Re: Which Linux

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 > From: "Mark ikswotulp" <http://www.gmail.com/~mark.ikswotulp>
 > Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:50:47 -0700
 >
 > Cool, thanks.  What are the limitations of Ubuntu?

Well, I've run into several hardware problems with my laptop:

1) The external keyboard and mouse sometimes just freeze; sometimes if one
   or the other locks up, I can unfreeze it moving it or typing.
2) The external display won't go into stand-by mode, so I must shut it off
   by hand.

Other software-y problems:

3) I haven't found a way to disable storing stuff in the Sent folder in
   Evolution (the default mailer).
4) I cannot customize the cursor color in gnome-terminal.

There was a Wall Street Journal opinion page about Ubuntu:

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118963540721725614-FnJzx_wcNlkRFOef4cgq74PBW3g_20080912.html

which describes some other problems.  I hardly use the multimedia
features, so I don't really notice these problems.