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Aug. 12th, 2007 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thedarkprojectYet again Linux is fucking me off royally. A few weeks ago I managed to finally build the driver for my onboard network adapter, and finally got online. Kubuntu went and updated everything, in much the same way Windows does. Except it upgraded the kernel so my network driver no longer works. And in trying to rebuild it, it fails, because it can't access certain code files which probably aren't on my system.
I was going to save the error messages and log into Windows so that I could post a request for help online, but my Windows drives are all formatted with NTFS, which means Kubuntu can't write anything to them. This pretty much makes having Linux useless to me unless I can figure a convenient way of converting the drive from NTFS to FAT32, or installing the slightly dodgy stuff for Ubuntu that makes NTFS writable. What a load of shit. But even then I still won't have a working net connection until I figure all the rest out.
Yes, I'm being a bit unreasonable, because I'm angry. I just wanted to do some coding but now I can't. The sad thing is that some people enjoy this kind of crap. I just want to use the damn computer, not reconstruct it.
I was going to save the error messages and log into Windows so that I could post a request for help online, but my Windows drives are all formatted with NTFS, which means Kubuntu can't write anything to them. This pretty much makes having Linux useless to me unless I can figure a convenient way of converting the drive from NTFS to FAT32, or installing the slightly dodgy stuff for Ubuntu that makes NTFS writable. What a load of shit. But even then I still won't have a working net connection until I figure all the rest out.
Yes, I'm being a bit unreasonable, because I'm angry. I just wanted to do some coding but now I can't. The sad thing is that some people enjoy this kind of crap. I just want to use the damn computer, not reconstruct it.
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Date: 2007-08-12 05:33 pm (UTC)It seems than when you upgrade Ubuntu, it seems to silently drop any kernel modules that aren't compatible with the new kernel. I can understand why they do this (not that it helps my reliability - [K]Ubuntu never boots up first time for me after an upgrade), but it's not rocket science to check the modules currently in use and warn the user that some of them are incompatible with the kernel it's about to install.
MacOS X does seem to have most of the best of both worlds, including a non-retarded community. (Some of the answers I've got from Linux people as to why their software does something retarded are, well, retarded. Which I suppose shouldn't surprise me.) But one reason I have Linux on here is because I work on server software that runs on remote Linux servers. It's not 100% platform independent so I really need to check it on the right platform. That's what I was hoping to work on today, until I ran into this week's set of issues.