I have been a long time user of ubuntu. It all started roughly some 10 years ago, one of my friends ordered the free CD from ubuntu to bangalore. The CD in our possession we went about installing "ubuntu" on the system we had. It was not as simple as it is now and I enjoyed pulling the partition apart from windows. I remember we had the ext2 system and we had to set the swap and boot space manually according to the RAM I had on my system (twice the RAM). Ubuntu was the lesser known OS and I was happy twiddling with its knobs while using fedora for most of my work. (I also played with suse, debian and mandrake. Gentoo was the uber cool linux then, and having a successful gentoo gave you bragging rights)
Since that eventful day I had been using ubuntu and fedora in conjunction. Over the last few years ubuntu's proliferation into the mainstream has led me to use only ubuntu, devoid of any flavors. (Also the fact that I have lesser free time and have been losing my patience with OS installs) Over the last year canonical has gone evil. It started with ports which only support unity (no more gnome by default), I was surviving that with some ease (I am a fairly adaptable creature) but then they went around and removed GDM. Now unity just randomly shuts down on me. Its annoying as shit to setsid unity everyone couple of weeks.
I was perfectly alright with that, knowing the dev gods would fix and patch it soon. Now, its almost been 6 months and I'm agonized with this bug - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1063354. My first thought was an issue with the hdd (bad sectors) but a smart scan revealed nothing. I tried playing with some power settings and started shutting down my PC at night. I had even thought of replacing my 3 year old battered hard disk. It took me a while to figure out its not my hardware or my usage. It is an issue with the new kernel and ext4. This is also seen in other flavors of linux to my knowledge (needs support). This makes me think, maybe I should have left windows on for the rainy days. Although its a shitty software, windows lets me work in peace (apart from annoying pop-ups, random restarts and viruses) and I'm not wasting time and money trying to find fixes and replacing my hard disk.
Why ubuntu, why, have I not loved you enough?
