I've literally put Ubuntu or one of it's variants on tens of thousands
of machines over the years, and only a couple of times have I run into a
machine that wouldn't boot and install. It usually came down to a weird
BIOS config where a setting that seemed like it shouldn't effect the
boot process did. I would call that a bug in the BIOS or in other words
a hardware issue and not something that was Ubuntu's fault.
The only other problem I've had, and it's also very rare is when the
machine had a video card that was incompatible with the opensource
driver, but it would be loaded anyway and either crash the system or be
too buggy to actually see a usable display. In those cases I would whip
out the server install CD and install it without problem. Then it was
only a matter of installing the proprietary driver directly and then
everything would work correctly after that.
Brian Cluff
On 11/02/2016 06:38 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> -mb
>
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