Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" my 64bit experince

Well Canonical made another great OS that gets the job done and looks great. The Price can't be beat it's got a complete Office Suite for students or even business with Open Office. Craploads of Free games, but most of all it has Internet access that just works. The Driver models really seem universal and just work.

Unfortunately it still has the same damned basic fatal flaw that every Linux OS has. Making it work "to it's potential" is still a Hobby, it dosn't "Just Work." I was setting up the Dual Monitors and realized that it's not intuitive and frankly the method for making Dual Monitors work is a work around/Hack that I honestly don't think the average user would figure out. First you have allow the "Proprietary Drivers" and then you have to mess with the NVIDIA X-Server program by editing it in the freaking terminal, and the way they put allowing propriety drivers comes across like they're talking down at you like a bunch of elitist assholes, "Oh your going to use those corporate whores drivers." Don't be mad at me that's the way it comes across. Making it work was a royal pain in the ass to figure out, it requires ass loads of research or just grabbing one of the Linux Guru's to walk you through it. In my case I'm in it for the challenge so I went through the work of figuring it out but looking back on it while it was a great troubleshooting experience for me it's a very poor user experience. I'm also running the 64bit version of the new Ubuntu and was a little bummed to discover that the Adobe Flash equivalents in 64bit are still buggy as hell but there has been a slight improvement, sort of. They apparently removed the controls for watching flash video so you can watch it without crashing but now there is no pause, fast forward, volume change, ect.

All in all, it seems as solid, awesome, and bad as Ubuntu 8.10 now that I think about it in fact I'm not noticing much difference. The changes must be deep under the hood because I haven't noticed anything really different yet. To A point Ubuntu is still a Hobby not an OS that can be recommended professionally. In the hands of a nerd it's a great alternative, for the average user, it feels like it's ruined by the poor hand off of the proprietary drivers, that part actually has made several people I know who tried it quit.

EDIT: Wow suddenly one of my big gripes as a hobby OS went away. The Flash Video suddenly started working correctly and really seems a lot more stable. And WinE (the Windows Emulator) does seem to work a lot better. That could be potentially game changing if they can get the propietary games to work somewhat fluently.

Just did another reinstall of Ubuntu. Fixed a problem I was having with the Compiz Fusion but now I can't get the Nvidia X-ServerConfig to save the file for some reason. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1308868

EDIT: Well I guess I spoke too soon. It's been a few days and flash is just starting to stutter like it used too. Thinking maybe I'll try the 32bit version next week sometime.