heh is the natty very nasty ? well, I was participating on 11.04 alpha testing and all I can say is IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ALPHA/BETA testing then better still away and stick to the stable releases Once, I also was kinda angry ... but IT IS testing as said above and also in user agreement. So, there is nobody to blame except to these users who are only think about the "modern system" and have no understanding about programming....
Think before installing Sorry if it is too harsh Val On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 09:32 -0400, Peter Silva 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... > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
