So... I was using Ubuntu 14.10 with my Acer Aspire E 14 laptop and I encountered these three bugs:
1. Ubuntu sometimes couldn't boot. This is not to be confused with the other booting problem(s) where Ubuntu cannot boot at all. Mine was unpredictable: sometimes it booted, but about half to four-fifth of the time my laptop would only display a black screen with a typing-cursor blinking. This happened after GRUB, after you select which OS to boot. When this happened, my only option was to force-power off the laptop and start it all over again, hoping for the half to one-fifth chance that Ubuntu would boot normally.
I do know that some other people have encountered this problem of mine and I saw their posts asking for help, but I found that they got none. The thing is, I guess, this problem was almost always confused with the other booting problem(s) that had something to do with graphics card. Mine, I think, had something to do with GNOME.
2. Ubuntu couldn't power off the laptop. When I shutdown my laptop, Ubuntu would only halt all the processes, but it couldn't power off the laptop so I had to force power off it manually. It was safe, though, since no more proecesses were going, but this still posed a problem: it could neither restart nor hibernate properly.
3. I couldn't right-click with my touchpad, so I had to always use a mouse. It's not the hardware--I tried testing my touchpad settings and when I clicked the button that was supposed to make a right-click, it was read as a left click. I also tried to check the left-handed option where the buttons were inverted and so a right-click would be the primary click, but still I couldn't make a secondary click by clicking the left button of my touchpad. In short, both the left and right buttons of my touchpad were read as primary buttons.
Yesterday I switched to Debian GNOME. The three bugs were gone, but GNOME 3 couldn't load either so the desktop was replaced by something that I guess was GNOME Classic. (I am quite sure that if GNOME 3 could load on my Debian, the three bugs would have manifested themselves again.) Then I switched to Debian KDE. Everything was fine, but I didn't know how to set up my internet on Debian (and lack of internet connection was crippling) so I instantly switched to Fedora, with which I am writing this post right now.
Yet, Fedora uses GNOME 3, and I find the bugs manifesting again, except bug number 1 (or perhaps it just hasn't begin occuring yet, since it occurs by the half to four-fifth chance).
I love Ubuntu more than I do Fedora, but I think I'm not going to switch back until I can certainly fix these problems (especially number 1) or until the bugs are fixed in a future release. So, I wonder if you have some solutions to these problems?
Oh, yea. Last thing, I'm a novice. I had used Ubuntu for some months, but I don't understand more complicated computing terms, so... please answer with simple words, would you?
Thanks!
1. Ubuntu sometimes couldn't boot. This is not to be confused with the other booting problem(s) where Ubuntu cannot boot at all. Mine was unpredictable: sometimes it booted, but about half to four-fifth of the time my laptop would only display a black screen with a typing-cursor blinking. This happened after GRUB, after you select which OS to boot. When this happened, my only option was to force-power off the laptop and start it all over again, hoping for the half to one-fifth chance that Ubuntu would boot normally.
I do know that some other people have encountered this problem of mine and I saw their posts asking for help, but I found that they got none. The thing is, I guess, this problem was almost always confused with the other booting problem(s) that had something to do with graphics card. Mine, I think, had something to do with GNOME.
2. Ubuntu couldn't power off the laptop. When I shutdown my laptop, Ubuntu would only halt all the processes, but it couldn't power off the laptop so I had to force power off it manually. It was safe, though, since no more proecesses were going, but this still posed a problem: it could neither restart nor hibernate properly.
3. I couldn't right-click with my touchpad, so I had to always use a mouse. It's not the hardware--I tried testing my touchpad settings and when I clicked the button that was supposed to make a right-click, it was read as a left click. I also tried to check the left-handed option where the buttons were inverted and so a right-click would be the primary click, but still I couldn't make a secondary click by clicking the left button of my touchpad. In short, both the left and right buttons of my touchpad were read as primary buttons.
Yesterday I switched to Debian GNOME. The three bugs were gone, but GNOME 3 couldn't load either so the desktop was replaced by something that I guess was GNOME Classic. (I am quite sure that if GNOME 3 could load on my Debian, the three bugs would have manifested themselves again.) Then I switched to Debian KDE. Everything was fine, but I didn't know how to set up my internet on Debian (and lack of internet connection was crippling) so I instantly switched to Fedora, with which I am writing this post right now.
Yet, Fedora uses GNOME 3, and I find the bugs manifesting again, except bug number 1 (or perhaps it just hasn't begin occuring yet, since it occurs by the half to four-fifth chance).
I love Ubuntu more than I do Fedora, but I think I'm not going to switch back until I can certainly fix these problems (especially number 1) or until the bugs are fixed in a future release. So, I wonder if you have some solutions to these problems?
Oh, yea. Last thing, I'm a novice. I had used Ubuntu for some months, but I don't understand more complicated computing terms, so... please answer with simple words, would you?
Thanks!
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