Obsolete Your Idols

So I upgraded the two laptops I use to Ubuntu 8.10 which has the friendly name of Intrepid Ibex.  Bold sounding, adventurous, able to scale and bound around on mountains.  One the laptop where I have a variant configuration (using ion3 instead of GNOME, for example) it hasn’t been a big difference.  Everything works at least as well as it did before, and it even seems more robust under some previously challenging load conditions.

The other laptop, the one with a totally default configuration, has been a big pain.  Wireless, never very reliable on it, has completely become unusable and I spent hours yesterday trying to uncover why.  The keyboard became bizarre and the perfectly functional set up under 8.04 required lots of Keyboard Layout fiddling to find something, anything, which would let me use anything more arcane than letters, shifted letters, and the control and enter keys in 8.10.  All of which has me thinking of things which might have been better names for 8.10.

• Irritating Insect
• Inconsistent Parakeet
• Incontinent Iguana
• Inauspicious Inchworm

Yeah, this is just noise.  I’ll keep using Ubuntu, I’m just annoyed at the number of regressions my laptop suffered by upgrading which I’ll have to spend time fixing because they’re core functionalities I actually use like, oh, having a network connection.  Or, you know, typing.

Tags: annoyed, ubuntu

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