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Posted by Ketara
Dec 28, 2009 0:12:04 GMT -5
Sound disables itself if the system is kept idle for two-three hours and can only be re-enabled on restart.

wine randomly does not work.

Closing wine bluescreens the system about 25% of the time.

wine randomly will freeze when starting a program, but continues to use the video card at an accelerating rate until the system overheats

Commercial DVDs do not work at all whatsoever

Fingerprint reader does not work

Integrated webcam does not work

Integrated microphone does not work

Microphone jack does not work

Cannot play a number of new games in wine, including but not limited to: Darkfall, Left4Dead, Medieval: Total War, or Dragon Age: Origins

Cannot find NES or Sega Genesis emulators with GUI support. I don't like programs that are only accessible via command line.

Cannot sync iPod touch without using virtualbox and seriously modifying it

Virtualbox is buggy, sometimes will not open at all

USB microphones do not work

Wireless card randomly stops working and requires restart

Needed to do a ridiculous roundabout fix for my Atheros wifi card.

Keyboard will randomly fail entirely and requires restart

Numpad on keyboard randomly will not work on boot and requires restart
Posted by Ketara
Dec 28, 2009 0:21:22 GMT -5
Keyboard will randomly lock up for a second or two and then type one letter 10-20 times.

Pidgin: Yahoo Messenger does not work

Pidgin: file transfers do not work in MSN

Pidgin: Cannot see display pictures in MSN, MSN people cannot see my display picture

Pidgin: Randomly crashes when in a multi-person MSN chatroom
Posted by Zero
Dec 28, 2009 3:37:18 GMT -5
...Why not use something different then? lol
Posted by braddigan
Dec 28, 2009 3:38:55 GMT -5
Dragon Age Origins should have it's own entry.
Posted by latooni
Dec 28, 2009 16:54:15 GMT -5
This is why I will never use Linux without setting up a dualboot system.
Posted by Draco
Dec 28, 2009 17:50:28 GMT -5
ITT: Ketara should get Windows 7. :B
Posted by Anastasia
Dec 29, 2009 19:38:13 GMT -5
Set up a dual boot either way! Who knows when your system will start hating you.

And yeah... I probably would have given up on Linux or at least Ubuntu with that many problems. I say almost because I'm pretty stubborn when it comes to tinkering and fixing things. I usually don't give up unless I really have to. And because I'm not always sane. A sane person wouldn't get so obsessed about fixing things.
Posted by Daren
Dec 29, 2009 23:20:43 GMT -5
So the point of this thread is that Anastasia is crazy?