On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:48:56AM -0700, Michael Butash wrote: > I'm curious to see if it's as broken as ubuntu seems to be these > days - feedback from adopters here appreciated. > > I spent 3 days last week trying to get ubuntu working with 13.10 on > a fresh install, and since they're forcing use of a desktop cd, and > not producing alt installs now, found the install process to be > entirely broken. A new laptop with only EFI boot apparently leaves > me few options for distributions, namely excluding debian which I > was going to attempt to migrate to avoid ubuntu's steady decline in > quality/stability. Hopefully Valve heads this off using the > Ubuntu/Debian base. > > I spent the weekend attempting to abandon Ubuntu and learning Arch > (or trying to) after the ubuntu fail, which wasn't exactly easy, and > simply finding just about every step requires some extensive > research of packages, lack of automagical setup, and sadly most any > ease found in Ubuntu I've apparently taken for granted. Not to > mention I'm not finding pacman packages for most things I need/want > (doubt Steam is going to be supported on Arch anytime soon). > > Maybe Valve injecting their two bits around Debian too will help > that, but I doubt it'll support more enterprise-y features like > raid, encryption, and lvm as part of the install features I need. > Then again, I wish Ubuntu would just put it back said features or > produce an alt cd again including them natively until someone fixes > their broken desktop installer.
Pardon the stupid question but why couldn't you disable uefi/secure boot in your bios? What laptop is it? -- Bob Holtzman Your mail is being read by tight lipped NSA agents who fail to see humor in Doctor Strangelove Key ID 8D549279
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