindsighted enough to see this and make friends with certain distros and cross license them it might be a good thing... Oh wait they may already be doing this. They know they cant verily sue Linux distributers as you can not get blood from a stone. Note SCO. But instead may verily see a much larger market in the making without doing the work themselves could return much more profit than if they refused the change. Heck may even make them more money if they sell out on Windows and let it kill itself than to institute a better technology and do more work than they have to. Technology seems to be moving away from closed source expensive key technologies to cheaper better alternatives as is the way of technology in general. Dont believe me look at the television. -- I did it I finally fixed Windows all I had to do was turn the computer upside down!