Comment 535 for bug 359392

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 06:00:37PM -0000, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 04/06/2009 alle 13.17 +0000, ichudov ha scritto:
> > When people say "Linux is not ready for desktop", this is what they
> > mean.
> >
>
> As a 12-years old (as a linux user) linux user, I have to say it's true.
> I hoped for a long time that Ubuntu would have been different.

I am a "14 years old" Linux user, I used it as my primary OS since
1995, when I bought my first own PC I put Linux on it.

And I have to say that there are many projects in GNU/Linux that have a
great history of very careful, thoughtful software development, such
as editors, binutils, gcc, apache, perl etc. These have self tests,
etc and go through a very rigorous development process, so I never
hesitate to trust them with my business. They find bugs automatically
and fix discovered bugs.

However, I think that any sort of a project that "does not fix bugs"
may lose trust, and has a limited future, and I am greatly hoping that
Ubuntu would not take that route.

We cannot really recommend to people to "switch to pre-alpha Karmic",
either.

I do realize that 1) GUI stuff is not as amenable to automatic testing
and 2) Ubuntu is trying to do this on a shoestring budget, so the
situation is understandable, but in some ways it is unfortunate.

I am a 100% Ubuntu user, this is what I use at home and what we have
at work, so this is not meant to be jeering from sidelines. But I do
feel that I have a deep interest in seeing my platform remain a
reliable, trusted friend.

Personally, on the balance of "wanting new cool stuff" versus "wanting
to have reliable software", I tend to be skewed for the latter.

> In this case, putting the old driver back in the distribution and
> starting to chose the right driver based on user's feedback until the
> too many intel issues are solved, would be mandatory.

I tend to agree with you.

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