I've been building my own PCs since 2000. I'm due to do that again this year. I get start with the best Intel chip but I draw the line at $1000 video cards or any sound cards. I've installed every MS OS from ME, every Ubuntu since 10.04 and Mint Mate 13. I've encountered all kinds of issues from bent processor pins, to SCSI issues when they first came out to things improperly plugged in from case to MB (by a retailer) to OS issues (ME was the worst) I loved Amiga but I had to go into the install disc and make some changes to the OS for it to install properly. I also had to do some re-writing on my SCSI install floppy just to get the HDD to boot up so that I had something to install on. I had a Voodoo3000 installed but the guy didn't include a fan, big problems for days there. An MS OS disabled all my DVD burners because I installed Nero. I once had a little cheap HDD given to me. 5oo MB. It had all kinds of software on a separate partition. One them- an famous anti virus actually had a virus on it. So every time I installed and then installed the anti virus I got a virus that disabled my system. Took me a while to figure that out.
I could go on but I love building PCs and installing the latest OSs on them. Lately the restaurant cash register touch screen style interface has left me cold but not so much as the loss of functionality that I've enjoyed over the last 13 years, coupled with the frustrating responses that imply these MacDonald's cash register style OSs are the future when actually they come from the past and loss of functionality is moving backwards not forwards.
Yet I persevere. Lately I'm taken to bitching on-line.
I moved to Ubuntu because it's free, it works as welll as anything out there and it's much easier to get in the places that I work. Did I mention that on Ubuntu 13 my claendar is in the native language and style of the country I now reside? So is SM player. They are useless to me.
A black screen with a flashing curser? I had a purple screen once. Spent the weekend re-installing a couple times, searching the net. Then I found that because I had my HDMI plugged into my TV set but I was watching TV while I worked so I didn't know that Ubuntu 10.10 had chosen my TV as the default screen. That's where the log-in was while my secondary PC screen was just purple waiting for me to log in before it came to life.
My PC kept rebooting. The problem? A bad wall outlet. The plug was kinda loose I guess so plugging my system into another outlet solved the proble. Fortunately the house I was living in didn't burn down. Another lost weekend.
Booting with a USB failed and failed until I found that I have to check some box to discard extra files or the USB install wouldn't function properly. That was a black screen with a flshing curser. Startup disc creator has had this issue for year or more. Why doesn't someone fix it?
This is a fun hobby but sometimes I have to work and that's when I get really po'd if something breaks or an upgrade kills off funtionality in the name of trendiness, mindless change for change sake or whatever.
This board is pretty good at helping except when it comes to separate X screens. I take back the italicized comment. I am now following advice from another poster to fix this.
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Originally Posted by mastablasta
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