That was a bit strange, but welcome to the team. Maybe you could try installing 13.10 since it's pretty much ready.
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 7:40 AM, matteo sisti sette <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The Ubuntu QA team's website invites visitors to join the list and introduce > themselves, so here I am introducing myself to the list. > > I am an Ubuntu user and I have been more and more frustrated by the > exponentially growing unusability and unstability of Ubuntu throughout the > last years. But I will focus on unstability here. > > Now I am astonished to see the point it has reached. > I have installed a fresh new Ubuntu 13.04 on a brand new computer. > First, the Firefox browser stopped working after updating it (simply via > apt-get) and it turned out to be because ~/.cache/mozilla somehow got the > wrong owner (root) rendering it unaccessible and preventing Firefox from > reading the user profofiles and hence to work at all. > > But now, after a reboot, I find myself with an empty desktop with no Unity > launcher nor system bar. None of the workarounds described at > http://askubuntu.com/questions/17381/unity-doesnt-load-no-launcher-no-dash-appears/ > or https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1212987 work. > > So after delirious usability killers (I won't mention them here as I want to > focus on UNSTABILITY), after the impossibility to hibernate, after the > impossibility to suspend on low battery, after random x.org crashes started > to appear which would just suddenly log you out destroying all unsaved data > at the blinking of an eye, now we have reached the point where you may just > reboot and find yourself with a completely unusable system, roughly > equivalent to one that won't even boot. Which means you are forced to either > waste a couple of days googling for a fix, or reinstall the whole system > just until this happens again. > > End of rant. > Matteo > > -- > Matteo Sisti Sette > [email protected] > http://www.matteosistisette.com > > -- > Ubuntu-quality mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality > -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
