This article may be provocative or even flamebait but the author still has a point. I'm constantly bombarded with things working in a previous release no longe

This article may be provocative or even flamebait but the author still has a point. I'm constantly bombarded with things working in a previous release no longer working in a new release. This involves everything from video-drivers, GDM, wifi, powermanagement etc etc ad infinitum. And yes. Constantly breaking things which used to work is not what I call progress. See fewt's take on this for a more technical breakdown on how Ubuntu's internal workings can be (1). It's become so extremely annoying that for me, that right now the only thing I'm using Ubuntu for are shell-VMs with a fairly predictable "hardware" config and for my netbook for lack of better choice. (1) http://www.fewt.com/2009/10/i-give-up.html http://www.fewt.com/2009/10/i-give-up.html