Comment 244 for bug 532633

Looking back at this thread, the issue seems completely misunderstood by Ubuntu representatives.

Maybe to understand the debate, it should be made clear that this is the straw that broke the camel's back!

Someone hereupper complain about regressions every 6 months... the most annoying and not quirkable maybe the wifi: In a world where more laptops are now shipped than desktops, do you think this is a minor issue? As well as constant changes in acpi/power management that break suspend since... Dapper! No, it's not.

For wifi, since ipw replacement by iwl, Intel boards (so widely shipped in centrino based laptops) are subject to regressions since 2 years (and latest LTS, still not reliable): Yesterday I tried the lucid dailly build ISO (probably what will be the b1): My 3945 was at 60% strenght, limited to the worst modulation sheme (that limit wifi g BW to 1Mb/s!), 3 meters from AP... That's worse than hardy...

More surprising, I'm now trying alternatives: One of them caught my attention, PCLinuxOS. Same iwl driver, but full strenght and BW, a beta that works like a charm from live USB with nvidia proprietary drivers loaded: Never seen that before.

I don't know if I'll keep hardy till next year support end... and switch to Debian 6.0 that should be there meantime... or try something that is still more on the edge, but with users in mind (because sticky to the basis, as ubuntu at the beginning: Good HW support, acceptable reliability, clean interface without social networking stupidity/Apple bad copy. Hassle free rolling release: Another user centric feature delayed by ubuntu by 6 months... every 6 months!)... but upgrading to lucid is no more in my plans even if a full reinstall bothers me.

The confusion between what democraty should trigger (general long term distribution orientation, usability priorities...) and what meritocraty should apply to in ubuntu process (kernel/driver expertise, applicative sw test and integration)... is really worth reading!