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Help!! Fellow users, I'd like to ask your advice: Should I just give up on Hardy Heron and reinstall Gibbon? http://ubuntuforums.org/images/smilies/confused.gif
- Skype won't install: dependency issues, and the needed elements are not available
- Amarok won't install -- similar reasons (yes, Rhythmbox is nice but last I tried, it kept crashing once I hooked it up with all my 2000 music files)
- auto-install doesn't work any more for programs downloaded from websites: I've downloaded some programs, and one I figured out how to install on the command line but the others I have no clue what to do with except extracting all their files onto the desktop
- media files: sound quality is now horrible, with crackling and skipping on ogg files and mp3s, and one song kept trying to play in several places simultaneously (using VLC media player) -- videos online such as on YouTube keep jumping constantly (sound and picture) with the processor stuck at 100% -- I thought I installed all the Gstreamer codecs but Totem still can't play anything but ogg files.
- DVDs won't play any more -- neither on Totem nor on VLC Media Player
- improvements I was desperately hoping for are still not there: all print jobs to my LaserJet printer still add too much space between lines of text, regardless of which driver or settings I choose -- the Stopwatch program still can't make a notification sound, the GnuWash program I just tried in its place just keeps freezing up (and I can't figure out how to install the two other timers I've downloaded) -- my GigaWare headset still doesn't work at all with Ubuntu (earlier it worked only with Skype, and in that case was stuck at maximum volume)
The only improvements I see with the Heron: Wireless networking is easier and more intuitive (excellent); now I can slide the top and bottom bars off the screen to save space.
Sorry if I seem to be ranting / too verbose -- just very frustrated, and my wife is yelling in frustration that she can't watch her comedy shows on YouTube in the kitchen. Should I just reinstall Gibbon, or try just doing only word processing on that computer while I wait for updates, or go back to Windows? Reinstalling Gibbon means a whole lot of work, all over again. Waiting for updates hasn't worked for me in the past -- never saw any improvements in functionality until doing a full version upgrade. And I'm tired of the security headaches with Windows.
(I'm using a 2003 Sony Vaio laptop with 1MB RAM. I'm not quite a newbie any more but I'm still far short of being a programmer.)
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