It's problem after problem...for the first year I have no problems, I wonder if I should go back to 7.10

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

Dear friends, sorry to say but I agree completely with question >94265< above. I'm using Ubuntu a little longer than him (from 6.06) but that doesn't change much. With 9.04 started the problems: evolution started to crash on my PC (the old one and the new Fujitsu/Siemens too. At last every second day. The installations on Skype were often deleted from one day to the other and many more smaller problems. Now on my laptop Lenovo (bought in May) I installed 9.04. Here evolution was quite stable and there were only smaller problems. Well until yesterday: I upgraded to 9.10. A complete catastrophe. Firefox, evolution, home, documents - everything takes a lot of time to show up or to disappear. A lot of applications just disappeared and the worst: no voice, nowhere and I can't find the reason or a method to restore. No way. This I have never experienced - neither with windows nor with Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu whatever. How can a OS start with no audio and deleting the existing one? It's beyond my fantasy.
And as the above mentioned friend says: I am working WITH the OS and don't want to work on the OS. And then you have simply not the time to study thousands of pages to get something to work as actionsnip proposes. Well now this guy is going back to Bill Gates. This I will never do but it's understandable. Because the support for Linux in general is very very bad. I had for a time LTS and it did not work either. It' s not that Linux does not have splendid experts. They have plenty. But because the great majority is very arrogant. They explain things that nobody can understand except their likes. They get crazy if people ask dumb questions and then they give a damn in them. And that's a pity. Therefore a lot of people are leaving Linux for good.
Well if you don't my well-intended critic - you have a basket. Otherwise I would really appreciate to get to know how to activate my audio. with best regards.

I'd say not if you read the solved questions on here, you could also join irc.freenode.net and join the official channel #ubuntu to see the live support the community gives

If you don't like ubuntu then all is not lost, there are millions of OTHER distributions. Ubuntu is not the ONLY linux distribution ever made and there are many more which are older and more mature. Ubuntu is by far the best distribution in many ways, but in some way it thrives. Just because it does not suit your needs does not make it poor and the support I have given as well as all the other nicks/handles I can easily name do very well to support new users. Other distributions have their own issues too but they may fall outside of your user scope. I personally had no end of issues with windows 2000 randomly blue screening on me despite 2 SOLID YEARS of effort so I threw it in and move to linux, XP will not run on my systems due to bloat but my needs fit Linux so very well and its free so I use linux. Windows has its shortfalls too, every OS sucks, just in different ways. I have asked in ##windows on freenode and got remarks like "why don't you get a better computer" or "your system sucks" when I was asking a simple question regarding MS Office which is totally uncalled for (as you have experienced with Ubuntu). It depends puely whom you interact with but that is just life in general.

I'm sure you have used Windows for a LONG while and know its ins and outs. You simply cannot compare this experience and closed mindset to a few months with Linux. Its a very different system and unfortunately you will need to learn a small amount of system stuff to make your life a LOT easier. As you are simply unwilling to put in this small effort you will fall short. Just like I threw in Vista after it took me 2 solid hours to change my pagefile and install sound drivers on a system which works fine in widows 2000 and any Linux you care to name.

I like Ubuntu in many ways and as I wrote I had some experience with other Linux distros too. And with Ubuntu not only months but years (as I wrote from version 6.06). And on this laptop there was Vista pre-installed and I left it for some time because I had a friend here who did not know anything on Ubuntu. But as soon as she had gone Vista had to go too. Horrible.
Well with Ubuntu I read user manuals and spent days with fixing problems. I complained that the language in the manuals and the forums is mostly uncomprehensible.
And now on my question why the heck I don't have audio after a simple upgrading you don't have an answer.
Besides changing to another version brings with it other problems - as you said.

I was going to leave it at that, but seems Einar put in his 2 cents, I'll add to it. Yes, of course I know windows better, but I don't know how to "change my pagefile" in Windows. Never need to it. Yes Windows sucks, but by comparsion after using Linux for about 2 years, well it's a close race. Of course Linux wins because it's free, but it is not user friendly for those who don't have time and only have limited talent in computer functions. I'm going back to windows xp because I just don't have the time to keep messing with Linux. Actionparsnip I'm sure you didn't forget me, and the 2 weeks....2 weeks, trying to get my graphics working, and we never fixed...I take the blame. I never spent 2 weeks on any computer problem before that, and never will.