On 11-03-27 09:32 AM, 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...
I have installed it twice now on different machines, and performed a
10.10 in-place upgrade on my laptop. Everything works fine, the desktop
is different, but very usable and in fact maybe even dare I say it
better. All my hardware is supported with no messing about at all.
I don't think we can call this release a write-off just yet, but perhaps
I'm just a fanboi :)
Jeremy
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