![]() ![]() I fully expect 10.10.4 to actually destroy my hard drive at this point, as well as cause my monitor to spontaneously get 30-40 dead pixels. Hard reboot, everything is back to normal. It just sat there, black screen, with a little spinner, for about 2 hours. While "upgrading" to 10.10.3, my computer failed to reboot itself. A video forcing me to do a full reboot? Brought back memories of Windows ME. And this was while watching a video in the Steam client. I've had the same OS image since 10.5 (migrated and upgraded multiple time, obviously) and this was the second time my computer required a hard reboot. Anytime the computer woke up from sleep, I'd have to reset the wifi card so it could find my access point.Īfter 10.10.2 came out, I got my second-ever full computer lock-up. Ubuntu isn't really self contained in the way Windows is.įWIW, 10.10.0 for me was perfect. It's non-trivial and requires reading stuff on the Arch Linux Wiki. I'm loving me some Xmonad this week, but I had to root around in xkb and xmodmap and write a little haskell and read about out how to switch layout engines in Ubuntu. The tradeoff for going down the rabbit hole is that Linux is really powerful and flexible. ![]() My point is that Ubuntu is complex and when something doesn't run quite right, the right answer is usually hard to find and hard to recognize because it will be embedded in a culture of highly technical cross referencing. I shouldn't adjust ~/.bash_login in 14.10 despite what the internet says. 2007 instructions for changing the default boot will be based around Grub. A forum post from 2004 is not the best source of information in regards to dual monitors (and xrandr). The fact that Google's page rank favors older stable pages in search results is a factor. However, troubleshooting Linux issues, even on Ubuntu is a pain in the ass. ![]()
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