ethismos
January 21st, 2017, 01:00 PM
I keep wondering why it is so damn hard.
I had a PC running ubuntu for 5 years at university. Then run it for 2 more years at home, now i get at a new place and have to install again. I do not get why it is so damn harder everytime.
What happened this time:
1) 2 Keyboards and 2 mice all not working. 10 reboots and 50 plug-ins at different usb ports later for no apparent reason a mouse works, i have to do the whole process with on screen keyboard.
2) One partition could not be formated, spend quite some time at another pc, found solution (formatting it from live cd before installation because for some reason that formatting is better...).
3) 80% of installation finished, grub error, find solutions at another pc, hours later with nothing working (including formats, new installation disk, different partitioning etc) i get lucky again with a combination of boot at one disk, root at another, home with swap at a third one and install finishes. SImply erasing any of the 3 disks and installing there got me errors.
4) I get into ubuntu the next day, one hard disk (my SSD ofc) is not recognised, cant find a working solution.
5) My mouse still works, my keyboard doesn't, try everything while typing with ON SCREEN keyboard, still not working.
6) Ethernet recognised, not working, giving me error messages every 30 seconds. Can't get drivers or anything, i try to fix it (disable ipv6, do many commands with terminal that i half understand to disable random stuff at network manager, reset network and pc 50 times, try every solution from 12.04 version and onward) nothing happens.
7) My SSD is now invisible at BIOS. No one knows why.
8) I use CD for an internet solution i find, i reboot with terminal, i get a "remove cd and press enter", stuck because i have no keyboard...
9) Took me 30 minutes to install my old windows 7, everything works (with 15 minutes for drivers update).
First time i dont have ubuntu at my PC in 7+ years.
I have no idea how someone relatively new could go through that process (which included a second fully working pc) and even consider using ubuntu again. I am not an expert but i have used ubuntu a lot, i programmed with ubuntu, i played games with ubuntu, i had fun altering my UI at ubuntu, i did my university work with ubuntu but every time i have to go through installation i get frustrated and can't imagine how someone with no experience or help can get through this error process.
Deeply dissapointed.
I had a PC running ubuntu for 5 years at university. Then run it for 2 more years at home, now i get at a new place and have to install again. I do not get why it is so damn harder everytime.
What happened this time:
1) 2 Keyboards and 2 mice all not working. 10 reboots and 50 plug-ins at different usb ports later for no apparent reason a mouse works, i have to do the whole process with on screen keyboard.
2) One partition could not be formated, spend quite some time at another pc, found solution (formatting it from live cd before installation because for some reason that formatting is better...).
3) 80% of installation finished, grub error, find solutions at another pc, hours later with nothing working (including formats, new installation disk, different partitioning etc) i get lucky again with a combination of boot at one disk, root at another, home with swap at a third one and install finishes. SImply erasing any of the 3 disks and installing there got me errors.
4) I get into ubuntu the next day, one hard disk (my SSD ofc) is not recognised, cant find a working solution.
5) My mouse still works, my keyboard doesn't, try everything while typing with ON SCREEN keyboard, still not working.
6) Ethernet recognised, not working, giving me error messages every 30 seconds. Can't get drivers or anything, i try to fix it (disable ipv6, do many commands with terminal that i half understand to disable random stuff at network manager, reset network and pc 50 times, try every solution from 12.04 version and onward) nothing happens.
7) My SSD is now invisible at BIOS. No one knows why.
8) I use CD for an internet solution i find, i reboot with terminal, i get a "remove cd and press enter", stuck because i have no keyboard...
9) Took me 30 minutes to install my old windows 7, everything works (with 15 minutes for drivers update).
First time i dont have ubuntu at my PC in 7+ years.
I have no idea how someone relatively new could go through that process (which included a second fully working pc) and even consider using ubuntu again. I am not an expert but i have used ubuntu a lot, i programmed with ubuntu, i played games with ubuntu, i had fun altering my UI at ubuntu, i did my university work with ubuntu but every time i have to go through installation i get frustrated and can't imagine how someone with no experience or help can get through this error process.
Deeply dissapointed.