On 04/05/10 08:50, Peter Merchant wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 02:51 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > >> On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 02:30 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote: >> >>> 1)Takes longer to boot up >>> 2)Boot up sequence looks like a chinese-made plastic toy. Crap. >>> 3)Uninstalls opencv, cannot reinstall. My vision demos no longer work. >>> 4)Breaks video. Cheese doesn't work. >>> 5)Laptop sound issues not improved. >>> 6)Rhythmbox opens on 'UbuntuOne' page. >>> 7)Left-handed controls installed by default. >>> 8)Menus difficult to use.(Split buttons on right). >>> Why why why oh why? What is 10.04 for? To keep Vista company? To join >>> the Microsoft World Order by being lousy? >>> No thanks. >>> When they come for my desktop I'll say "Nyet!" >>> >>> >>> > Because every time I have upgraded Kubuntu I have had to reinstall my > DVB stick firmware, and every time it gets more difficult as there are > more options to eliminate in the firmware, I was waiting to see what > happened with 10.04. > > Think that I'll wait awhile.... >
Or suck it and see via a live CD or USB session? It occurs to me that a good number of these issues would show up or could be tested without investing in an upgrade. My experience has been mixed between painless and mildly irritating over the five machines I have either upgraded or reinstalled over the weekend. My son's netbook and my daughter's laptop (both Acer machines) went painlessly and without much by way of comment from either of them. VirtualBox broke on Ellie's laptop and we are waiting for the new binaries to fully repair that, but I can't blame that on the Ubuntu folks. Sam's Acer One got a reinstall and he feels that it is faster now, so at least one satisfied customer there. My desktop machine got a reinstall after some irritating and erratic problems crept in to my dist-upgrade to the beta release of Lucid. That appeared to go smoothly but was eventually scuppered a reboot later by a long-standing issue with my Acer P193W LCD panel not playing nice with the Nouveau drivers for nVidia cards. I resolved that with a custom xorg.conf and by installing the nVidia drivers. I did hit an issue with my (other) son's and wife's Acer netbooks which have the dreaded and badly hobbled by design Intel GMA500 graphics chip*; that necessitated a roll-back to Karmic on my wife's machine and postponement of the upgrade until someone more competent than I can adapt the workaround to Lucid. I take a fairly philosophical approach to all of this in that (a) I could be paying for this grief (with something like Vista for instance!), and (b) it's actually quite good fun tinkering around and overcoming these issues. And, the day it becomes too tedious I know there are proprietary alternatives out there I can move to, plus a bunch of alternative open source options. The other thing to remember above all is that at any time I can acquire the skills to fix the issues or fork the distribution to suit my ideal, and that is a freedom you simply can't pay for with the proprietary equivalents. Sean * Maybe I should have researched that a little before snapping up that bargain, huh? -- music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: www.funkygibbins.me.uk -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-05-11 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
