Greetings people,
As many others did I also decided to try Linux and I have some thoughts to share and questions to ask. First I will describe my three weeks on Ubuntu.
A few weeks ago, I decided to buy a new computer. It’s laptop ASUS K401UQ-FR008D which had no preinstalled OS. I’ve alway been curious about Linux systems so I decided not to buy Windows and instead chose Ubuntu because I read that it’s one of the best systems for unexperienced users on Linux. I’m not disappointed, for ubuntu is free, easy to use, quite fast and I find its design quite fancy.
But I’m experiencing some stability issues. Sometimes the whole system just freeze and I can’t do anything else but restart it manually.
The second issue is impossibility of shutting computer down using software. Usually I just close the laptop and that suspends the system without problem but when I know I’m not going to use my computer for longer period of time I feel like it’s better to shut it down completely so I click on “Shut down” button and UI disappears but the desktop background stays on. Forever. Well probably, I kept it on like fifteen minutes before I shut it down manually.
Just a few minutes ago occured another error. I woke my laptop up from suspend and previous user was still logged in and system waiting for password, I needed my account so I clicked on the menu in right upper corner and clicked on my account name. First nothing happened at all so I clicked on “Lock/Swich account” and then the system crashed. Display went black and some errors text was rolling up. Again I had to restart it manually because I couldn’t find any other way how to stop the error text rolling and go back to desktop.
The thing is these errors are occurring to often to ignore them. Windows isn’t errorless but I had the same number of errors on Ubuntu in past three weeks like on Windows in past three years.
So my questions are: are these and other errors happening so often to you too? Is it normal for Ubuntu? Is it normal for Linux itself? If it’s just Ubuntu thing, can you recommend me a different distro where I could have a better luck with avoiding such errors? Maybe Linux Mint? Or something else?
I will appreciate any advice.
PS My system is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
As many others did I also decided to try Linux and I have some thoughts to share and questions to ask. First I will describe my three weeks on Ubuntu.
A few weeks ago, I decided to buy a new computer. It’s laptop ASUS K401UQ-FR008D which had no preinstalled OS. I’ve alway been curious about Linux systems so I decided not to buy Windows and instead chose Ubuntu because I read that it’s one of the best systems for unexperienced users on Linux. I’m not disappointed, for ubuntu is free, easy to use, quite fast and I find its design quite fancy.
But I’m experiencing some stability issues. Sometimes the whole system just freeze and I can’t do anything else but restart it manually.
The second issue is impossibility of shutting computer down using software. Usually I just close the laptop and that suspends the system without problem but when I know I’m not going to use my computer for longer period of time I feel like it’s better to shut it down completely so I click on “Shut down” button and UI disappears but the desktop background stays on. Forever. Well probably, I kept it on like fifteen minutes before I shut it down manually.
Just a few minutes ago occured another error. I woke my laptop up from suspend and previous user was still logged in and system waiting for password, I needed my account so I clicked on the menu in right upper corner and clicked on my account name. First nothing happened at all so I clicked on “Lock/Swich account” and then the system crashed. Display went black and some errors text was rolling up. Again I had to restart it manually because I couldn’t find any other way how to stop the error text rolling and go back to desktop.
The thing is these errors are occurring to often to ignore them. Windows isn’t errorless but I had the same number of errors on Ubuntu in past three weeks like on Windows in past three years.
So my questions are: are these and other errors happening so often to you too? Is it normal for Ubuntu? Is it normal for Linux itself? If it’s just Ubuntu thing, can you recommend me a different distro where I could have a better luck with avoiding such errors? Maybe Linux Mint? Or something else?
I will appreciate any advice.
PS My system is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS