At first I'm a developer as well. And adding features, features, features and refactoring all the times keeps the bugs left back on track, or worse, is introducing new bugs. And this is what makes me upset about unity. Its receiving features and refactorings but no stabilizations. It seems to me that nobody takes care of the many stability issues.
ie. This Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers- ubuntu/+bug/728745 is still open as "undecided". And the "Fix Released" for unity is bad joke: "We added the graphics card to blacklist ..." wtf? By unstable I mean: - Window decorator disappears (crashes) randomly in 11.10 - Unity is freezing the whole desktop. In 11.04 win Nvidia GF7 series and, since ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10 (latest upgrades) with GF8 series - In Ubuntu 11.10 Unity is freezing randomly - It's sometimes not reactin properly to the Super-Key (in version 11.10 - 12.04 is freezing so untestable) This seems to be related to the nvidia proprietary driver which is not open source and not fixable. But why the heck is Canonical making their primary desktop environment dependent to proprietary graphics drivers? And why are other desktop environments working smoothly with the proprietary drivers? There are issues reported for the latest nvidia driver causing these issues due to a security fix. Why is canonical not using an stable, known working version of the driver. They're restrictive with all other software (i.e. PHP is still 5.3 but could easily be upgraded to 5.4) but the essentials are updated to untested bleeding edge. What the hell? Provide bleeding edge packages for the people who desire to use it but use well tested software especially for LTS. It's disappointing and it started with making Unity the primary DE. I really like the Unity concept: * It's intuitive * It's easy * It saves time But that doesn't help a thing when it's freezing my desktop and I cannot use it. "Otherwise many techies just assume you're an idiot and the instability is user-error because that's what it so often turns out to be." And this is the way Ubuntu want's gain market share? Well good luck then ... Btw: I don't want to reinstall everything when going to the next distro version with the probability that it will still not work. Then I could use MS Windows with the exception that it spares me from "probably it will not work either"! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu 4 dz, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: New Status in dylan.NET.Reflection: Invalid Status in dylan.NET: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in elementary OS: Confirmed Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in LibreOffice: In Progress Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: In Progress Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: In Progress Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid Status in Tv-Player: Invalid Status in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project: In Progress Status in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: Invalid Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: Invalid Status in Arch Linux: Confirmed Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Debian: In Progress Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: In Progress Status in Tilix Linux: New Bug description: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. What happens: 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed. 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed. What should happen: 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu. 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all. 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
