[ELECTRON] Crazy Ubuntu.

[JOHN COUZIN]

Thanks, I'm rather ignorant in these things, but I'll have a look at what you say.    John.




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 From: kieran wild <kieranwild at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, 22 March 2013, 0:07
Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] Crazy Ubuntu.
 
It could be a bad sector on the hard drive. You could try really
different distro like Fedora or openSUSE but Ubuntu still tends to
have the best driver support.

Kieran

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:00 AM,  <rathgild at gmail.com> wrote:
> I never had any of those problems with the later versions of ubuntu - in my case the system ran slower than a snail on valium.  There does appear to be a number of issues with unity and certain graphics drivers, but as you don't say what your graphics card is I couldn't say definitely that that is your issue.
>
> For what it's worth the lackadaisical way that Canonical have (or, in reality haven't) handled the driver caused me to jump ship and migrate to Linux Mint using the cinnamon desktop.
>
> Jan
> Edlug Penguin Wrangler
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> From: JOHN COUZIN <john.c.at95 at btinternet.com>
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>
> Hi,
>     I'm looking for a bit of help. I have been using Ubuntu for about a year now and found it great. However this week it suddenly went haywire, it froze, words disappeared, the screen broke up, images distorted, and sometimes I ended up with the screen split diagonally with a line across from corner to corner. I kept getting messages stating that Ubuntu had a system error, reported the error but it kept on coming with the same message. I have uninstalled it about six or seven times and re-installed alternating between 12.04 and 12.1 systems from the Ubuntu download page. They both work fine until the first updates come through and after the update, it is back to the banana antics. I have also got windows on the computer, but as I have said everything worked fine for about a year. Any ideas, before I go crazy.    John.
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