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Really? I gave Ubuntu a go as a daily driver a few years back. Getting WiFi working was a struggle, the constant offers to install apps in normal browsing flo

by Pxtl 11y ago

Really? I gave Ubuntu a go as a daily driver a few years back. Getting WiFi working was a struggle, the constant offers to install apps in normal browsing flow was irritating, sound died a few times, and over time my boot partition got filled up with old linux images and had to be cleaned with magical command-line incantations. That being said, it had less trouble with my network printer than Windows does. I get the appeal of Linux, but I did not have a grandma-friendly experience.

pekk 11y ago
I haven't had wifi problems with Ubuntu for literally a decade. When there is a problem, it isn't Ubuntu's fault as a distribution but rather has to do with hardware that has no Linux driver or needs a very recent kernel version. But using very recent kernels will also have its own problems. The only criticism I can relate to in this is the boot partition filling with old linux images, it really doesn't make sense that cleaning those out isn't done automatically by default.
- Pxtl 11y ago
  It was pretty simple to get the wifi working, but still - magical command-line incantations I'm copy/pasting from fora.
nnutter 11y ago
You can opt-out of the web app install prompts. Edit: http://askubuntu.com/questions/206710/how-do-i-disable-unity-webapps-notifications-from-popping-up-everytime-i-visit-a http://askubuntu.com/questions/206710/how-do-i-disable-unity...
blinkingled 11y ago
Reliable WiFi is hard stuff - but nowadays Linux has gotten to the point where it mostly just works. OTOH I still have WiFi issues on OS X to this day - just recently tried backing up some files over SMB and WiFi choked.
rdtsc 11y ago
I remember worse days, compiling drivers from source, audio never worked. Wifi support was only for an exclusive set of devices, video drivers were terrible. Because of that benchmark, what I have now works.
JupiterMoon 11y ago
> my boot partition got filled up with old linux images and had to be cleaned with magical command-line incantations ???
- Pxtl 11y ago
  http://tamaloa.github.io/2013/11/11/ubuntu-servers-most-annoying-boot-partition-full/ http://tamaloa.github.io/2013/11/11/ubuntu-servers-most-anno...

by Pxtl 11y ago

pekk 11y ago

I haven't had wifi problems with Ubuntu for literally a decade. When there is a problem, it isn't Ubuntu's fault as a distribution but rather has to do with hardware that has no Linux driver or needs a very recent kernel version. But using very recent kernels will also have its own problems. The only criticism I can relate to in this is the boot partition filling with old linux images, it really doesn't make sense that cleaning those out isn't done automatically by default.

Pxtl 11y ago
It was pretty simple to get the wifi working, but still - magical command-line incantations I'm copy/pasting from fora.

nnutter 11y ago

You can opt-out of the web app install prompts. Edit: http://askubuntu.com/questions/206710/how-do-i-disable-unity-webapps-notifications-from-popping-up-everytime-i-visit-a http://askubuntu.com/questions/206710/how-do-i-disable-unity...

blinkingled 11y ago

Reliable WiFi is hard stuff - but nowadays Linux has gotten to the point where it mostly just works. OTOH I still have WiFi issues on OS X to this day - just recently tried backing up some files over SMB and WiFi choked.

rdtsc 11y ago

I remember worse days, compiling drivers from source, audio never worked. Wifi support was only for an exclusive set of devices, video drivers were terrible. Because of that benchmark, what I have now works.

JupiterMoon 11y ago

> my boot partition got filled up with old linux images and had to be cleaned with magical command-line incantations ???

Pxtl 11y ago
http://tamaloa.github.io/2013/11/11/ubuntu-servers-most-annoying-boot-partition-full/ http://tamaloa.github.io/2013/11/11/ubuntu-servers-most-anno...