berniev
July 21st, 2011, 09:22 AM
I appear to not be alone in striking difficulty with install related tasks.
Recently I waited months before upgrading from 10 to 11, not wanting to be on the bleeding edge, and encountered a string of grub related problems.
Just bought a shiny new HP 6560b and figured it shouldn't be too hard to do a dual boot install. How wrong can one be? (the four partition problem).
My point is basically that I love Ubuntu but wonder how it's adoption is to be encouraged while it requires so much work to do simple things. I shudder to recommend it to anyone not reasonably technical and prepared to do significant leg work. Once it's installed it's great, but the amount of time spent Googling is annoying.
If I was knowledgeable enough I'd throw my hat into the ring to help, but alas this is not the case.
Am I out of line?
Recently I waited months before upgrading from 10 to 11, not wanting to be on the bleeding edge, and encountered a string of grub related problems.
Just bought a shiny new HP 6560b and figured it shouldn't be too hard to do a dual boot install. How wrong can one be? (the four partition problem).
My point is basically that I love Ubuntu but wonder how it's adoption is to be encouraged while it requires so much work to do simple things. I shudder to recommend it to anyone not reasonably technical and prepared to do significant leg work. Once it's installed it's great, but the amount of time spent Googling is annoying.
If I was knowledgeable enough I'd throw my hat into the ring to help, but alas this is not the case.
Am I out of line?