Ubuntu-Unity Update-12.04-Warning for Oldies with Old Computers.
If you own an old computer and the graphic card is not NAVidea I have some bad news.
1. Do not think of installing Unity.
2. It is beautiful when booted up to RAM that is all one get.
3. It has inherited some Windows (98) problems.
4. It cannot distinguish from C drive to D drive.
5. It assumes you have a laptop and have only one hard disk.
6. If you install to the second drive it will assume that the other drive had to subjugate to Ubuntu and want boot up.
7. It does not even recognize even Windows operating system.
8. That is why I said it was like win 98 and imagine only one world and there no other computer world.
9. It does not recognize even native Linux distributions.
10. Its GRUB is the most horrible Grub I have ever used.
11. It hangs up in the last few minutes of installation.
Why I do not know?
12. If you install it without Internet connection it fails to finish updating and and hardware detection. If you connect the Internet it takes over 5 hours to finish downloading uploads.
I was lucky we were on holiday and home full of visitors.
I setup Ubuntu installation (my test computer) go and have a gala time with the visitors and come up to see whether it has finished but it never finish it for three attempts.
13. It does not give a running commentary or the reason for its failure.
14. Linux standard Ctl+ Alt + F1 to F6 never worked. It does not respond to Ctl+Alt+ delete too.
It is just like windows and just hang up.
No warning or any radical explanations.
15. As patient as I can be, I tried it for the fourth time and it completed installation.
But failed to boot up even though I dedicated Master Hard disk.
Finally I installed Pinguy 11.04 to get my system running and to test other distributions.
My computer is IBM Netvista in very good condition in spite of regular testing.
In fact I dismantled it and gave a thorough clean up and added two new DVDs and a new hard disk for testing during our new year.
So if you have an old computer and very impatient do not try Ubuntu. I tried the DVD version but the CD version did not give the above problems but failed to recognize windows and other Linux distribution when first booted up.
So my honeymoon with Unity ended abruptly and I hope they remedy these deficiencies sooner than late.
It is called L.T.S and they should withdraw that label till the patch work is done and GRUB is updated with stable script.
I am not going to write an update again for another six months.
I wish somebody do a thorough investigation of Unity Ubuntu.
I must tel you after 5 days I manged to download Linux Debian MATE / Cinnamon and would write about it when I have time.
It booted live but I did not install it due to my obsession with Ubuntu.
