galvheim
July 25th, 2008, 11:20 PM
After using hardy on my box for a few weeks, it is moments before I throw this whole **** out my window-XP or just put a dynamite in it to get some weird satisfaction from see the whole **** blow to pieces, because it seems like I have deliberately installed a huge virus on my computer called Hardy Heron. No-one seems to care about all this, because I've really tried finding solutions to find answers to this. I would call this no more than a alpha-version at best, since so few things are really working when it comes to calling it a OS.
I did keep my HOME-partition intact from my previous GutsyGibbon install, but I'm not willing to throw all this away unless I get a sane explanation as to why I should wipe it off and do a pure install, if anyone suggest that this is where my problem may reside. If so, Ubuntu and the whole purpose of the Home folder is gone in my view...
In short my box consists of the following:
AMD 1.8 GHz Single Core
4 GB RAM in QUAD mode.
1.5 Terrabytes SATA2 HDs
Nvidia 8800 GTS.
Anyway, what I'm experiencing just after the first install was the unimaginable slow response I get in Hardy in almost all circumstances of usage. Compiz is turned completely off and its still lagging far behind my expected tempo of use. The thing I value most by OS'es are true responsiveness. Which mean that when I scroll, type, move windows, go through menus etc, this should happen as quickly as I can do it myself or my brain can follow it (this I can do in WinXP. Especially when there is really nothing else happening inside my computer that makes it busy. Like just now: I'm sitting two meters from my monitor, so I just wanted to scale up the fonts in FF, but this just took more than 10 seconds and my FF turned dark in the meantime.
This happens all the time and it's no reason whatsoever that this should occur with regards to my computer specs. I have installed latest Nvidia drivers, have done a clean re-install and really updated my distro on all repositories possible. But I will underline that this was my first impression from the start too, before any additions where added, so I have by no means f***ed up my system by installing third party **** that is regarded as risky. Like now, when I writing, I write faster than Hardy is able to show me this in realtime. So I just want to say. F**k THIS ****!!! I will resist go back to Gutsy, since I think its ******** from Ubuntu developers to give out such **** since they absolutely must have been aware of this before they released it.
It's just a sad story. Luckily I didn't wipe off XP yet, so I still have a somewhat responsive system, but then again it's windows.
I mean: on my calendar it says July 2008 now. 15 years ago I had a super responsive system (a.k.a AMIGA 1200). It's sad to see how technology has stagnated into such a mess that we see today.
I like many of the things Hardy Heron has to offer, but it was just too annoying to sit wait for a simple things as typing text to show up on my dual LCD's. This is so damn sad that I have no words for it.
My CPU is laxing most of the time, and I have never used any of my swap-space. So not come here and tell me something is not seriously wrong. It's simply a BS-system they have released, and there is no way I can trust these developers in their hype when I saw there was a new version. Usually in my world a 'new version' mean something that will work better, but in this case it was a total downgrade.
My machine is by linux-standards a monster. I saw the responsiveness of Gutsy, so I know what to expect. Unfortunately I was asked to automatically upgrade to latest version by the updater, so this resulted in a totally corrupt OS which forced me into a re-install. So I downed HH, since I hoped a few things would be better, but it took me no less than 14 CD's and 4 downloads before I had a copy that was fault-free. And that from a 3 months old LG-DVD/CD-Burner that has made beautiful copies of everything else burned so far. So yes, you have a lot to fix Ubuntu-guys and I seriously mean that calling something more than version 1.0 should mean that it would work ten times faster and stable than it would with a beta release. Just holding my backspace-key in to erase a sentence can cause it to continue erasing more than two seconds after I release the backspace-key. What should I call something like that? "****" is what first comes to my mind.
Seriously. I have seen a lot of complaints about this, and everytime I get some updates I hope to see real improvements, but no, it's the same bad thing I get after resetting my box and starting it again. Also issues about unexpected crashes and freezing up is a normal thing here. So get your heads together and find out how the hell a machine like mine is less responsive than a Commodore 64. You could argue that I should help doing this, but since I'm a designer and graphic artist, coding is sinmply not my field.
Goood luck and good bye to this annoying crap!!!
I did love it, but they seem to make my decision very easy by distributing an OS like this and letting me sit here with a no less than a big experiment from people who like to call themselves OS-developers. It's simply not fun anymore. Sadly but true. I hate MS-everything, but sad to see how we are still forced to use this. No wonder Windows is and still will be the main system for most people in the world. It's a pain in the butt, and calling it "Linux for normal people" is the biggest irony they could come up with. I have used a lot of OS'es so please not suggest I'm a newbie in this matter. Since a OS is a tool I expect things to work, and not having to be a professor in bits and bytes to do simple things as typing in realtime on computer in 2008.
I am not able to find any suggestions on this forum on how to fix this, and yes call me stupid, but I simply can not find any sollution as to why this is working so slow.
I'm not willing to give up yet, and I will every week load my Ubuntu to see if some updates will change this so that I once again can show off this to people who think XP/Vista is the only good thing to put in a computer. Any suggestions are welcome and I will be happy to try these out since I really have nothing to lose.
The amount of info from the developers are at best limited and there is nothing more for me to do than just wait and continue my work on XP-Pro in the meantime. If this is not fixes soon, I will give up on this, since I not have money to buy a new computer when I one day explode in pure anger and simply kill this ****.
Best Regards,
Gunnar.
I did keep my HOME-partition intact from my previous GutsyGibbon install, but I'm not willing to throw all this away unless I get a sane explanation as to why I should wipe it off and do a pure install, if anyone suggest that this is where my problem may reside. If so, Ubuntu and the whole purpose of the Home folder is gone in my view...
In short my box consists of the following:
AMD 1.8 GHz Single Core
4 GB RAM in QUAD mode.
1.5 Terrabytes SATA2 HDs
Nvidia 8800 GTS.
Anyway, what I'm experiencing just after the first install was the unimaginable slow response I get in Hardy in almost all circumstances of usage. Compiz is turned completely off and its still lagging far behind my expected tempo of use. The thing I value most by OS'es are true responsiveness. Which mean that when I scroll, type, move windows, go through menus etc, this should happen as quickly as I can do it myself or my brain can follow it (this I can do in WinXP. Especially when there is really nothing else happening inside my computer that makes it busy. Like just now: I'm sitting two meters from my monitor, so I just wanted to scale up the fonts in FF, but this just took more than 10 seconds and my FF turned dark in the meantime.
This happens all the time and it's no reason whatsoever that this should occur with regards to my computer specs. I have installed latest Nvidia drivers, have done a clean re-install and really updated my distro on all repositories possible. But I will underline that this was my first impression from the start too, before any additions where added, so I have by no means f***ed up my system by installing third party **** that is regarded as risky. Like now, when I writing, I write faster than Hardy is able to show me this in realtime. So I just want to say. F**k THIS ****!!! I will resist go back to Gutsy, since I think its ******** from Ubuntu developers to give out such **** since they absolutely must have been aware of this before they released it.
It's just a sad story. Luckily I didn't wipe off XP yet, so I still have a somewhat responsive system, but then again it's windows.
I mean: on my calendar it says July 2008 now. 15 years ago I had a super responsive system (a.k.a AMIGA 1200). It's sad to see how technology has stagnated into such a mess that we see today.
I like many of the things Hardy Heron has to offer, but it was just too annoying to sit wait for a simple things as typing text to show up on my dual LCD's. This is so damn sad that I have no words for it.
My CPU is laxing most of the time, and I have never used any of my swap-space. So not come here and tell me something is not seriously wrong. It's simply a BS-system they have released, and there is no way I can trust these developers in their hype when I saw there was a new version. Usually in my world a 'new version' mean something that will work better, but in this case it was a total downgrade.
My machine is by linux-standards a monster. I saw the responsiveness of Gutsy, so I know what to expect. Unfortunately I was asked to automatically upgrade to latest version by the updater, so this resulted in a totally corrupt OS which forced me into a re-install. So I downed HH, since I hoped a few things would be better, but it took me no less than 14 CD's and 4 downloads before I had a copy that was fault-free. And that from a 3 months old LG-DVD/CD-Burner that has made beautiful copies of everything else burned so far. So yes, you have a lot to fix Ubuntu-guys and I seriously mean that calling something more than version 1.0 should mean that it would work ten times faster and stable than it would with a beta release. Just holding my backspace-key in to erase a sentence can cause it to continue erasing more than two seconds after I release the backspace-key. What should I call something like that? "****" is what first comes to my mind.
Seriously. I have seen a lot of complaints about this, and everytime I get some updates I hope to see real improvements, but no, it's the same bad thing I get after resetting my box and starting it again. Also issues about unexpected crashes and freezing up is a normal thing here. So get your heads together and find out how the hell a machine like mine is less responsive than a Commodore 64. You could argue that I should help doing this, but since I'm a designer and graphic artist, coding is sinmply not my field.
Goood luck and good bye to this annoying crap!!!
I did love it, but they seem to make my decision very easy by distributing an OS like this and letting me sit here with a no less than a big experiment from people who like to call themselves OS-developers. It's simply not fun anymore. Sadly but true. I hate MS-everything, but sad to see how we are still forced to use this. No wonder Windows is and still will be the main system for most people in the world. It's a pain in the butt, and calling it "Linux for normal people" is the biggest irony they could come up with. I have used a lot of OS'es so please not suggest I'm a newbie in this matter. Since a OS is a tool I expect things to work, and not having to be a professor in bits and bytes to do simple things as typing in realtime on computer in 2008.
I am not able to find any suggestions on this forum on how to fix this, and yes call me stupid, but I simply can not find any sollution as to why this is working so slow.
I'm not willing to give up yet, and I will every week load my Ubuntu to see if some updates will change this so that I once again can show off this to people who think XP/Vista is the only good thing to put in a computer. Any suggestions are welcome and I will be happy to try these out since I really have nothing to lose.
The amount of info from the developers are at best limited and there is nothing more for me to do than just wait and continue my work on XP-Pro in the meantime. If this is not fixes soon, I will give up on this, since I not have money to buy a new computer when I one day explode in pure anger and simply kill this ****.
Best Regards,
Gunnar.