I don't think that I was disrespectful. I was describing the behaviour and not an individual. I call them as I see them. It is ridiculous IMO to base one's own behaviour on the experiences of one person's past experience. You can find one squeaky wheel for just about anything. If you listen to them then you may be missing out on much as a result. However, I do apologise if you interpreted it as a personal attack. That was not my intent.
Not everything Ubuntu is rosy. I also call that as I see it. Karmic was a bad release as was Jaunty, IMO. Many people were frustrated with continuing sound and wireless problems, but these releases also added the frustration of graphics card problems. I was apprehensive about Lucid so I tested it with more rigour than previous releases and found it hard to find fault. I don't care about button placement or the music store. I do care about performance and things working properly. Most sound issues and many wireless issues are behind us. I thank kernel developers for much of that. Canonical should be congratulated for implementing Plymouth and doing away with HAL with little in the way of problems. Plymouth introduced many potential problems as any Nvidia and Fedora user can attest to. The fact that HAL's removal went under the radar of most people confirms that this was successful. Plymouth gave some problems for me early on with no compositing but this was achieved with beta 2. There are several good reasons to install 10.04. Performance is much better. The new kernel gives better hardware detection and more drivers. Sound problems are far fewer. There are enhancements such as the music store, MeMenu and many newer applications plus you get three year support due to it being LTS. What is there not to like? Button placement is easily fixed BTW. I look forward to 10.10 even more in the hopes that Mono will be gone from the default installation. So far F-Spot is to be replaced with Shotwell which leaves only Tomboy and Gbrainy as the only two Mono apps left and Tomboy can be replaced by Gnote. That should save lots of CD space for other goodies! Each person needs to try out 10.04 for him or herself and make up their own mind. I don't like scare tactics used by some to spread FUD and people giving into it which is why I responded strongly. Roy On 28 May 2010 22:29, Kari Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, pretty much. I run two businesses and homeschool two kids and chase > a toddler around while supporting my husband's farming business. Schedule's > pretty full & I don't sleep much. I belong to groups like this to save me > time because it's my most precious commodity. I'm pretty smart and can > figure out almost anything, but time limitations make troubleshooting an > as-needed activity. Screwing around w/ Linux for curiosity's sake? That > was so ten years ago for me. > Note that I used the word *hassle* -- I believe Karmic can be installed, but > jumping needless hurdles? Nah. Not right now. > I'm sure you feel differently, and I'm sure you're more respectful of others > than you came across to be in this post. > ~kari > > > > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Do you roll over for everything this easily? So one person reports and >> bad experience and you will not upgrade? That is ludicrous. I have >> used Lucid since Alpha 1 and replaced Karmic with Lucid on both my >> systems when Beta 2 came out. It is one of the best releases from >> Ubuntu yet. >> >> Roy >> >> On 28 May 2010 09:08, Kari Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm glad to know this. Thanks for saving me the hassle of the upgrade. >> > ~kari >> > >> > >> > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Vyshakh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> I'm back to KARMIC. >> >> LUCID disappointed me a lot. >> >> Please check the attached screen shots. Do anyone face problem like >> >> these in Nautilus???? >> >> These patterns and colors are irritating.... >> >> >> >> One more thing... >> >> Even though I've installed lucid several times, I could not see the >> >> new boot screen completely. it was never shown fully. 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