On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 10:43 -0700, Stuart Axon wrote: > I'm not convinced this is purely an ubuntu thing, I'd be willling to > try a different one if there is a live cd with gnome shell I will test > it on that too. > I'll try upgrading to 14.04 and see what happens too > [Please ignore this slight rant:] > I think I'm coming to the end of my patience with Ubuntu -
Good, I hope MANY people loose patience with Ubuntu. Ubuntu has done more damage to the idea of an Open desktop than all the Internet trolls combined. > My experience is thus: > Turn on computer > Login with GDM > Close about 8 "a system problem occurred" dialogues (not sure if that > is the actual text). And *THIS* does not bother you? I see ZERO "a system problem occurred" dialogs. Perhaps you could address the problem these are reporting? Seeing errors upon login is already a rather bad sign. > Now, from there - gnome shell is good, I like it (I don't mind other > people can't use my computer (they're learning though). > Then, often I try and play an FLV video (in a player/browser/doesn't > matter) - after about 2 minutes it will do the freezing thing, which I > can battle past and fix - funnily only for long videos, music is > usually OK. There is something unique to your setup occurring here, I have watched hours of video while running GNOME Shell. > When the computer wakes up from hibernate the fans sometimes go full > blast I have to turn off the computer unplug it and take the batteries > out, sometimes after that they are still FULL(!) - so I do it again > and it behaves. Can you view the computer's reported temperatures? > TL;DR: > I've been on gnome since before 1.0 and Ubuntu since Dapper, it is > such a pain I might just get a mac, which is a shame as really think > libre software is important and am adamantly cross platform in the > code I care about. Your experience is not normal. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
