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Strangely enough, it appears to have been a usb wifi adapter. I thought I'd had everything screened or at least run without the peripherals, but confoundedly this wasn't the case until now. ;-)
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As I mentioned in the OP, the problem occured in Windows and in Ubuntu in vesa (all modules that spin up the card, including neuveau, are blacklisted and the PC boots in 1024x768 vga mode 792)...

Haha, no problem; I like quick thinking! :)

The inside of the system is dusty. I blew on it a bit (nearly choked, haha) -- how extensively do you mean? I've never seen a system produce such...

Since I removed the nouveau modules entirely and booted via framebuffer vesa via kernel string, KMS or modesetting couldn't possibly be occurring through the GPU, could they? The GPU was reportedly...

Computer crashes randomly with multicolored screen (usually a garbled, finely tiled mess of repeating pixels that were on the screen before the crash). Happens regardless of OS (that means Windows...

The Unity interface is garnering frustrated users? Aww.

Well I guess that's a problem with Ubuntu in general (or Linux in general?). It's not that everything moves too fast, it's that everything...

In the modern world, females are equal to males.

If female = male, female is a subset of human, male is a subset of human, and linux usershare = {95% human, 5% other},... then it follows,...

One reason hardware support might be lacking is Linux's kernel space driver framework. If release cycles slowed down enough to allow manufacturers to make decent proprietary drivers for the major...

I think by "bundle", the OP simply means the equivalent of a "batch" file in Linux (an .sh bash shell script using POSIX environment syntax blablabla), specifically one that runs some commands that...

Unfortunately, that's not so easy, and many ppas are ill-maintained and can be dangerous. Not to mention they don't receive security updates if the developer simply happens to retire his ppa without...

Massive update and overhaul of the first post!
Hopefully this decisively addresses any misunderstandings that might yet exist, and as always, I'm happy to elaborate.


I'm not sure I follow....

I think I'm with uRock, unsubscribbing[/QUOTE]

This is a very disrespectful and incorrect interpretation of essentially everything I've said up to this point. I've bent over backwards to address...

Both to varying degrees, although on an HP system Arch did actually have less issues than an Ubuntu upgrade for me, but my experience is too limited to know either way. In any case, the merits of a...

I have explained to you countless times why there are only a handful here doing so. Please read my post where I addressed the topic of my extensive experience with dozens of newbies and mainstream...

This isn't really about what you or I might like in terms of operating systems. I love Ubuntu a tremendous amount more than I like Windows, for one thing. This isn't even a matter of opinion. If you...

No. These distros are popular because they are easy to use and only break the system once every 6 months rather than potentially once a day with the current flawed "rolling system" model. I don't...

Thanks for the input, but I wish you'd read even a few paragraphs of the first post.

What forces people to upgrade their system (besides an 18 month "support" period) is out-of-date user software...

Well said on all counts!

As for the ppa point, since many ppa's aren't maintained by Ubuntu itself, there are some glitches in many of them -- Firefox's ppa doesn't install with proper KDE...

I am pleased that you, especially as a member of the ubuntuforums staff, are able to debug your system fairly easily, and I am also pleasantly struck by your good luck. You might have one of those...

I applaud you for being skilled, dedicated, and/or lucky enough to get a version working on all of your machines. I've managed to do something similar with 9.04 when it was supported. But the point...

Yes, they're upstream. In the kernel. And can be supplied as modules. I beg you to check out the linux-backports-modules-wireless/alsa/etc packages for a demonstration that a solid base can in fact...

Thanks for contributing! Gold star, sir; and may that gold be forged from that which you've so delightfully shared with us today.

It's flawed and failed insofar as the stated main goal of Ubuntu -- to be an accessible and usable OS (which implies being maintainable) by everyday people.

-A fork is not a flawed spoon because...

Yes it is; you are indeed correct. This is the other hurdle Ubuntu has to circumvent to reach the majority of "human beings" it wants to reach. Most forays into the linux world are brief due to this...

From a practical standpoint, I want an OS that costs no money, provides stability and functionality, and is relatively easy to to get running.

Neither I nor the majority of users Ubuntu cares to...