Comment 58 for bug 626974

Hi Guys,

It's always good to help improve communication, understanding and cooperation - anytime and anywhere...

FWIW, I see many people dropping Windows (even though it's a very solid OS these days,) and moving to MACs and PCs running Ubuntu. In fact Ubuntu is now a mainstream operating system and, after years of major re-writing, Kubuntu is rapidly getting there too! You may have noticed news article after article from corporations and governments, going back as far as 10 years, announcing that they are supporting Ubuntu and, more recently, installing it by default on new PCs.

It's a good idea to review, though, why some people are having trouble and others, like me, are tickled pink:

There's an obvious scheduling problem with so many distros and projects being so disconnected from the manufacturers. The manufacturers would surely like to be able to provide the proper support and the distros would like to be able to work more closely with the manufacturers and the programmers involved in the various projects - but the business process is evolving with many problems remaining to be solved.

Canonical is making progress in this area and I think you'll find that all interested project leaders are paying attention - so we are marching forward on the learning curve and things are getting better in general. Also the cost of entry for new projects is going up - which will reduce the number of new projects and improve the quality of the successful projects as time goes on.

For now, though, people with production servers and workstations need to be more patient about major upgrades.

In my case I upgraded a few systems on the basis of the excellent work that I was seeing in the previous beta releases - but then I found that there are some serious instabilities in 10.10 (mysterious crashes that bring down everything including the kernel.) This is normal for a new release and I knew it - so I will try next time to wait a bit before upgrading my production environments. On the other hand it's hard for me to be patient because I want so much to make use of all the excellent product that is in the upgrades!

(My thanks and congratulations again to the many wonderful people who make all this good stuff possible!)

I hope that more people will take the time to review and discuss (and hopefully explain) what's going on in more detail as time permits. More discussion will Improve the level of knowledge and understanding which will help more people to properly benefit and enjoy all this great work that's being done.

Have a great day,
Take care,
Sam.