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Re: Ubuntu 16.04

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On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 19:44:09 -0400
flatfish+++ <flatfish4real@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 19:35:02 -0400, DFS wrote:
> 
> > On 8/9/2016 6:31 PM, ronb wrote:  
> >> On Sun, 07 Aug 2016 20:38:56 -0700, davidwillsalden wrote:
> >>  
> >>> On Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 7:37:43 PM UTC-7, philo wrote:  
> >>>> Just wondering if anyone else has done the upgrade yet?  
> >>>
> >>> I did the upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04 on my Thinkpad X220 and it
> >>> is a disaster! On startup all I get is a terminal type message
> >>> that it has 'started' or is 'starting' or has 'created' a variety
> >>> of things.  And then it just sits frozen.  What can I do?  
> >>
> >> Quit lying, lying troll. You know you're full of crap.  
> > 
> > 
> > uh huh... all the hobbyware victims at:
> > 
> > Mint:      http://forums.linuxmint.com/
> > Ubuntu:    http://ubuntuforums.org
> > Fedora:    http://fedoraforum.org/
> > Mageia:    https://forums.mageia.org/en/
> > Debian:    http://forums.debian.net/
> > openSUSE:  http://forums.opensuse.org/
> > Arch:      https://bbs.archlinux.org/
> > CentOS:    http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/
> > Puppy:     http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/
> > PCLinuxOS: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/
> > Ultimate:  http://forumubuntusoftware.info/
> > Lubuntu:   http://ubuntuforums.org/tags.php?tag=lubuntu
> > Pear:      http://pearlinux.org/index.php/forum/index
> > Chakra:    http://chakra-project.org/bbs/
> > Sabayon:   http://forum.sabayon.org/
> > Bodhi:     http://forums.bodhilinux.com/
> > Slackware: 
> > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?forumid=14
> > Gentoo:    http://forums.gentoo.org/
> > Zorin:     http://www.zoringroup.com/forum/
> > Fuduntu:   http://www.fuduntu.org/forum/
> > 
> > are liars too...  
> 
> Anyone who dares to criticize the almighty Linux is deemed a liar. I
> can't believe these Linux dorks are still using the same routines from
> the same play book they've been using for 20 years.

Forums are places where people with problem will go out first as soon
as they hit one. It's not just linux, any os forums are flooded with
users with problems...

> 
> And before one of them comes along and replies 3rd party claiming that
> we are still claiming the same faults with Linux, like sound problems
> for example, that's because these problems are still real and have yet
> to be fixed.

No sound problems since more then two years...


> 
> BTW my Windows anniversary update took less than 30 minutes to
> complete.
> Works perfectly.

For you. Some weren't that lucky.. and guess what where they will
complain first?

> 
> I've never had that happen with Linux major version updates.
> Something always gets hosed.

What distro? Linux is generic term...

> Sometimes it's minor, other times the system is completely hosed.
> Ubuntu seems to be the worst followed by Suse.

I am on Manjaro, it's rolling release... they recently opened new forum
where users perform q&a on future updates. That is, there are three
levels of repos. Unstable,Testing and Stable.
It is rare that problems hit Stable now, but it happens...

> 

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Re: Ubuntu 16.04 davidwillsalden@gmail.com - 2016-08-07 20:38 -0700
  Re: Ubuntu 16.04 flatfish+++ <flatfish4real@gmail.com> - 2016-08-07 23:50 -0400
    Looking for vacuum pump for extra help flatfish+++ <flatfish4real@gmail.cum> - 2016-08-10 05:13 -0500
  Re: Ubuntu 16.04 Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-08-08 15:04 +0100
  Re: Ubuntu 16.04 DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-08-08 14:31 -0400
  Re: Ubuntu 16.04 ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-08-09 22:31 +0000
    Re: Ubuntu 16.04 DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-08-09 19:35 -0400
      Re: Ubuntu 16.04 flatfish+++ <flatfish4real@gmail.com> - 2016-08-09 19:44 -0400
        Re: Ubuntu 16.04 Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-08-10 01:59 +0200
          Re: Ubuntu 16.04 flatfish+++ <flatfish4real@gmail.com> - 2016-08-09 20:11 -0400
            Re: Ubuntu 16.04 Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-08-10 02:22 +0200
              Re: Ubuntu 16.04 flatfish+++ <flatfish4real@gmail.com> - 2016-08-09 20:32 -0400
          Re: Ubuntu 16.04 chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-10 07:34 -0500
            Re: Ubuntu 16.04 William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2016-08-10 13:54 +0100
              Re: Ubuntu 16.04 flatfish+++ <flatfish4real@gmail.com> - 2016-08-10 09:54 -0400
            Re: Ubuntu 16.04 flatfish+++ <flatfish4real@gmail.com> - 2016-08-10 09:53 -0400
    Re: Ubuntu 16.04 Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-08-09 20:11 -0400

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