Comment 101 for bug 285682

Hi all,
almost similar to naomi I quit using any ubuntu versions younger than 8.04.
My reasons are
First:
I experienced the same (very well documented) troubles with a digital camera; in my case a Kodak EasyShare DX6340. I managed it with a different workaround but my girlfriend (just a normal computer user) don't know nothing about shell commands. Who could blame her for that?
Second:
The recovery mode grub offers at startup doesn't work on my machine (at least with 9.10 but I suppose even since 8.10). In case of big trouble (i.e. Gnome doesn't start) I'm totally lost and I'm obviously not the only one (see Bug #39991). Funny this bug is marked as NEW (July 2009).
Third:
In 8.04 my USB WLAN stick worked perfectly. Plugging it in and out anytime no matter how often produced the expected behaviour (network or no network respectively). In 9.10 plugging it out freezes the whole machine(!). My first experience of that kind on Linux!
Furthermore in 9.10 the whole functionality of network connection seems to be personally bound to each GNOME session. Starting the machine starts the WLAN stick and connects to the WLAN rather quickly but after GNOME begins to start and the login prompt is shown the connection vanished. After logging in correctly the connection is established again. Strange behaviour; a recource that is used by every user and should be provided by the system(!) is driven by user processes. A matter of software architecture I guess.

At the end I decided to go back to 8.04. The downgrade process worked rather flawlessly, because with the decission of manually partitioning every personal data (i.e. /home) was not touched.

So I am still a happy ubuntu user (although not really up to date - but who cares).