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[takeiteasy]

Debian founder Ian Murdock dead. He deserves more credits along with Dennis Ritchie et al instead of Business tycoons like Bill Gates/Steve Jobs. He is credited for the Debian system including social contract. Ubuntu and many popular derivatives all evolved from Debian.
Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42 | Ars Technica

 

[Zibago]

Debian founder Ian Murdock dead. He deserves more credits along with Dennis Ritchie et al instead of Business tycoons like Bill Gates/Steve Jobs. He is credited for the Debian system including social contract. Ubuntu and many popular derivatives all evolved from Debian.
Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42 | Ars Technica

Rip

Yes, the problem with Linux is that, this will not be a desktop friendly OS ever given the way, Linux is becoming a favourite server/embedded OS. As with Open Source software, the developers wants user like you to figure out how to report the problems to the redhat/fedora bug tracking system along with a backtrace. 1/100000 users will ever try that. Rather, those who have enough time to waste will try to find what will be the causing problems by googling for similar error messages or look at /var/log for clues.

tl;dr: It is good to choose a OS that is working without the need for support everytime a problem appears.

On topic: there's a replacement for network manager - wicd - download

For desktop use you should try zorin

 

[cnleio]

Im using Ubuntu-15.04

 

[Sneaker]

Im using Ubuntu-15.04

Windows running VM? Why?

 

[cnleio]

Windows running VM? Why?

Some specialty softwares / tools only running on Windows ... and i just use the Linux to program codes for embeded system develop, not play it just for work.

I installed the vmware-tool in Ubuntu-15.04 ... Windows and Ubuntu can share the document,easily copy files between two OS.

 

[takeiteasy]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/21/ubuntu_lenovo_bios/
This bug: https://bugs.launchpadnet/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147
^ has rendered many laptops useless. "bricked" the laptops as they say. But, luckily can be restored with newer kernels.
https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-17-10-bios-bug/

Along with this, though offtopic, vulnerabilities in Intel Management Engine and possibility of it as a backdoor by NSA and such agencies got revealed.AMD isn't any better, it also has IME like hardware implementation to help government agencies to snoop:
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story...-security-bug-in-amds-sps-secret-chip-on-chip


Then, the Intel processor's spectre, meltdown vulnerabilities and the impact of 30% or higher performance slow down when fixes are implemented.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/201...e-and-meltdown-patches-will-hurt-performance/

^^ This should be big news, but it has not even made headlines internationally! - Intel's power :/
Time to think - buy more AMD's or ARMs based systems than Intel.