Ubuntu 8.04

April 24th, 2008

The slogan is “it just doesn’t works.” I may have modified that slogan a bit. I downloaded the new version of Ubuntu today. They’ve been advertising better this, and better that, blah blah blah. They forget to advertise better headaches.

One of the new features is that it will install while you’re in Windows, then you reboot and you can pick which OS you want to boot into. It’s supposed to make it easier for nontechnical people since you don’t have to partition your hard drive. It doesn’t work. I loaded it up, rebooted, chose Ubuntu, and got a terminal window with a bunch of errors. Way to go.

I did finally get it to boot from the live cd, but I didn’t feel like taking the time to install it on my hard drive. I already have my laptop set to dual boot windows and linux, so I’ll just upgrade that version of ubuntu later. Right now it sounds like more fun to play TF2. I’m only blogging because I’m burning a CD. By the way, my thumb drive is the slowest thumb drive known to man. It took like 10 minutes to delete 170MB from it. Time to get a new thumb drive.

My CD is done so it’s time to play games. Be wary of the new Ubuntu. Better yet, you go ahead and figure out the trick to installing in windows and then you let me know. I don’t feel like it.

p.s. For some reason Ubuntu doesn’t see my 2 drives that are striped, and the 2 mirrored sets show up as 4 separate hard drives. That could come in handy at some point if a drive crashes, but in this case it’s a pain in the ass.

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