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I'm not turning away because Desktop Cube doesn't work, I'm turning away because it completely messed up my system by simply trying to turn it on, through the G

by larrik 15y ago

I'm not turning away because Desktop Cube doesn't work, I'm turning away because it completely messed up my system by simply trying to turn it on, through the GUI. I wasn't messing with my X configuration or any other insanities. I clicked a button in the settings, and had to Google around just to get back to a working computer. What other landmines are waiting for me? What if I install KDevelop or some other KDE-based program? Will that cause everything to break too? I don't know, but I never before had to be afraid to just try things. Now I have to worry if whatever I'm doing is "Canonical-approved," and I'm not okay with that. (I really doubt KDE is going to cause a problem, it was just an example.) For the record, I played with Gnome 3 a little more, and I'm willing to give it a longer chance. Avant Window Navigator is a must, though. Overall, it just seems like Gnome 3 and Unity have all of my least favorite parts of OS X jammed into it for no good reason.

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gldalmaso 15y ago
In that case it is a bug that should be reported. Every new release introduces new bugs that affects different users. It's part of the fast iteration approach and there's just no way to test-case every other possibility in a desktop OS for end users, that's part of the reason why Linux for desktops is such a daunting task. If you need to rely on stability then you should always wait for the LTS releases, or at least try out the release first in a sandboxed environment before updating. I know how you feel when an update ends up breaking some stuff, it happens to me too and I always get mad because "that just shouldn't happen". But in the end I realize that what we expected is just not deliverable. Unlike most other OSs, Ubuntu releases every 6 months, that's a very short period to improve and test, hence LTS releases are there for those that cannot suffer from these set backs.

by larrik 15y ago

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gldalmaso 15y ago

In that case it is a bug that should be reported. Every new release introduces new bugs that affects different users. It's part of the fast iteration approach and there's just no way to test-case every other possibility in a desktop OS for end users, that's part of the reason why Linux for desktops is such a daunting task. If you need to rely on stability then you should always wait for the LTS releases, or at least try out the release first in a sandboxed environment before updating. I know how you feel when an update ends up breaking some stuff, it happens to me too and I always get mad because "that just shouldn't happen". But in the end I realize that what we expected is just not deliverable. Unlike most other OSs, Ubuntu releases every 6 months, that's a very short period to improve and test, hence LTS releases are there for those that cannot suffer from these set backs.