Based on some comments from my previous posts about Ubuntu, I decided I would in fact give it a try but if you are looking for a glamorous review of Ubuntu, this is not going to be it. I have nothing good to say about the operating system, its bootloader or anything about it really except that the LiveCD worked and my wireless decided to work but not my graphics card… you try looking at an “out of phase” display for a few minutes, see HOW you like it.

First I tried to install Ubuntu Studio which failed; I couldn’t get past the X-Server error or whatever gibberish it spits out that counts as an error. For the record, X-Server has got to be the worst implementation of anything in the history of operating systems; it’s too stupid for its own good. I shouldn’t have to define the hardware location of my graphics card nor manually input my display characteristics… oh and the manual configuration shouldn’t be a half baked cross between a GUI and text installer either.

At this point I figured it might be a bad DVD so I ran the disc checker (the one that comes with all Linux distros) which found no errors. The command to manually configure X-Server is not worth the space in my brain to remember, that’s what search engines are for, friends.

Full ...er, uh, hmm... Rant.