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I made the "switch" a few months ago to Ubuntu 9.04. It's not smooth at all. It regularly hangs (The current window fades gray). All I am doing is hacking djang
by djb_hackernews 17y ago
I made the "switch" a few months ago to Ubuntu 9.04. It's not smooth at all. It regularly hangs (The current window fades gray). All I am doing is hacking django and browsing the web. Flash doesn't work. That might be a Firefox issue. Flash does work in FF 3.5, which I installed, but it installed as a separate browser, not an upgrade.
Also, my volume is too low to listen to music or watch movies, which was a bummer because I just moved and don't have a way to do either of those things.
- 3pt14159 17y agoUpgrade to 9.10, it is much better for the web. I use 9.04 on my netbook and I get problems like that every now and then too, but my desktop is just fine.
- cdavid 17y agoAs far as I am concerned, ubuntu releases have gone downhill ever since 2006 or so. A lot of old issues which have been reported, and are easy to fix, have been hanging forever. But when I had to reluctantly install the 10.04 beta on my new netbook because it was the only way to get support for the crappy broadcom chipset, I was very pleasantly surprised. Everything works, including suspend to disk, sound, decent battery support (last as long as officially reported on windows).
- kellishaver 17y agoHere's how I ended up fixing my low volume level issues in 9.10: http://kellishaver.tumblr.com/post/447122874/alsa-in-ubuntu-9-10 http://kellishaver.tumblr.com/post/447122874/alsa-in-ubuntu-... And here's how I fixed Flash: http://kellishaver.tumblr.com/post/451068353/while-were-on-the-subject-of-fixing-things-in http://kellishaver.tumblr.com/post/451068353/while-were-on-t...
- djb_hackernews 17y agoWhere do I send the check?
- kellishaver 17y agoLOL glad I could help. :)