Ubuntu still not ready to replace my desktop
I've been using Ubuntu for the last couple of months, it still doesn't match the speed-of-use I get from my XP. Speed-of-use isn't always about raw speed of the software. Many times, there are simple UX pieces missing in the media players or GUI config tools which make you go to the command-line occasionally.
1. The default movie player (Totem using a gstreamer backend) is lackluster at best. Before you go ranting about proprietary file-formats, I'm talking about the UX. The "Preferences" doesn't have enough configurable settings, and I miss most of my settings from Windows Media Player. The progress-bar-thingy (that allows you to control playback position) doesn't work quite as smoothly as I'd like. And there's a whole lot of polish, options, configurations, etc. that it needs.
2. Ubuntu hangs quite frequently - more so than my XP box. I have to reboot it at least twice a day. Don't go telling me how I must have screwed up the configuration - to be fair, I only used the GUI utilities which are supposed to, by definition, guard me against incorrect configurations. Firefox is the biggest culprit here. It times it hangs, and then fails to restart unless I reboot. The desktop shell hangs too in which case I have to "ctrl+alt+backspace" to even be able to reboot the box.
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