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You know what? Fuck you Ubuntu!

I just had it with Ubuntu. I really had some honest and true hope for this distro but I just lost it after installing version 11.10

Canonical is trying to create a distro of Linux, so simple that, as the saying goes (and I’m paraphrasing), only idiots will end using it. In this version they have finally removed, from the default installation, all the components required by any Linux/Ubuntu enthusiast.
Sure it looks beautiful and the installation experience has nothing to envy from other operating systems, but the thing is, and I guess this is what Canonical doesn’t get, whomever installs Ubuntu is going to need all the shit you are trying to hide.

Here’s the thing: Let’s assume that my mom, my wife or any of my friends (well, not any, but about 99% of them) decide to give Ubuntu a try. As soon as they try to do something as simple as to play a DVD, go to YouTube, (try to) watch a video that someone posted on Facebook, or… just to mention a few of the most common tasks a newcomer will try, they are going to end receiving a weird error/warning message explaining that they cannot do that because of some stupid crap about a license and some software that needs to be installed.

Now, please Canonical, go ahead and explain that to my mom, my wife or any of my friends.
What happens next? Well, they call me.

So, what do I do? Simple, I launch Synaptic Package Manager and… wait, what the fuck? Where’s the Synaptic Package Manager?

And that’s just to mention one missing tool. In version 11.10 Canonical has decided to remove everything that WE (the ones who helped make Ubuntu what it is today by either developing for it or by simply sharing it) actually need and use.

Look Canonical, Ubuntu is not Windows nor Mac OS and, hopefully, it will never be. But because of that same reason you are NOT allowed to ignore those who put you in this privileged position of being “the third OS” and the most popular Linux distribution.

And what about Mono in Ubuntu?
Fuck all the fucking idiots and their conspiracy theories about Novell, Mono and Miguel.

Mono is, without a question, the best thing that could have happened to Linux and Canonical should embrace it with the same energy they do other things. Operating systems become popular because of the applications that are available for them, not because of the operating systems themselves and Mono is, by far, the easiest way to attract Windows developers to either port or to simply develop new applications for Ubuntu. Have you learned nothing… at all?
Remember this saying Canonical: “Developers, developers, developers!”

So after going through all the hell of reverting to the standard desktop, because I hate the Unity shit with all my guts, and installing MonoDevelop I find that my screensaver-settings doesn’t fucking work!
Not only the installer for MonoDevelop is broken, as it doesn’t install the C# compiler (holy motherfucking shit!), I just discovered that Canonical killed the screensavers scene altogether!

Yep, in Ubuntu 11.10 THERE ARE NO screensavers.

I did fix the problems with screensaver-settings so that the poor thing doesn’t crash when it finds it has no purpose, but I have decided that there’s actually no purpose in trying to revive a tool where the developers of the operating system insist in killing.

So, without further ado:

screensaver-settings is officially closed/dead

Oh! and FUCK YOU UBUNTU!

PS: That linux-hater guy surly had it right all along…

http://twitter.com/gasparov Luca

Ubuntu is one of the linux distros mate, thare are many others you can try. Ubuntu is for noobies, just get on their forums:” I have problem x with transmission, a bittorrent client” Answer:”install wine and utorrent”…WTF!!!!

Try archlinux or gentoo if you want something else.
- http://software.xfx.net Xavier Flix
  
  I think you are missing the point.
  
  Notice the rant is about Ubuntu, not Linux in general and, although I understand it is intended for “noobs”, as you say, that is no excuse to alienate hardcore/power users. Basically, that’s what the whole rant is about.
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_APQBG5XUWQRHT7NLPL6RZNZDII Trent
    
    Ubuntu for ‘noobs’, not so much. I’m have good experience with Ubuntu, and it’s not too user friendly when it comes to making it do exactly what you want… which is why I constantly switch back and forth from linux to windows. All linux distros are pretty much the same, just with a different user interface. That like saying the windows 7 home premium is better than professional. The only difference, really, is that the games aren’t already installed and readily playable.
    
    Off topic- I’ve noticed that linux in general sucks. And so does windows. And so does mac. Linux has irritating dependency problems and half of the programs just DON’T WORK RIGHT, Windows has a serious problem with viruses (installed Weatherbug.. yes weatherbug, and got a virus), and Mac is just way too proprietary. You want free bullshit, go with Linux, you want some kick ass games, go with Windows, you want decent stability, go with Mac.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_APQBG5XUWQRHT7NLPL6RZNZDII Trent

but yes, I agree, Ubuntu isn’t stepping foward, just a shitty step to the side.
Charles Maglaughlin

I 100% agree. Now I have to go back to 11.04. Castrate the moron who did this!
- http://software.xfx.net Xavier Flix
  
  For me, Ubuntu died in version 10.04
  Using the 7/8/9 series was an amazing experience, but after 10.04 things started to change and you
  could even tell from the pretencious attitude of the mods at Canonical forums.
  
  I have just installed Mint/Cinamon on my (now very old) laptop and it’s working wonderfully. Sure, it is based on Debian and there are many pitfalls caused by this new minimalistic/apple mentalitity, but still, it is a lot better than any post-10.xx version of Ubuntu.
  
  I mean, I still feel like I’m the one “in control” of my computer.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4F5ABNHADVXWE3BQAUTFTDMDPU Joey

I’ve been on Ubuntu since 8.10. Not long I guess. I’m pretty pissed also, I’m a unix admin. I feel like Ubuntu was really close to wiping out the competition in every hardcore windows user’s mind. I say, let’s all go through proper channels and let canonical fix it. compared to 9.10. I think 11.10 sucks.
I don’t think anyone from cannonical will pay much attention to this though. Please, Let’s do this right, cuz i fracking hate this too. Unity has some neat things. But why strip out really good tools. Please lets make a list here. add to it. then Everyone go write a formal complaint to community-council@lists.ubuntu.com about the list as it grows. over and over. that’s what it will take my freinds. pleas keep adding to this list and repost it for easy cut and paste.

Attention council ;

Ubuntu has broken and or removed the following features we, the people making up that ring which is your logo, feel have been standard features of Ubuntu that we do not want to do without.

1. An unaltered Gnome 2 desktop option.
even after installing the fallback package we can’t even drag an icon to the main menu bar attop the supposed gnome classic desktop.

2. Compiz is not a fraction of what it used to be.
     I told a co-worker all about compiz and was embarassed
     when all I could do was a cube. no top / bottom image, no cylinder, no sphere, no fire painting, my w/wiper was busted on the rain, fire and many other extra affects were removed, there’s like 3 now where there were 20 or so before. I spent 2 hours just to get the damn cube to work where I never had a problem before. I thought compiz fusion would help, it’s broken.

3. user settings manager is completely stripped down. Yeah I need to be able to point and click to prevent Joe from using a usb drive. bring back that cool user manager app.

4. went to set my screensaver to flip through pictures of my daughter. wtf, it’s completely gone.

5. told that co-worker how easy it was to get themes and such just like in windows… wtf , it’s gone too. we have a choice of 4 themes. brilliant.

6. gufw , looks like crap now.

7. broadcom drivers missing had to install packages to fix. somehow the wireless driver seemed to work during install though.

8. power settings stripped down.

9. synaptic pkg manager. yeap, we like it.

10. banshee is not working well, turns gray and locks up, I have a quad core / 4gb ram.   I liked rythem box.
same hardware has worked trouble free in other ubuntu versions.

11. online accounts – what is it ? ok, account type can be google. only google. huh. where in the world wide web did I create that account. Oh yeah, it was GOOGLE. LOL.

12. help me out folks….
- http://software.xfx.net Xavier Flix
  
  Yep… you pretty much nailed it.
  
  I specially liked this part:
  
  “…we, the people making up that ring which is your logo…”
  
  Well, I don’t really care anymore — since the day of this post I haven’t used Linux again.
- http://www.facebook.com/allan202 Allan Sheldrake
  
  well it wiped out linux ya cant download that anymore with out paying for it i loved linux
http://software.xfx.net Xavier Flix

Yep… you pretty much nailed it.

I specially liked this part:
“…we, the people making up that ring which is your logo…”

Well, I don’t really care anymore — since the day of this post I haven’t used Linux again.
Callme Shane

After praying to the one eyed god for a long time, I was an early adopter – anything to get away from Microsoft and their bullshit naziware and when Ubuntu finally became practical instead of a programming lesson – just to install, I came on board full time with it.

Have been using it for a long time – but when 11.10 came on the scene I just clicked that this is a fucking bullshit trip.

An OS is just a tool to facilitate me transforming my ideas into practical results – nothing more, and in fact the less “glossy fuckwit interface” it is, the better it becomes and vis versa.

So I switched to Xubuntu – an Xfce version of it and with lots of downloads etc, it’s fucking brilliant.

Kind of like Windoze 3.11 – it’s just a functional adjustable interface, and it’s simple, it’s just menus and functions and results….

So yeah go for the Xubuntu version – it’s what you want if you want to work for a living instead of being distracted by stupid shit for stupid people by stupid people.

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001961161365 Dalton Cash Cullison

1313564657483564.354135664 agree i hate it so much that i want to run it over with a car
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001961161365 Dalton Cash Cullison

i like microsoft better
fintel

Every release just gets worse and worse. I can’t stand it anymore. At work my deadlines keep getting missed because ubuntu decides in the spirit of the moment to update something that ends up breaking it instead. FUCK YOU UBUNTU and hello MAC.
- http://software.xfx.net Xavier Flix
  
  I feel your frustration and, honestly, at this moment, I’m not sure what OS I’ll be using next year.
  
  Windows Dumb (aka 8)? Don’t think so.
  Linux-based distro? Probably, but which one?
  MacOS? err… no. Never.
  
  I guess I’ll have to stick to Win7 until it becomes obsolete.
  
  What the hell are these product managers thinking?
  OSs used to be exciting. Every updated brought new stuff, useful stuff.
  Nowadays, OSs seem to become more crippled as their version number increments.
- Gunnar Forsgren
  
  And this is exactly what the grand conspiracy is after accomplishing !! They managed to kill Ubuntu which was close to wipe out the competition. Now with the latest versions the performance is down to maybe 25% of what it used to be. God knows what the OS is occupied with doing these days. Some sleep statements I presume.
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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001961161365 Dalton Cash Cullison

i agree and also 12.04 it will keep freezing i tell my dad we should go back to windows 7 or xp
http://www.facebook.com/anandwpps Anand AH

1000% agreed

Trying to install wine since last week

shit says waiting for jockey backend to exit. and it may take a millenia for that FREAKIN JOCKEY_BACKEND to exit
Ashiqur Rahman Ashik

I am from Bangladesh and was a good fan of Ubuntu. But it’s too bad what they have don to the distro. I hate ubuntu 12.04 It’s completely bull shit. You know i can not use my favorite rgba transparency, compiz fusion & emerald theme. I am trying to go back to my ubuntu 8.04 version. Unity is also irritating. They made us slow and it sometimes more irritating when want to open same window like home twice. Hate for this bad ubuntu.
http://www.facebook.com/steve.mcgarry.71 Steve McGarry

This is the love child of Windows Vista and the iPhone.. Absolute shit.. No, not “the shit”.. just shit.

It takes several minutes to just open a program, when before it was on the top menu, all handy.. Maybe I could complain about more stuff if it didn’t take so long just to switch between applications.
http://software.xfx.net Xavier Flix

And the plot thickens…
http://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-with-pure-gnome-experience-coming
http://www.facebook.com/kmhaga Kwezi ‘qazo’ Mhaga

thank you! Finally someone that shares the same peice. My modem only works on windows so, basically have no internet conection when i boot ubuntu, so i can’t install g++ and the other guys… I downloaded the precise liveDVD since i thought it was a workaround to getting most building tools, that makes sence, right? But to my dissapointment… I think im heading over to greener pastures, im thinking of giving slackware a chance, any comments on that?
- http://software.xfx.net Xavier Flix
  
  I haven’t tried Slackware.
  Since I need a Linux distro that can fully support Mono and MonoDevelop I’ve decided to go for openSUSE.
  It sucks in many aspects but, at least, Mono and fully supported and I can work on my cross-platforms projects.
PISSED OFF TECHIE

Hell yes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNITY IS THE STUPIDEST PILE OF FUCKING SHIT I’VE EVER SEEN IN THE COMPUTING WORLD !!! I want to find the idiots that developed it and break their fingers !
Thanks a ton now I have to find a new OS to put on my customers computers , your actually costing me money!
Do you really think I would donate money to you ?!
Yeah right !
http://www.bestbackgroundchecks.com/ Dave Jordan

This is old, but what the hell. I just installed Ubuntu on a laptop to try it and to avoid buying W7. It worked well for about a month, but now I’m getting the F^&KING screen flicker and can’t fix the F*$KING thing. I’m a newbie and don’t know jack about Ubuntu, and this issue is driving me NUTS. Guess there’s a reason it’s going to remain about as obscure as an honest politician.
http://www.facebook.com/elphias.knightengale Elphias Knightengale

odd that you all have negitve things to say about ubuntu, i use 12.04 and have no problems at all, i even have all the orginal ubuntu screensavers installed, and unity is totally customizable, i’ve watched ubuntu grow from a os that could bearly surf the net to something that i am proud to run on my $1,300 laptop. on top of that my customers LOVE it. so i really don’t see why you all hate it so much, if you can’t figure out how to run it, then i ask, who is the idiot?
- http://software.xfx.net Xavier Flix
  
  The fact that you can customize it to fit your needs is, indeed, a great thing.
  
  But, the main problem is that, out of the box, recent versions of Ubuntu seem to be targeted to “normal” users, which is fine, but doing so Canonical has butchered all the things that made it so popular among Linux enthusiast as most of the people who have posted their comments on this blog.
  
  Why do you think Linux Mint is gaining so much momentum?
  Mainly because:
  
  - It is based on Ubuntu, so it’s a proven great platform and provides access to the huge Ubuntu/Debian apps ecosystem.
  
  - It ditches Gnome3 and that Unity madness in favor of lighter UI stacks.
  
  - The community around Mint hasn’t had the time to grow arrogant as the surrounding Ubuntu’s.
  
  - And, overall, it provides that great out of the box experience that you used to get with older releases of Ubuntu.
  
  I understand the now-a-days need to dumb-down operating systems in order to attract new users — but I refuse to take that argument as an excuse to remove, change and just murder the parts of the operating system that helped it become an important contender in OS market-share.
Phill

I agree, and Ubuntu 12.04 is even more worthless. I upgraded from 10.10, and it broke my video, X Windows, and sound drivers…….
http://www.facebook.com/aston.villa.908 Aston Villa

Let me put this in a very polite way:

I really really tried getting used to Unity, but there are no ways of continuing so. The global menu bar is a joke: shouldn’t it behave just like the OSX bar? Why can’t I see the menus at all times while I am in the application? Crap. This is just crap.

I don’t know WHO is the person behind this, but this NAMELESS person must be thinking is above truth and knowledge, which he’s probably not. And I’d like to point out that no human being is immortal, we should not take decisions as If we going to stay around forever, because life might surprises us.
- http://software.xfx.net Xavier Flix
  
  Very well put sir. Very well put!
Emmanuel Reynoso

Honestly, whenever I install ubuntu it’s 10.04 LTS for me
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mickrussom

Ubuntu is garbage. Its a messy dump, it changes all the time, they have ADD ADHD, they eliminate well known wats of doing things in favor of new ways without documenting them, canonical is a dumb cancer loser dump. Ubuntu in production stinks, the packaging actually sucks, the updating is ruthless, 1gB per motnh, its unstable, stupid , breaks ancient workflows, its bloated, and simple things like vmwaretools barely work. The canonical people are scum, they make a mess, break things, support is laughable, and this is the worst direction linux can go in. Developers used to be humble and keep the way things were and are and build around stuff that works.

Now the clowns break everything and before they fix their new bastard child they move on calling anything over 6 months old old junk.

Meanwhile mainframes run in production for 15+ years without a peep.

So much for these clowns.
- http://software.xfx.net Xavier Flix
  
  Ok, now take a deep breath and… breath…
Ace Ginger

I’ve only been a user of ubuntu for about a year, and only from 10.04 and above, and I recognize that unity essentially ruins the operating system. My favorite distro 10.10 has now of course been killed, which makes it impossible for me to download software. I was willing to give unity a try for about 3 days before i cracked. I was willing to try to work around unity with things like MATE for about 2 weeks, I was willing to keep using ubuntu 10.10 despite that I cant get anything new with it for about a month and a half. I have gone back to windows 7, and I really hope that canonical realizes that this will kill ubuntu. AND IF THEY MUST INSIST ON UNITY, then even still they could make compatibility options for gnome 2 and the old way. In the settings you could just open up a manager, change the settings to gnome 2, and just get on with life. That seems to me the best way to do it. Since most people who like unity are the non-advanced users, then maybe canonical could make unity the default. But my lord, there absolutely must be gnome 2 support or I will slander the idiots who make the crap and will refuse to acknowledge ubuntu as a viable os until they do so.
http://www.facebook.com/allan202 Allan Sheldrake

i am with you brother i fucking hate ubuntu i had to install it because my windows shat it self now and i have trieds to repaire it but i am having a fucking hard time trying to download anything or install anyhting ie like a simple fucking programme because it dont reconise any .exe files what the fuck
sibu

Wow. I just read this article (can be found by searching f*** you ubuntu and I realized that Ubuntu’s development has gone wrong since 11.04, when they started with Unity. But I didn’t realize it until now, when Canonical announced Mir.
Ubuntu can fuck off

FUCK THE UNITY interface. So long old friend ubuntu is in the trash
Ubuntu can fuck off

please please let me find the shit eating fucktard that decided on unity interface so i can kill them and all their entire shit eating family
Ubuntu can fuck off

ubuntu commited suicide with that unity thing…what a piece of trash
Ubuntu can fuck off

thanks ubuntu for setting back the linux community decades by adding that shit piece unity shit
- http://software.xfx.net Xavier Flix
  
  Breath brother… breath…
Georgee

Ubuntu is the worst fucking OS ever! Unstable, unusable, slow, stupid, ugly (not so much), after halve an hour bus error! What the fuck, not enough memory, why does the stupid system doesnt use swap?? Worst system since windows millenium!!
TJ

Well,

It has been 40 minutes – Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop – I’ve only managed to click on the fucking “Software Center” – by holding the mouse button down for roughly 15 seconds.

I have given up attempting to disable any advanced graphics effects – because of my inability to successfully navigate further than the “System Settings” screen.

The mouse cursor jumps from location to location in a lagged time warped effect, with no apparent mathematical relation or function between user input and time.

I’ve resorted to walking across the street and buying a beer, came back and started drinking, to find the system preferences window open, for no apparent reason.

As I start drinking I Google (on my Ubuntu 8.04 machine – no, I will NEVER upgrade) for “Fuck Unity is Slow”. I come across this post. I start typing.

The sad Unity computer is calculating the circumference of all the stars in the galaxy, and every few minutes the screen flickers and another window briefly appears.

The Software Center opens up – pretty stars of rated apps appears.

And the whole window disappears.

And the wait continues.

Fuck you, fuck you Ubuntu Unity.

How in the Fucking Hell, The Fucking Stars and Fucking Earth, do you come up with a Fucking Idea of a Fucking Operating System with a such a Fucking Bullshit Interf.. – hang on – Is there maybe a better, more powerful and fantastic word to describe the utterly fucking insane piece of shit called Unity?

Here are my attempts:

nope – no words come to mind
http://www.facebook.com/people/Carl-Belken/100000504381401 Carl Belken

I just plain old dont like it myself. Yes it’s free, yes it has saved me money but it did not even let me finish my rant here without kicking me totally off the page
kumpa

fuck this ubuntu shit, just installed 13.10 and nothing that wasn’t removed by fucking canonical DOESN’T FUCKING WORK !!!! IDIOTS !!!!!!!!!
Eddie

Release after release they just keep breaking stuff that used to work. They even broke the Memtest86+ provided in 12.10 isos. Hibernate? Gone. Official response is to switch it off because it’s too hard to fix. Right, so that makes my UPS redundant. Fools. Too many windows developers jumped the fence? I think the dev pool needs some chlorine.
http://twitter.com/ballmersucks Ernst Lindenberg

Hah hah hah! Oh Yes. I realized immeadiately 3 years ago that Linux Mint is much, much more user friendly than this Canonical hodge-podge. If Ubuntu were same as Linux we would be in big trouble, but glad there are lots of better choice for those who wanna use Linux-pc.