Need community feedback on Ubuntu 9.10, worth it or not?
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I have Kubuntu 9.10 and really like it. I have had no issues with it (though I didn't encrypt my drives, so that may be why) and think it's worth installing.
I installed 9.10 on ext4, dual-booting with Windows XP. I noticed afterwards, in the release notes (listed fairly far down) that ext4 may cause corruption of large files. I'm kind of irked that this distro has been released with a potentially corruptible file system. I've skimmed other Internet postings which claim the corruption problem was resolved in October 29, but I am left wondering.
I use DSL, and the System/Preferences/Network Connections menu system CANNOT be used to make internet connections. I have to open a terminal and type ps -e, and then kill the nm-applet process. After that, I have to type sudo pppoeconf and enter my user name and password and accept defaults. Please, nobody tell me about the upgrade repositories for "fixing" the GUI Network Connections; I already tried them and they don't work.
You can't run even a 2-year-old smash game (I tried to load Bioshock with the latest beta Wine).
Like the Hardy Heron I was using, I feel I need commercial software crutches to run the new Linux (especially Terabyte Inc. IFL, to restore my last installation). If I ran this without that protection, face it, I'd be a freetard.
i like it, using 9.10-ubuntu. i got a little problem with empathy/firestarter, but all in all its really nice.
as other got probs and lots of things are new (ext4, grub2, ...) you might consider waiting for the spring and lts-edtition, when things will have setteled down.
(assuming you got a nice running OS atm, else it wouldnt matter...).
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