My goodness, have you never heard of the 80% / 20% rule, also known as
the Pareto law? That law states that the system will be 80% complete
for delivery day, but the other 20% will take ever so much more time to
make working properly.
On 2011-03-27 10:03 AM, Andrew Oulton wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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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