Am I the Only One Without Issues With Karmic?

[JDorfler]

Ok, I don't know if I have just run into every problem under the sun already and know what to do to fix them, but am I the only one here that has had no problems with Karmic. If you look at my hardware, you will see that I have a pretty up to date machine. I did have to manually install the proprietary drivers from ATI, but I did it without a problem. I did have to go into alsamixer to enable my sound on my Xtremegamer X-fi, but it didn't hurt. Heck, I have Karmic running on my Athlon Neo Netbook without one issue.

So, my question is, since I have read quite frequently on these forums of late is that Karmic is the Vista of Ubuntu and to stick with Jaunty, am I the only one without any problems? Seriously, I haven't had one issue I couldn't solve quickly and without problems. In fact this is the first version of Ubuntu where I didn't have as many issues to fix as I normally do for out of the box love and support.

What exactly makes this version the Vista of Ubuntu?

[DevHead]

I didn't have any issues with Hardy, Jaunty or Karmic (fingers crossed for Lucid).

[2hot6ft2]

+1
The only problems I've had are ones I created myself and I can't think of one. Karmic has performed beautifully. I never used Juanty I went from 8.10 to 9.10

Why people say it's like vista is most likely that they are windows users, and since they don't take the time to learn, they complain, and they use windows as a comparison, and vista is the worst that they know of, so that's their example.

I don't hate windows. I just like ubuntu more (much more).

[bluelamp999]

Karmic has been by far the best release in my personal experience.

Everything 'just worked' and very stable.

[doas777]

I didn't have any real issues with karmic at release, though a good number of bizarre tiny ones came up a couple months ago (mostly pertaining to the mouse, suprisingly). I also noticed simmilar issues going on with my jaunty boxes as well at the same time, so I think it;s related to the rapid file kernel updates we've been getting recently. for a few weeks there i was really worried. had to reboot more to accomplish less than I ever have in ubuntu.

now both my karmic and jaunty systems are back to running smoothly.

Recently I've been having a heck of a time with the ATI proprietary drivers, but other than that, it';s been pretty smooth.

[OGpmpdog]

Hello All,

I started my Ubuntu experience with Intrepid Ibex; Karmic is superior, even if it's only 1 year after Ibex.

With Ibex, I got the gray-screened system freeze more than I liked...sometimes, it would be more than 30 seconds before the system restored.

With Karmic, I've gotten 3 freezes - each one has been less than 3 seconds.

I did have sound issues when I first installed karmic, which were resolved in 10 minutes.

I screwed up the grub 2 bootloader, but, thanks to Ubuntu forums, Grub2 was fixed with 2 command lines...

My machine, which started to slowdown in BS Sheetsa, is a couple of years old...I installed Ibex and my PC worked like new!

I still cant believe how much better karmic is than ibex...guess I've been one of the lucky ones...

Karmic is truly a cutting-edge OS...I will never go back to *******.

Can't wait for the Lucid Stable release, as Beta is not quite ready for everyday use...

[Greenwidth]

So, my question is, since I have read quite frequently on these forums of late is that Karmic is the Vista of Ubuntu

I think it's useful to bear in mind that a lot people only come to this forum if they have a problem, and as such are not a balanced representation of Ubuntu users.

[linux4me]

@JDorfler: Yes, you are the only one.

I have been using Ubuntu since Dapper, and have only had problems significant enough to revert to a previous version twice. One was with Karmic. I did a clean install and everything worked out of the box, but I had random kernel-panic freezes that I wasn't able to resolve. Since they occurred on my work machine and resulted in me losing work every time they happened, I didn't have the luxury of spending a lot of time troubleshooting, so I reverted to Jaunty which runs flawlessly.

I was tempted to try Karmic again after it had been out for a few months, but I never did. Kernel panics are no fun. I'm looking forward to trying Lucid, though. Problems with a couple of distros in all the years I've used Ubuntu haven't soured me on it at all.

I wouldn't go so far as to compare Karmic to Vista. My worst day using Ubuntu is still better than my best day using Winblow$.

[AlanR8]

Used Karmic from Alpha 3 onwards with NO problems. IMHO, best release yet......until

Installed Lucid from Alpha 2. Works great and is better than Karmic IMHO (again).

I use Lucid on my "production" machines with no fear because of GMail and DropBox. All my important stuff is backed up remotely so I can do a full re-install without thinking of data loss.

[quids]

This is my first time with Ubuntu. I first installed Karmic on my ancient laptop after getting fed up with a 20+ min boot up time for XP. Had a few problems with the old hardware, but got going in the end.
I liked Karmic so much that I put it on my desktop computer, which is only a couple of years old. Made a couple of stupid newbie mistakes, but it all worked without any problems.

I'll certainly be staying with Ubuntu.