Time to say good bye. This stuff still does not work.

[QDR06VV9]

Seems like many people leave their OS -- doesn't really make much difference which one -- when some single disaster pushes them over the edge. Changing platform isn't easy and it isn't risk free.

+1 It is the old greener pasture's scenario...but I found out very early in life that no mater where i go there "I"am

[1clue]

There are some who have a real forum presence (meaning more than 2 beans), but what they all seem to want is for people to be hurt by their departure or, at times, they want to be talked out of it.

The truth is, the Ubuntu organization does not get anything for this guy staying, nor does Canonical or any of the rest of us.

Nobody will lose sleep over this, except perhaps the OP.

I've been around computers almost as long as the OP. I remember punch cards when they were in use in viable businesses. I used to work with 9-track (open reel) tapes as a routine part of my job. I pretty much converted to Linux full-time on my desktop in 1996, and worked with UNIX and mainframes at work at that point. Now I maintain a lot of linux boxes, from several distros. I know as much as anyone how reliable and unreliable Linux can be.

The OP's misfortune seems like bad luck that can happen on any operating system. Frankly I find it hard to believe that someone who has been in the business as long as I have would tolerate a system that regularly crashes. Most IT professionals I know from my age group don't even tolerate errors in the logs, let alone a crash. And as was previously mentioned, a total of 4 forum posts on this forum. Draw whatever conclusions you will for that.

[goofprog]

What I found out is things just do not work the way people want them too sometimes. This is why I actually am working on another Linux distro because I was just not comfortable with ubuntu on *this* laptop. I still have it on another machine but oh well. Whatever works. I believe that Microsoft Windows is great for running a business because it costs money and can be written off because it is considered an asset. I can only see business people overseas in Europe and other places running Linux in the business sector. I just guess maybe Germany and the Danish. Just a guess. It is because they would do the same thing as we do in the US and buy the enterprise version of Linux to mark off as an asset.

[mikodo]

+1 It is the old greener pasture's scenario...but I found out very early in life that no mater where i go there "I"am

You know my friend, that is a lesson I am afraid many people, if not most of the people I know, either never seem to really appreciate or that the realization comes to them only in latter life after, trying this and that with the same results. I am impressed in that you figured that out, "very early in life". Seriously, no kidding. I know a lot of people professionally who, never seem to grasp this.

And ... I like the way you said that, "no matter where I go, there I am". Makes me smile again, to even type it now.

[Irihapeti]

This thread has run its course, and was starting to get a bit heated, therefore it's closed.