If Linux is going to do better than Windows, things like supporting legacy and doing upgrades have to be completely bulletproof, and major tools like nautalus have to work flawlessly through all revs. The Idea that releases fall out of support after 18 months is not going to help you win over Windows users. Connonical needs to assure its customers that a released version will be supported and will get backports for much longer. At Sun we gave five years of support per release, so even while I was there Solaris 2.5 was still supported. If Connonical can't make that kind of assurance because it is rolling revs too fast and trying to remain bleeding edge than it ought to rachett back its cycle and provide a more conservative support model. That is especially true when it has so many packages in its repositories. The only reason I tried to do an upgrade was because of the large number of packages I had installed. If I shouldn't use what is available, then maybe I should go use a much more conservative distro, such as Slackware. You can't get it both ways, you can't be bleeding edge and make available every package known to man and them surprise your user by saying "Oh, that isn't supported. BZZT, reinstall" Because I'll go looking for a distro OTHER than yours.
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