For two months, Eric (my bf) and I journeyed the world of Ubuntu. We had Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) running very nicely on our Dell Inspiron 530. We installed Compiz Fusion, Avant Window Navigator, WINE, and a lot of other fun stuff. And we (finally) managed to get Photoshop CS2 and Macromedia Studio 8 installed and running with WINE to do all of Eric's Web design/development work.We wish we could say that Ubuntu is the best alternative to Windows; sadly, it isn't. It took a LONG time to get all these programs running, and MANY sleepless nights of bug fixing. Hardly anything "just worked," as is claimed about Ubuntu, which was a surprise, since we bought it directly from Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed.
By the time the next release was available (Gutsy), we were excited, because it was supposed to have fixes for all the troubles we had come across in Feisty. On October 18, the day of its official release, we simply hit the upgrade button in the package manager. Sounded simple enough. After the upgrade, we rebooted--only to find that we no longer had audio (surprise, surprise!), and neither Compiz Fusion (which is installed by default in Gutsy) nor Avant Window Navigator worked any longer. So like everything else that went horribly wrong with Ubuntu, we prepared to spend hours camped next to our computer scouring the online forums. Then, oops
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