who designed this forum?

[nestor5]

I made an earlier post about being dissatisfied and and dissappointed with ubuntu. Now I am starting to feel the same way about this site! For example, when one logs in, would it not be simple commonsense to be shown your previous posts, and to view any replies that may have been received? Instead, I am given a jumbled unreadable list of members who are logged on to this forum, and I see no way of accessing my own threads! When this is added to the frustrations that ubuntu itself is giving me, it makes me pine for Windows! Microsoft, as criticised as it is, produces user friendly products and when you visit their site, the navigation options make sense. I will be downloading pclinuxos now, and if all goes well, I hope I will have an acceptable Windows alternative within the next few hours.

[mali2297]

I see no way of accessing my own threads!

User CP -> Subscribed Threads

[taurus]

There is a Search --> Find All Your Threads function on top so what's the beef about not finding your posts?

[overdrank]

I made an earlier post about being dissatisfied and and dissappointed with ubuntu. Now I am starting to feel the same way about this site! For example, when one logs in, would it not be simple commonsense to be shown your previous posts, and to view any replies that may have been received? Instead, I am given a jumbled unreadable list of members who are logged on to this forum, and I see no way of accessing my own threads! When this is added to the frustrations that ubuntu itself is giving me, it makes me pine for Windows! Microsoft, as criticised as it is, produces user friendly products and when you visit their site, the navigation options make sense. I will be downloading pclinuxos now, and if all goes well, I hope I will have an acceptable Windows alternative within the next few hours.

HI and it sounds like ubuntu is not for you. good luck with pclinux. :KS

[GavinZac]

I made an earlier post about being dissatisfied and and dissappointed with ubuntu. Now I am starting to feel the same way about this site! For example, when one logs in, would it not be simple commonsense to be shown your previous posts, and to view any replies that may have been received? Instead, I am given a jumbled unreadable list of members who are logged on to this forum, and I see no way of accessing my own threads! When this is added to the frustrations that ubuntu itself is giving me, it makes me pine for Windows! Microsoft, as criticised as it is, produces user friendly products and when you visit their site, the navigation options make sense. I will be downloading pclinuxos now, and if all goes well, I hope I will have an acceptable Windows alternative within the next few hours.

The forum is pretty much a standard vBulletin forum (the most common/popular commerical forum on the net) with a few extra features: the best ones being the search->my threads/my posts links, and the listed similar threads when starting a new thread.

If you don't recognise a vBulletin forum, I'm guessing this is your first time participating in a community of any sort on the net. Please note; this forum is populated mostly by users, and is not an official document of Canonical or Ubuntu, in the way that a MS help document would be.

[davidc502]

I kinda keep the idea, in the back of my head, that Linux is free as well as this website. It means though I might not be totally satisfied with this site or the OS I downloaded, if I want it to change I'll have to contribute to the community. After all, that's what Linux is all about.

[LaRoza]

You can subscribe to thread/pages/the forum. You can get RSS feeds and email notifications if you want.

If you want to find your threads, click "Search->Find all your posts" or threads.

You might like PCLinuxOS, good luck!

[frank002]

Hey Nestor, there is a search feature here that anyone with common sense can figure out. You look up yor previous posts or threads. Can't get much simpler than that. Good luck running defrag, scandisk, antivirus, antispyware every week.

[gn2]

Good luck running defrag, scandisk, antivirus, antispyware every week.

On PCLinuxOS?

[GavinZac]

On PCLinuxOS?

i knew they made it as familiar as possible but that may be too much :lolflag:

[LaRoza]

On PCLinuxOS?

Quite true. The poster must have not read that part...

[RobotoWorks]

I made an earlier post about being dissatisfied and and dissappointed with ubuntu. Now I am starting to feel the same way about this site! For example, when one logs in, would it not be simple commonsense to be shown your previous posts, and to view any replies that may have been received? Instead, I am given a jumbled unreadable list of members who are logged on to this forum, and I see no way of accessing my own threads! When this is added to the frustrations that ubuntu itself is giving me, it makes me pine for Windows! Microsoft, as criticised as it is, produces user friendly products and when you visit their site, the navigation options make sense. I will be downloading pclinuxos now, and if all goes well, I hope I will have an acceptable Windows alternative within the next few hours.

Will you just stop complaining? Okay look Linux/Ubuntu just may not be for you, go back to paying Ol' Gates his money, and be satisfied. Do you think that we care? This is a successful forum, with millions of posts and its all about Ubuntu the most successfull Linux out there! If you want to wither your time away complaining about how you hate this and that, its your choice, but just to tell you know one cares and it just wont change anything.
JUst get Linux off you damn computer, and stop coming here!!!

[GavinZac]

Will you just stop complaining? Okay look Linux/Ubuntu just may not be for you, go back to paying Ol' Gates his money, and be satisfied. Do you think that we care? This is a successful forum, with millions of posts and its all about Ubuntu the most successfull Linux out there! If you want to wither your time away complaining about how you hate this and that, its your choice, but just to tell you know one cares and it just wont change anything.
JUst get Linux off you damn computer, and stop coming here!!!
I dont think that helps anyone at all.

If you dont like the thread, ignore it. If you dont like the poster, you can even choose to automatically ignore them too. vBulletin is great for that ;)

[asmiller-ke6seh]

[looks to the left]

[looks to the right]

"Is he gone, yet?"

:lolflag:


But, seriously: I have found that one gets more help if one comes in here with a positive attitude. This is a Community of people, and not a commercial, paid support site.

Ubuntu ... and Linux ... is not for everyone. After all, Linux is Not Windows. Right?

[LaRoza]

Ubuntu ... and Linux ... is not for everyone. After all, Linux is Not Windows. Right?

You must use COBOL, it is Linux != Windows

:-)

[asmiller-ke6seh]

You must use COBOL, it is Linux != Windows

:-)

I haven't used COBOL in over 30 years. I even forgot most of the syntax.

[RobotoWorks]

If COBOL=WINDOWS and Windows has only been around for about 16 years, theres no ways its been 30 years since you last used it.

[LaRoza]

If COBOL=WINDOWS and Windows has only been around for about 16 years, theres no ways its been 30 years since you last used it.

It was a reference to the COBOL verbosity, and the fact that "Windows != Linux" is used very often. It has nothing to do with Windows, just the way the message was written.

[GavinZac]

If COBOL=WINDOWS and Windows has only been around for about 16 years, theres no ways its been 30 years since you last used it.

COBOL == COBOL
COBOL != Windows

[Pumalite]

Hoy vey!

[crjackson]

I made an earlier post about being dissatisfied and and dissappointed with ubuntu
I understand your disappointment and frustration. It's most likely due to lack of experience and knowledge with regards to Linux. I had lots of frustration myself in the start, there is a learning curve. Once you learn a few things about your new OS and customize it to your liking, you start feeling kind of silly. You will read the simple questions of others and marvel at the simplicity of the answer. You will wonder, "how could someone NOT know how to do that!" Then you will remember how you struggled and understand. If you are a kind person, then you will serve up some help to ease the growing pangs. Give the community another try. Layout your questions in an intelligent manner and ask away.[/quote]

Now I am starting to feel the same way about this site! For example, when one logs in, would it not be simple commonsense to be shown your previous posts, and to view any replies that may have been received?
No, not really. Many of the users here have THOUSANDS of posts. That would be the last thing they would want. As others have pointed out, all you have to do is click the search button near the top right and look at the pull down menu. What you are looking for is already there.

When this is added to the frustrations that ubuntu itself is giving me, it makes me pine for Windows!
Linux is all about choice. No one is forcing you to switch from Windows. I use both. If you don't want to move from Windows to Linux, then don't. No one here is offended by that. It's your choice.

Microsoft, as criticised as it is, produces user friendly products and when you visit their site, the navigation options make sense.
Once again, it's seems you are frustrated by your lack of knowledge. It's all too simple when you take the time to learn your way around. It's lke moving to a new city and getting angry because all the street names and store locations are different from the city you are moving from.

I will be downloading pclinuxos now, and if all goes well, I hope I will have an acceptable Windows alternative within the next few hours.
Perhaps you will like this distro better

[asmiller-ke6seh]

If COBOL=WINDOWS and Windows has only been around for about 16 years, theres no ways its been 30 years since you last used it.

Kids! No appreciation for history. :lolflag:

[popch]

You must use COBOL, it is Linux != Windows

:-)

the 'LINUX is not WINDOWS' syntax would be consistent with a query in MS Access, I believe. Otherwise, Access is not all that similar to COBOL.

[LaRoza]

the 'LINUX is not WINDOWS' syntax would be consistent with a query in MS Access, I believe. Otherwise, Access is not all that similar to COBOL.

It was just a reference to the verbosity of the statement. It is also similar to SQL and a few other languages.

[Frak]

I made an earlier post about being dissatisfied and and dissappointed with ubuntu. Now I am starting to feel the same way about this site! For example, when one logs in, would it not be simple commonsense to be shown your previous posts, and to view any replies that may have been received? Instead, I am given a jumbled unreadable list of members who are logged on to this forum, and I see no way of accessing my own threads! When this is added to the frustrations that ubuntu itself is giving me, it makes me pine for Windows! Microsoft, as criticised as it is, produces user friendly products and when you visit their site, the navigation options make sense. I will be downloading pclinuxos now, and if all goes well, I hope I will have an acceptable Windows alternative within the next few hours.
Take it up with vBulletin, and the couple hundred thousand or so clients that have said license, and the couple hundred million users who use the board.

[PriceChild]

I have it set so that I am automatically subscribed to every thread that I have posted in.

I then set my homepage to ubuntuforums.org/usercp.php

Done.