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Downloaded 15.04 today, put it on a USB drive, and tried to use the live version on both my laptop and desktop. It failed to boot to the desktop (showed Ubuntu
by beeboop 11y ago
Downloaded 15.04 today, put it on a USB drive, and tried to use the live version on both my laptop and desktop. It failed to boot to the desktop (showed Ubuntu loading screen though) on both with cryptic error messages and 30 minutes of Googling resulted in nothing that was helpful. I guess I'll do my ritual of trying and giving up again in another couple years. This is probably the 5th time I've tried installing Ubuntu. This is actually the worst time of the 5, in other instances I usually at least got it to the desktop but then ran into bugs that prevented decent usability and was never able to fix them after many many hours of trying to do so.
- aidenn0 11y agoI've been a Linux user for 15 years and only once got Ubuntu working in 3 tries (and I had to manually enter a modeline to my xorg config to do so!). Judging by how many people I know who run Ubuntu, I must be unlucky.
- edgyswingset 11y agoThis has nearly always been my experience with a Linux distro. My most recent experience with Ubuntu was a gigantic mouse pointer and the whole GUI zoomed in to what looked like 1000% or something. Even as a technical person, I really do appreciate it when my home computing devices don't fail the first time I try to use them.
- unknownknowns 11y agoCompletely agreed. And then when you do get it installed, you end up having random issues here and there (in my experience with using different distros of Linux on the desktop). For me, I just want an OS that works so that I can do work and not have to fiddle with debugging a weird issue happening or setting up things that should just be working out of the box. I'll stick with Windows 10 and OS X which both satisfy the above :-)
- barbs 11y agoThis surprises me, I've never had any issues with booting and installing Ubuntu or variants thereof.