Ravi,
thanks for your message. I don't work for Canonical (I'm just a
longtime Ubuntu user) but here are some thoughts.
First, making Ubuntu (or any Linux-based OS) work well on the vast
variety of hardware that exists is a tremendously hard problem. Ubuntu
and others have made great progress in this area, but, still, lots of
hardware devices (especially graphics cards and networking chips) are
not friendly to free software: their specifications are not open. So
supporting these devices, when possible at all, requires challenging
and expensive reverse engineering.
By contrast, most hardware manufacturers actively work to make sure
that their devices work well with Windows and other commercial
operating systems, which have a much larger market share.
So if you install Ubuntu (or any Linux-based OS) on a machine
containing an arbitrary set of hardware and expect it to work as
smoothly as Windows, honestly I think you're setting your expectations
too high. There are two paths you could take:
1. You could buy or build a machine with hardware that is known to work
with Ubuntu. Here in the US, for example, System76 (system76.com) and
ZaReason (zareason.com) sell laptop and desktop machines which have
Ubuntu preinstalled. I've bought many computers from both those
companies and Ubuntu has always worked fine there. If you want to
build your own machine, you'll need to check that all the components
you're using are known to work with Ubuntu; obviously that's more work.
You might also want to make sure that the graphics card you're using
has a completely open source driver. This is more likely with a chip
from Intel than from ATI.
2. You could continue to use a machine where Ubuntu does not work well,
but join in the battle to improve Ubuntu there. To do that, you'll
want to find or file Launchpad tickets for each of the issues you're
seeing and/or actually find and fix those bugs if you have the
programming skills to do driver-level debugging and development.
Obviously this is a much harder path, so I think path 1 is the way to
go unless you particularly enjoy this kind of activity. cheers -
adam
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Ravi Kumar <ra2...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Comminity,
Its just feedback, please do not get jumping. I had a concern.
Day by day, Hardware is getting better and powerful, windows os is
getting better and better UX and functionality. Linux based mobile
platform (ie. Android) is getting better and amazing.
Why Linux based Desktop distros then have persistent problems and
affecting UX. Just an example, almost 3 yrs ago, I bought Dell XPS
15z. Installed Ubuntu, something worked, something didn't. Wireless
connectivity then also was pain.
1 year ago, I assembled myself a powerful workstation with Core i7,
16GB RAM, ATI GFX, SSD+HDD, ASUS Wireless Card with Logitech G300
mouse, just to have my Ubuntu workstation for development work.
Installed Ubuntu 12.04, it was disappointing.
Wifi was slow, internet was breaking a lot. I followed some
articles/answers from Ubuntu forums and askubutu. Nothing
worked.Dropped the idea, installed Windows 7, bought necessary
software, AV etc, and spent my half year without any issue. For
development I had to use Vagrant+VirtualBox+Ubuntu minimal without
GUI.
With Ubuntu 12.10 release, I thought to give it a try and see if that
works. Well, it failed, and had some new issues. I again switched
back to Windows + VirtualBox + Vagrant.With 13.04, again nothing
better. Wifi not performing better, graphics on ATI lagging. Does not
feel like I am on high end workstation. Logitech mouse is not working
smoothly, accuracy and acceleration is bad. Mouse extra keys are not
working, as expected. I tried tweaking all aspects of it.
On Windows, I don't have to do anything literally. Installed, tested
and started my development work.
My one question is, why Ubuntu is not really focusing in solving the
issues in the core in Desktop versions. Why so many tricks and tweaks
exists and may or may not work. Years and years passed, so many
contributors are involved, still fails to few or many, I don't have
idea.
P.S - I didn't mean anything negative, its a valid concern. If you
are taking it in negative perspective, just delete it.
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