On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 12:05:41PM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:01 PM, AG Restringere > Since when did Nvidia stop offering the latest downloads via their > website? Or is this just an excuse for you to continue to be lazy > instead of downloading the source and compiling it yourself? Do you
I don't think that's fair. Here we have someone coming forward, identifying a specific issue and offering help to fix the issue in a PPA for everyone, and you're rejecting it because he's "lazy"? The point of Ubuntu is to make things easy for everyone. I don't want to have to get the latest downloads and compile them myself. I want to click through the installer and have everything Just Work. Even though I am capable of doing things myself, I'd prefer to focus on the problems I want to use my computer to solve, instead of having to do every little thing myself. In Ubuntu, we've always had a focus on giving people a great out-of-the-box experience. I'm sure that improving driver availability and helping to make sure that it is up-to-date falls into this. AGS: I don't think Jordan's view represents the majority of Ubuntu users and developers. Thank you for your offer to contribute. I regret that I can't help directly myself, since I'm not familiar with Nvidia graphics and drivers at all. But it's great to see your offer for help, and I encourage you to persevere. All contributions that improve matters are welcome. Timo's comment in the bug seems to have a valid point, which is that two weeks is perhaps a bit too soon to expect other contributors to have updated drivers for you. But if you could package something newer in a PPA on a faster cadence, then I'm sure that would be useful to everyone looking for driver updates sooner. Robie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
