Well it is still a month away from being released so there is little reason to expect it to be stable. If you feel like you're just a guinea pig, it's because YOU ARE :)
Andrew On 2011-03-27 9:32 AM, "Peter Silva" <[email protected]> wrote: > <rant> > I speak as an ubuntu fan, with a house full of ubuntu's, and long > experience. natty not just slightly painful. It is seriously unusably bad > regressions awful... on 10.10, I was used to not having suspend/resume, to > having to stop looking at video to keep the graphics chip from overheating > (triggering a shutdown) but 11.04 is far, far worse. the trackpad (this > might be hardware) doesn't work, there isn't anywhere to set it. The > wireless no longer works (not a driver issue, I start up wpa_supplicant & > dhclient by hand and it's fine about half the time, the rest of the time, it > refuses to associate. I rmmod ath9k, then modprobe it again, and then I can > get bandwidth back. I just leave it alone for a few hours, it is always > crashed/hung... I suspect it's the open source X drivers not dealing well > with GL screen savers, because it doesn't crash much when I stay in front of > it. I will refrain from talking about Unity beyond saying it is clearly not > ready in a thousand ways, I switched to xfce to get away, which was less > foreign, but all the hardware issues remain. (tests done mostly with > alpha3) losing all the knobs to adjust things, it is just a really big step > backwards. I worry that in trying to make Unity, which should be a big > step forwards, people are forgetting just how many little details went into > making ubuntu/gnome actually work. I was a kubuntu user for years but had > recently switched to the gnome stream because of all the little things that > didn't work. The unity people have years of work to do before we get to > usability parity with the classic desktop. It's just so unspeakably bad > that I don't even have the courage to submit a bug report, it isn't even > close to being usable, it just feels like a complete waste of time. > Seriously, Canonical cannot be serious about this. It isn't going to work. > </rant> > > I feel better now...
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