Gordon JC Pearce wrote: > babaguy wrote: >> William Anderson wrote: This is the Wrong Approach, imo. As Ben >> mentioned earlier, it's awfulto turn round and say to someone "the >> distro you have selected is tehwrongness". For general purpose >> personal computing, Ubuntu is just asappropriate as Fedora, >> Slackware, SuSE; more so in some cases, andespecially wrt later >> Ubuntu releases such as Edgy, as the UI andusability is just so >> strong and easy to pick up (usually).If I have a problem with my 2003 >> Fiat Punto, I really don't expect to beadvised "tsk, you want a Ford >> Fiesta, that'll tidy up that disc brakeproblem you're having". Or >> "can't change channels on your Thomson 28"CRT TV set? A 42" LCD Sony >> Bravia will sort that out just nicely". Seemy point? William, I >> certainly see your point and I agree with you. But the problems I've >> encountered with what should be very straightforward tasks in the >> Ubuntu 5.10 (from only a year and half ago, after all...) are - I >> hope and trust - not Linux or even Ubuntu problems generally, but, > >> as I've said, a concatenation of unfortunate events. One ought to be >> able to use the Thesaurus in O.O. Writer... >> >> One ought to be able to cut or copy from a web page and paste into an >> O.O. Writer document, either via keyboard shortcuts or via the GUI >> options... > > You can. I've been doing this all week, with a list of translations > of 30-odd pages of a website translated into 14 different languages. > >> One ought to be able to open the BIOS, open the different boot >> options (as I can do) and be able to select the desired boot sequence >> using the designated keys (which I can't because there is no key or >> combination of keys that will highlight and selects those options - >> the only thing one is allowed to do is press esc or F1 to exit ) Yet, >> as I've said, the Ubuntu booted immediately from CD, installed and >> wiped the Windows disk without any discernable problems... > > You can. Ubuntu hasn't somehow magically modified your BIOS so you > can't boot from CD, you're just not doing it right. > >> One ought to be able to install downloaded sofware via Synaptic when >> no other installation pkg is running or has been running during that >> session, without getting the message that some other pkg like apt-get >> is running and needs to be closed - > > You can, you're just not following the instructions. It works for > everyone else. If it says another package manager is running, then > another package manager is running. > >> One ought to be able to hit the <tab> key to complete a file >> name or hit it repeatedly to have it bring up a series of possible >> software packages or at least give some response besides a beep. > > It beeps if there are no possible tab completions to display. What do > you want it to do, try and guess what you mean? If I type > "sadfasdfasdadsfg<TAB>" what should happen? > >> But these are the problems I've encountered. I'm not under the >> illusion that Slackware or Mandriva or any particular version of >> Linux would solve these very simple problems....They simply should >> not occur. The fact they they DO occur and take up all our precious >> time, is kind of daunting. > > They occur because you're not following the instructions people are > giving you, or you're making incorrect assumptions about how things work. > >> The things that I would like to be able to do with my computer and in >> Linux are not difficult to comprehend or to do. I don't understand >> why it has proved so tough to get them done..... > > Because you're not following the instructions. > > Gordon > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > > Or to sum it up: "RTFM"? :)
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