Ubuntu 8.04.. annoyances part 1
June 09, 2008
No, I did not jump on the Ubuntu bandwagon, and a number of annoyances in it just made sure I am not going to get sucked into the unbunt hype.
- no textmode install it seems
- it puts the swap partition (when using a blank disk) on sda5 – even though there are like 3 primary partition slots left.
- (Switching to tty1.)
- installation went through without asking me much — but then it decides not to start a DHCP client in the installed system
- framebuffer console has a really thin font (1 pixel, yes)
- Entering a wrong command implies a 0.983 second delay because it needlessy searches for suggestions.
- The kbd package was not installed, so switching to another font took a minute more than anticipated.
- kbd installed, but all the setfont command can tell me: "Cannot find default font". Ubuntu packaging is at a fail.
- Next try. `
dpkg -L kbd`. Result: no fonts provided! - Trying to boot with vga=0 to get an 80x25 screen and a sane font. Framebuffer is still started. Stupid.
- start X even though I specified "3" at the boot prompt — no it is worse: they start GDM in runlevel 2 and 3 by default.
- more to come?
Ubuntu remains what its major aim is: to attract lots of users. I disrecommend it to all professionals, including from the Windows sector.
