I couldn't agree more. While Hardy is very stable now, it took a point
release, and a lot of bugs exist purely because packages aren't being
upgraded quickly enough.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Jeffrey Baker <email address hidden> wrote:
> That's great JamesxL, but I've been using Linux for 14 years and I don't
> need advice on how to run shell archives. My point here is that the
> out-of-box experience for users of 8.04 "Long Term Support" is bad.
> Everybody who installs this thing on Nvidia graphics is going to get the
> same bad experience. The right thing to do would be to ship is with the
> Human window borders disabled, and the Clearlooks window borders enabled
> instead.
>
> Telling people to install out-of-archive kernel modules from websites is
> not a good solution. Asking people to dig around on Launchpad looking
> for workarounds is not a good solution, either. 8.04 should work, out
> of the box, with the default settings as shipped. Right now that's not
> true. It doesn't matter if it's nvidia's fault.
>
> --
> Titlebar incorrectly drawn with geforce 5/6/7, compiz and human-theme
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99508
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
I couldn't agree more. While Hardy is very stable now, it took a point
release, and a lot of bugs exist purely because packages aren't being
upgraded quickly enough.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Jeffrey Baker <email address hidden> wrote:
> That's great JamesxL, but I've been using Linux for 14 years and I don't /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 99508
> need advice on how to run shell archives. My point here is that the
> out-of-box experience for users of 8.04 "Long Term Support" is bad.
> Everybody who installs this thing on Nvidia graphics is going to get the
> same bad experience. The right thing to do would be to ship is with the
> Human window borders disabled, and the Clearlooks window borders enabled
> instead.
>
> Telling people to install out-of-archive kernel modules from websites is
> not a good solution. Asking people to dig around on Launchpad looking
> for workarounds is not a good solution, either. 8.04 should work, out
> of the box, with the default settings as shipped. Right now that's not
> true. It doesn't matter if it's nvidia's fault.
>
> --
> Titlebar incorrectly drawn with geforce 5/6/7, compiz and human-theme
> https:/
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>