On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Andrew Oulton <[email protected]>wrote:
> Can't we all just wait for 30 days and THEN talk about it? :) I'd > give them the benefit of the doubt until then, and then hey... > whatever. This isn't Jo-Jo's Psychic Alliance (remember what happened > to her? Now THAT'S irony). > > Thanks to Nick for the spirited defense. I thought the prefix of <rant> metadata tags might give a clue, also the details of the work arounds that have been applied. I mean rmmod'ing a driver to get it un-stuck, creating wpa_supplicant configs and invoking them by hand, etc... is hardly newbie raving. apparently not. My worry about waiting 30 days is that ubuntu is the flagship linux distribution, and if it gets hyped and newbies use it, and it turns out to be junk... the press will review it and ... well I'd rather avoid that. While I see where one can report specific issues, the sheer number of major issues in this release is overwhelming, which is why I think at least warning Canonical somehow is in order. But there isn't a way to submit a bug report on everything, you know? I hope the optimists are right, that everything will be fine in 30 days. I just don´t think it is likely, and think it is helpful to say: "guys, half-time and you down by 20 points, so perhaps a strategy change is in order" rather than simply be a cheerleader. Real sports fans argue about strategy, and get passionate about which player gets sent in when... you know? I think Canonical needs to take a step back and consider, and maybe just skip a release rather than releasing something that ain't ready. It isn't just me, Fedora and Suse dropped Unity last month: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/220085/fedora_and_opensuse_linux_drop_unity_efforts.html Because it was changing constantly, and not feature complete, so they could not do any cleanups & QA. It ain't ready. So that leaves Canonical with 30 days to either drop unity and clean up the classical desktop for a few more releases until unity is ready, or go full bore on software that plain isn't done yet. If they slap a "this is linux for tablets" marketing campaign and it gets put out there with a bunch of OEM's... it's going to be ugly. The other thing is that all the effort going into unity is replacing effort that normally would be working on cleaning up messes, QA prior to launch. They simply do not have the resources to both fix unity and clean else everything up (like the busted AMD drivers) in the time available.
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