Comment 54 for bug 342923

> If I wear my "dummy user hat" this is unacceptable, and I'm considering
> ranting loud about general Ubuntu regressions at each and every new
> version.

I just want to let you know that I feel much the same way. Well put!

>
> I've been a Linux user and supporter since 10+ years and sometimes a
> little code contributor in the past. I'm now professionally managing
> parks of Linux machines as well as advising non-I.T. friends and
> relatives.
>
>>From both points of view it is completely unacceptable that when
> performing a version upgrade, oh, graphics get broke on this machine,
> sound is lost on that machine, fglrx driver doesn't exist anymore for
> ATI cards, KDE SSL certs support has been broke for the whole KDE 4.x
> branch and not fixed even if bugs reports have been made 10 months ago,
> kernel is now compiled without USB_persist, WPA2 isn't supported anymore
> in Jaunty, Xen Dom0 kernel is missing since Intrepid and on...
>
> What the fsck is going on ?
>
> A geek can live with that and spend 1 day trying to figure out ONE problem, dig into a config file, read forums, recompile kernel on ONE machine when upgrading, but how could a professional managing a park of machine stand to live with that at each upgrade ?
> How could a professional tolerate that SSL certs support suddently disappears between KDE 3.x and 4.x and nothing is done in 10 months to fix it ?
> And how could non-I.T. more or less clueless beginner users (at whom Ubuntu also aims) find acceptable losing sound or graphics and having no clue when they upgrade ?
>
> I don't know what Ubuntu's doing but I'm starting to get really really
> angry at it generally speaking... I had to state it somewhere, now it's
> done in that bug report :-(
>
> Except for unforeseen and unpredictable bugs, a version upgrade should
> never break anything that used to work, or something is seriously broke
> with the project management, period.
>