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Oh, but I *so* wanted Ubuntu!
Mar. 17th, 2009 04:45 pmOkay, you know what? I give up!
I wanted Ubuntu to speed up my old laptop that's bogged down with way too much crap and heavy system tasks from Windows. But now? I give up.
It's not the system, as such. I actually like the look and feel of it. It's easy to use, easy to find your way around. Nothing's hidden beneath two layers of obscure references. Nice work, Linux!
It's not that, no. It's the damned network setup. Or... lack of same. It won't recognize my WLAN out of the box, which, okay, I suppose there are very good reasons for - but it won't recognize my ethernet, either. Which makes it something of a problem that, in order to fix these two problems, it needs an internet connection. I mean, WTF?!?
How about... oh, gee, I dunno, at least giving us an option to download the file we need to fix the ETHERNET-connection to a different computer and then transfer using another USB-drive? Or, better still, give me an option to download the file I need to fix my WLAN-connection!
*deep breath*
In totally unrelated news, I'm reading a rather depressing book about women's equality, which totally confirms my impression that women are expected to act a certain way, behave a certain way, want certain things - none of which are true for me!
The depressing thing? Is that this book was written just last year!
*sighs*
I wanted Ubuntu to speed up my old laptop that's bogged down with way too much crap and heavy system tasks from Windows. But now? I give up.
It's not the system, as such. I actually like the look and feel of it. It's easy to use, easy to find your way around. Nothing's hidden beneath two layers of obscure references. Nice work, Linux!
It's not that, no. It's the damned network setup. Or... lack of same. It won't recognize my WLAN out of the box, which, okay, I suppose there are very good reasons for - but it won't recognize my ethernet, either. Which makes it something of a problem that, in order to fix these two problems, it needs an internet connection. I mean, WTF?!?
How about... oh, gee, I dunno, at least giving us an option to download the file we need to fix the ETHERNET-connection to a different computer and then transfer using another USB-drive? Or, better still, give me an option to download the file I need to fix my WLAN-connection!
*deep breath*
In totally unrelated news, I'm reading a rather depressing book about women's equality, which totally confirms my impression that women are expected to act a certain way, behave a certain way, want certain things - none of which are true for me!
The depressing thing? Is that this book was written just last year!
*sighs*
