Post your install experience Good or Bad.

[abaue562]

u guys have aim? or yahoo im?

oh and sorry if i posted this here i didn't know if i was so if i wasn't sorry

[ixnod]

u guys have aim? or yahoo im?

oh and sorry if i posted this here i didn't know if i was so if i wasn't sorry

No worries, you did a very commendable job bringing the matter to our attention. It is the end user such as yourself that makes this community such a great place to be. We encourage everyone to be just as vigilant

[Tib]

lol, i was going to say....is it just me, or do i see people saying they love it, and it's not even out yet lol. Burning it to a DVD right now to test it on my laptop....2.0 was a total bust for me, didn't work on my desktop or my laptop >_<, I was so sad lol.

[Baphomet]

Just did a fresh install myself the other day and, having been doing some serious distro hopping over the past several months, I can say this is a pretty whiz-bang release. Plain Vanilla Intrepid installs okay on my system, but system-startup was sluggish, Firefox was all-a-crashy, Pulse Auido was iffy (at best), Compiz was a REAL pain in the ass and overall my system felt flaky. I thought I'd be bypassing Intrepid altogether. Ultimate Edition 2.1 though seems just about flawless.

If this were my distro I'd do some things differently regarding what packages are installed by default, but that's me that's what Synaptic is for, right? If I had to find a complaint it would have to do with the sources.list file. I'm not sure why, but I'm getting an ass load of missing gpg key errors. Most likely I'll be able to clean those up but I wonder if an Ubuntu n00b is gonna freak over seeing those errors when they go to use the update manager.

The only real tweak I had to perform was to un-check that stupid "Audigy Analog/Digital Ouput Jack" (or some $#!% like that) tic-box in the Volume Control properties to get my sound-card pumping out the volume, but that's a pretty standard thing to have to do on my system.

Of course artwork is always going to be a totally subjective thing, but I don't mind telling you Ultimate Edition gets a total makeover the minute the post-install reboot is done. I don't have any use (or desire) for "cute" cursor schemes and the like, but that's me.

I do think Ultimate Edition would do well to define itself a little more with its overall (default) presentation. The dark-ish splash-screen and dark system-theme scream post-modern high-tech, while the cutesy penguin cursor scheme and spinning logo "hourglass" seems diametrically opposed. If it were my distro, I'd put together something simple and sleek with a lot polish and go for a high-end professional sort of look.

Just one pagan deitie's personal opinion.

[Baphomet]

I believe the error coming from the gpg thing is because TheeMahn's repo is not up and running at the moment. Once he gets that on line, the error's should go away. I had the same problem when trying to update and that was the response given when I asked about it.

So this is all YOUR fault then?!! I shoulda f--king known it... Hope you're f--king happy! Remind me to kill you later.

[pch.shot]

The best one so far. Can't wait for 64 bit. That's what will be on my old box(I'll be running raid this time)!! Fixes for previous issues well appreciated. Still waiting for Opera web browser to be included!!!

[pch.shot]

I'll figure it out by hook or by crook. When I do I'll pm you. I should have it working by Monday or Tuesday at the latest. I'm so sick of the hard drive bottleneck now I'm willing to try anything.
I have 2 seagate sata II barracuda 250s(identical-that's important for raid 0 which is what I'll be running).

[Baphomet]

Everything else is up to speed and kicks some serious ass, but you are never gonna see it with those damn snail Drives. It is pretty bad that ya have to start ganging the drives together to get some faster speeds.

???

Are the 10K RPM 16MB cache Raptor drives not fast/fast enough?

Are you two just being butt-nuggets because you can't do anything else?? WTF??
And why are you f--king pissing me off so f--king bad so f--king early in the f--king morning???

F--k!!!!!

[pch.shot]

There is nothing on th planet that can read and write at 3 gigs/sec. The fusion-io pci storage unit is probably the fastest right now. Spinning hard drives are on there way out. They are the true bottle neck on a modern pc. Oh by the way, the Raptor is fast but really load. It sounds like a coffee machine. Apparently, the newest raptor is even worse. I didn't buy the raptor for speed i bought it because it has a five year warranty(and I push the $#!% out of it).
p.s. If I had 4 drives I would run them all in raid 0. A friend of mine can boot Vista in 18 seconds by running 4 drives in raid 0!!!

[pch.shot]

It's the terminology used. What to look for is read write speeds that's what really counts!!!