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Cussing and Praising Kubuntu

Posted by tuxchick on · 1 comment
Linux Today Blog; By Carla Schroder 		Mail this story
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I have never had a successful Ubuntu dist-upgrade, so I had low expectations. Amazingly, it was successful on my computer... ...which surprised me because the poor thing gets thrashed in all kinds of ways. I'm forever installing weird software and hardware, and doing source builds and backports and you name it, and it keeps on chugging anyway. I gave it a good housecleaning first to give it a fighting chance and deleted all the weird junk, and it went fine except for one thing-- those dratted NVidia drivers. We hatess Nvidia.

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tuxchick Story submitter ·
I heart wicd all over again-- network manager saw my wireless network, but couldn't pick up an IP address. Installing wicd automatically nukes Network manager, yay! And life is good again. I wish *buntu would make wicd the default.

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