I recently had to install Ubuntu for work. Before that I normally used Win7 at home (+ unix shell at work via Putty). Things that Ubuntu sucks at: 1) Power management. It really blows. a) My laptop keeps shutting down without any warning that the battery is low, and half the time Ubuntu doesn't even know whether my laptop is plugged or running off of battery. b) My laptop is blasting the CPU cooler at full power, all…
Ubuntu is great at power management (or, more accurately, Linux in general), but if your laptop isn't supported for whatever reason Ubuntu is just screwed and there's nothing it can do. 5: The problem is actually that there are two copy and paste buffer in X Windows. There's the mouse selection buffer, which is copied on any highlight operation, and pasted via right mouse button, and the "conventional clipboard", pop…
Re: A musician tells his story of switching from Mac to Ubuntu
#31I agree about the well supported hardware bit. In my experience buying Thinkpads is near optimal for using linux since so many other hackers use them that any bugs get fixed quickly.