> If I wear my "dummy user hat" this is unacceptable, and I'm considering > ranting loud about general Ubuntu regressions at each and every new > version.
I just want to let you know that I feel much the same way. Well put! > > I've been a Linux user and supporter since 10+ years and sometimes a > little code contributor in the past. I'm now professionally managing > parks of Linux machines as well as advising non-I.T. friends and > relatives. > >>From both points of view it is completely unacceptable that when > performing a version upgrade, oh, graphics get broke on this machine, > sound is lost on that machine, fglrx driver doesn't exist anymore for > ATI cards, KDE SSL certs support has been broke for the whole KDE 4.x > branch and not fixed even if bugs reports have been made 10 months ago, > kernel is now compiled without USB_persist, WPA2 isn't supported anymore > in Jaunty, Xen Dom0 kernel is missing since Intrepid and on... > > What the fsck is going on ? > > A geek can live with that and spend 1 day trying to figure out ONE problem, > dig into a config file, read forums, recompile kernel on ONE machine when > upgrading, but how could a professional managing a park of machine stand to > live with that at each upgrade ? > How could a professional tolerate that SSL certs support suddently disappears > between KDE 3.x and 4.x and nothing is done in 10 months to fix it ? > And how could non-I.T. more or less clueless beginner users (at whom Ubuntu > also aims) find acceptable losing sound or graphics and having no clue when > they upgrade ? > > I don't know what Ubuntu's doing but I'm starting to get really really > angry at it generally speaking... I had to state it somewhere, now it's > done in that bug report :-( > > Except for unforeseen and unpredictable bugs, a version upgrade should > never break anything that used to work, or something is seriously broke > with the project management, period. > -- [i945] (Needs UXA) Kubuntu Jaunty Intel 945 GM - Poor sluggish graphics performance in Kate text, etc. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/342923 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
