My appologizies to Garry! I see that Linux Mint 9 is based on Ubuntu 10.04. I am truly sorry. After using Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, and now 10.04, I am somewhat disgruntled with 10.04. In theory, each version should be an improvement over the last. I've had a few relatively minor issues with past versions, and while I like the additional boot speed and appearence of 10.04, I've had 4 significant issues with it. There is the recurring problem where some hardware will not awake from sleep. Some systems work perfectly, and some not at all. Then I had the issue of web pages, scans, and pdf creator pages printing with a cream colored background. This has now been fixed. Then we have the issue of the printers disappearing, which still happens for me on two computers. To top things off though, one would assume that openoffice would work to perfection. I found last week that if you do an install of the openoffice individual applications or the entire suite from the repository, the spell checker doesn't function. It pretends it does. Openoffice in a linux distrubution should be rock solid. Any simple testing would reveal this problem. So I downloaded and installed openoffice directly from openoffice.org and have a fully functrioning spell checker and office suite. Quality control is certainly lacking! Then I tried to report this bug. The two preferred ways in their instructions didn't work, so I made up a launchpad bug report which crashed when it was trying to upload. At that point I gave up!!!!!!!! Frustration. I admire what Ubuntu has done for Linux, and their goals. But quality control and something that works out of the box is of great importance to convert new people to Linux. Printers that disappear and spell checks that pretend to function and do nothing don't cut it to convert new users to either Linux or Ubuntu. If I were a brand new user, I would look at all of these issues and say it is back to Windows. Linux isn't ready for the destop yet.
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