Ubuntu 11.10 Makes Baby Jesus Cry...

... wel he would if he could, but it makes me want to slit my wrists in sheer frustration!

In the past, Linux distros have been able to make sure that old computers can stay out of landfill and perform useful functions for far longer. Microsoft's operating system, comparatively, required faster and stronger machines almost every year so that they could remain reasonably functional.  That's why I dumped MS for both commercial and personal endeavours.

I've done my best to restore pre-11.10 performance. I've searched blogs all over the internet. I've searched Ubuntu forums. I've even looked at h4xor (choke, splutter) places to see what can be done to make this abomination called "Ubuntu 11.10" walk, let alone run.

In my opinion, it's worse than Windows 3.0 compared to GEM - if you can remember back that far.

11.04 was OK. No complaints. Stable. Performance was OK.

11.10? An abomination!

Using Unity, I find it totally useless. Gnome 2.x? Not much better. Gnome 3.x? FFS... no real difference compared to Unity. Why, in fifteen different kinds of buggery did Canonical want to mess up something that worked so well?

Henceforth, the word 'ubuntu' will no longer translate to a beneficial grand and good ideology. It will now be comprehended as  "how to fuck up something that used to work well, in a manner that causes it to barely function any more".

I hear words, possibly a rumour, that Ubuntu (aka Canonical) wanted to take on the big boys (i.e iOS and Android) and at last gain a significant commercial return, somehow. What they have done instead is shot themselves in the foot, multiple times with a very large field gun at point-blank range.

Right now, I wouldn't trust Canonical to organise [an event] in [a place where that event is usual and expected, and expected to be paid in cash] with a fist full of cash. I'm sure you can extrapolate that one, dear reader.


Canonical? You suck. Please - fix this mess and suck less. I implore you.


Peace Out? No... not this time.

Ubuntu 11.10 Running Dog Slow? Solved!

I took the leap of faith to install Ubuntu 11.10 - and a bad step it was! This has to be the most broken distro I've ever played with.

If you've done it, you probably had networking, NFS mount and video issues. Or if you were very lucky only one or less of these problems.

The biggest problem of all is that it runs ultra slow. Horribly, agonisingly slow.

So - here's a fix:
Open a terminal.
Type "top" and you can see what processes are sponging your CPU.
You may see one called "tracker-extract"... and look how much CPU the little sucker is chewing!

Uninstall it, reboot and peace be with you... and a more usable machine using less power.

Have fun.