Upgraded to Gutsy, still working out the kinks

Posted on October 24, 2007 by probabilityZero

I upgraded on Saturday, but I still haven’t gotten everything working. Right now sound capture isn’t working, and I only just got compiz-fusion working (which is weird, considering I had it working perfectly in Feisty; I had to remove it before the upgrade and reinstall it from the Gutsy repos, but all sorts of things went wrong).

It was worth it to upgrade, though, if only because of the new software versions. Plus, I finally got Pidgin working with gfire.

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3 Responses to Upgraded to Gutsy, still working out the kinks

  1. Anonymous says:
    October 26, 2007 at 5:59 pm

    nice, maybe time to upgrade…

  2. Tech Roach says:
    November 2, 2007 at 4:26 am

    I think the devs need to make it really easy for normal people to configure their system and it should work properly out of the box. Thats where Mac gets an upper edge. For me, being a busy bee, its really hard to lost almost half an hour configuring the new OS. But, I did upgrade anyway. :)

  3. probabilityZero says:
    November 2, 2007 at 2:52 pm

    Tech Roach: It isn’t the dev’s fault that my soundcard drivers don’t work correctly. Also, have you ever tried running MacOS on non-standard hardware? It runs like crap. The only reason things “work out of the box” on Macs is because Apple controls all the hardware that gets put in a Mac. I can get Ubuntu running on pretty much anything; boxes with partially broken drives, no-name brand hardware, etc. Same with Windows, to a lesser extent. You’d be lucky if you got a hacked copy of MacOSX to even start on a non-apple pc, even if the pc was in perfect condition. Besides, it isn’t worth it to me to spend the extra $1000 on an overpriced pc Apple computer just to make sure the devices all work upon upgrading.

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