Installing new Linux based operating systems was a huge pain not so far ago. I remember chasing Suse distribution dependencies and the nightmare it involved.
Ubuntu scored a major hit with users with its sleek out of the box installation, and ease of the package management using auto-dependencies resolution.
However, still there are problems. I happened to install Ubuntu-14.04 on my laptop two months ago, and had a huge problem with getting basic things to work, for e.g. sound was missing so I had to search endless web-links to find the correct hacks.
Identifying correct nvidia-graphics driver was a pain, so the same story repeated. I spent a huge amount of time to get the system to a working state.
Luckily this was a 32 bit installation and when after installing Android SDK its emulator failed to launch due to its dependency on 64 bit architecture, I was forced to remove my 14.04 installation and upgrade to a latest 14.10 installation with 64 bit support.
What a pleasant package this major release is. It does almost everything out of the box. No pain hacks to get things working. Below is a link which describes some main tasks that could enhance the user experience once the installation is done. Some major relief is in the area of.
http://jfnlinuxproject.blogspot.com/2014/11/20-things-i-did-after-installing-ubuntu.html
2. Audio works out of the box.
3. Nvidia-drivers are detected in the package manager.
4. System tools work out of the box.
And many other annoying little bugs that were present all across 14.04 are gone.
Thank you very much for making my life simpler Ubuntu. I so much appreciate it.
No comments:
Post a Comment