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["Axel H." <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At first I'm a developer as well. And adding features, features,
features and refactoring all the times keeps the bugs left back on
track, or worse, is introducing new bugs. And this is what makes me
upset about unity. Its receiving features and refactorings but no
stabilizations. It seems to me that nobody takes care of the many
stability issues.

ie. This Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-
ubuntu/+bug/728745 is still open as "undecided". And the "Fix Released"
for unity is bad joke: "We added the graphics card to blacklist ..."
wtf?

By unstable I mean:
- Window decorator disappears (crashes) randomly in 11.10
- Unity is freezing the whole desktop. In 11.04 win Nvidia GF7 series and, since ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10 (latest upgrades) with GF8 series 
- In Ubuntu 11.10 Unity is freezing randomly
- It's sometimes not reactin properly to the Super-Key (in version 11.10 - 12.04 is freezing so untestable)

This seems to be related to the nvidia proprietary driver which is not open source and not fixable.
But why the heck is Canonical making their primary desktop environment dependent to proprietary graphics drivers? And why are other desktop environments working smoothly with the proprietary drivers?

There are issues reported for the latest nvidia driver causing these issues due to a security fix.
Why is canonical not using an stable, known working version of the driver. They're restrictive with all other software (i.e. PHP is still 5.3 but could easily be upgraded to 5.4) but the essentials are updated to untested bleeding edge. What the hell?

Provide bleeding edge packages for the people who desire to use it but use well tested software especially for LTS.
It's disappointing and it started with making Unity the primary DE.

I really like the Unity concept:
* It's intuitive
* It's easy
* It saves time

But that doesn't help a thing when it's freezing my desktop and I cannot
use it.

"Otherwise many techies just assume you're an idiot and the instability is user-error because that's what it so often turns out to be."
And this is the way Ubuntu want's gain market share? Well good luck then ...


Btw:
I don't want to reinstall everything when going to the next distro version with the probability that it will still not work. Then I could use MS Windows with the exception that it spares me from "probably it will not work either"!

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Title:
  Microsoft has a majority market share

Status in Club Distro:
  Confirmed
Status in Computer Science Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
  New
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  Invalid
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  Invalid
Status in EasyPeasy Overview:
  Invalid
Status in elementary OS:
  Confirmed
Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians:
  Invalid
Status in JAK LINUX:
  Invalid
Status in LibreOffice:
  In Progress
Status in The Linux Kernel:
  New
Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
  In Progress
Status in The Linux OS Project:
  In Progress
Status in The Metacity Window Manager:
  In Progress
Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  In Progress
Status in Tabuntu:
  Invalid
Status in A simple player to online TV streaming:
  Invalid
Status in Tv-Player:
  Invalid
Status in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project:
  In Progress
Status in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in The Jaunty Jackalope:
  Invalid
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  Invalid
Status in Arch Linux:
  Confirmed
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  Invalid
Status in “linux” package in Debian:
  In Progress
Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS:
  Confirmed
Status in openSUSE:
  In Progress
Status in Tilix Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
  This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

  Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry,
  restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and
  limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full
  potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.

  Steps to repeat:

  1. Visit a local PC store.

  What happens:
  2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
  3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.

  What should happen:
  1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
  2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
  3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.

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