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Ubuntu Netbook Remix doesn’t “just work”
I’m five days into my trip around Thailand with the Acer Aspire One I purchased specially for the trip and upon which I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu Netbook Remix (Jaunty).
It’s been a pain in the arse the whole time.
These are the issues so far:
- No SD card automounting
- F-spot imports to $HOME instead of the Photos folder you specify
- ath5k driver is buggy (as we know) and filled /var/log with crap (hooray for partitioning forethought)
- Unison doesn’t sync vfat filesystems
- Can’t switch keyboard layouts
- Firefox bookmarks manager corrupts profile
Of course, all of these issues have either effective solutions or easy workarounds. But for joe user, or indeed linux-veteran-on-holiday, it’s not good enough.
A solid month’s use to iron out all the kinks before departing is recommended.