nk09
April 27th, 2012, 04:29 PM
Hello all.
After a long time of openSuSE usage, I decided to try Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit), mainly because of the hype it got. It was a mistake...
The installer started fine, the partitioning gone fine, but then, the installer started to "retrieve packages". It took 3 hours (!). Just for comparison, downloading the Ubuntu CD image itself took 25 minutes. After I thought it was over, it started to download language packs. The estimated download time changed in every second (seemingly randomly from about 12 seconds to 18 minutes). The progress bar didn't move at all. After about 40 minutes, I had enough, and pulled the ethernet cable. Then the installer locked up completely.
Just out of curiosity: why is the user forced to download all the language packs, even if there is an option at the very begining of the installation to select language? Why don't just use/download the pack for the selected language?
Also, why we need to download anything from the repository, besides security updates (they took only about half a minute)?
Okay. So, I started to installer again, configured everything, then left the installer run for the night. Next day, the installation was ready, and the system booted as it supposed to. The interface itself looked very good, and appeared to be fast - until I opened the "home screen", or whatever it called (the button with the Ubuntu logo). After this, Unity started to lag, almost causing the system to freeze. After a struggle to close the home screen, I thought I'll install the ATI drivers, which will hopefully solve the lag.
So, I opened the restricted drivers window, and noticed that there are two ATI drivers: the regular one, and a "post release update". I've tried to download the later. It was impossible, the download started, then after a second, the installer didn't respond. I let it run for about half an hour, but nothing changed. I forced the system to reboot, then installed the other ATI driver. The installation went smooth this time, I restarted the system to start the new driver. And now, everything became laggy. Even dragging windows and icons around.
This was the point where I gave up, and reinstalled openSuSE. I don't know what's going on with Ubuntu, but the so called Ubuntu Experience looks and feels very similiar to the Windows Vista experience back then...
Last time I tried Ubuntu (about 4 years ago), it was a neat, fast, easily configurable and user friendly system. Now it became a nightmare.
Before you accuse me for having a crappy machine: first, openSuSE works flawlessly, second, the system is powered by a triple-core AMD Phenom II CPU, a Mobility Radeon HD 4200 GPU, and has 4 GB of RAM.
Sorry for being a bit harsh, but I got really fed up. Anyway, I would still like to get familiar with Ubuntu, so any advices about the problems above would be very much welcome.
After a long time of openSuSE usage, I decided to try Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit), mainly because of the hype it got. It was a mistake...
The installer started fine, the partitioning gone fine, but then, the installer started to "retrieve packages". It took 3 hours (!). Just for comparison, downloading the Ubuntu CD image itself took 25 minutes. After I thought it was over, it started to download language packs. The estimated download time changed in every second (seemingly randomly from about 12 seconds to 18 minutes). The progress bar didn't move at all. After about 40 minutes, I had enough, and pulled the ethernet cable. Then the installer locked up completely.
Just out of curiosity: why is the user forced to download all the language packs, even if there is an option at the very begining of the installation to select language? Why don't just use/download the pack for the selected language?
Also, why we need to download anything from the repository, besides security updates (they took only about half a minute)?
Okay. So, I started to installer again, configured everything, then left the installer run for the night. Next day, the installation was ready, and the system booted as it supposed to. The interface itself looked very good, and appeared to be fast - until I opened the "home screen", or whatever it called (the button with the Ubuntu logo). After this, Unity started to lag, almost causing the system to freeze. After a struggle to close the home screen, I thought I'll install the ATI drivers, which will hopefully solve the lag.
So, I opened the restricted drivers window, and noticed that there are two ATI drivers: the regular one, and a "post release update". I've tried to download the later. It was impossible, the download started, then after a second, the installer didn't respond. I let it run for about half an hour, but nothing changed. I forced the system to reboot, then installed the other ATI driver. The installation went smooth this time, I restarted the system to start the new driver. And now, everything became laggy. Even dragging windows and icons around.
This was the point where I gave up, and reinstalled openSuSE. I don't know what's going on with Ubuntu, but the so called Ubuntu Experience looks and feels very similiar to the Windows Vista experience back then...
Last time I tried Ubuntu (about 4 years ago), it was a neat, fast, easily configurable and user friendly system. Now it became a nightmare.
Before you accuse me for having a crappy machine: first, openSuSE works flawlessly, second, the system is powered by a triple-core AMD Phenom II CPU, a Mobility Radeon HD 4200 GPU, and has 4 GB of RAM.
Sorry for being a bit harsh, but I got really fed up. Anyway, I would still like to get familiar with Ubuntu, so any advices about the problems above would be very much welcome.