<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Very odd. I have installed kubuntu to many laptops, desktops etc, and only once had a minor problem (the refurbished laptop I bought had a bad battery). <br><br></div>Now, for graphics cards it has always been either INTEL or NVidia, I've never dealt with (nor want to) ATI. And I don't have the issue of having an INTEL/Nvidia where they switch.<br><br></div>Two of the laptops were designed to be linux friendly ( a dell with ubuntu preinstalled and the Zareason with kubuntu)<br><br></div>but others were old thinkpads, hp workstation laptops, old dell towers, ACER motherboards for desktops.<br><br></div>The best bet is to check out what hardware is in your desktop, there are definitely items that can make installing a pain, but even many of my students have installed ubuntu/kubuntu to their laptops with pretty good success (one had a major problem connecting to our WPA enterprise wifi system here, but that is probably the schools fault in setup).<br><br></div><div>I have occasionally had to go into the bios to turn off features for a desktop motherboard that I didn't need and were causing problems.<br></div>Phil W<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@butash.net" target="_blank">mike@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So yet another chapter of ubuntu-isms begins in my life, trying to install on my new desktop. Step 1 defeat, their server install won't even boot with a 16.04.1 server disk. Internal cdrom or external usb cdrom, no usb thumbdrive.<br>
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Then tried a 16.04.1 desktop installer for kubuntu, which got into setup, but proceeded to just lock up indefinitely at the drive setup screen, twice.<br>
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This is really why I have a hate/love relation with ubuntu, it never fails to disappoint. My road to 16.04 has been all upgrades so far, this time I'm using 16.04.1 cd's from scratch.<br>
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I really don't want to have to make a circle of distro's to end up back here again, but ubuntu is always so basically dysfunctional these days with the most basic things, it's hard to want to care.<br>
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I wonder how much others have seen this. This is with legacy boot in bios, no uefi crap, and just a basic d-i based ubuntu server install, and/or kubuntu.<br>
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-mb<br>
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