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[Joseph Zitt <jzitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Y'see, I'm a big Linux aficionado, but this is the kind of thing that really
bugs me about Ubuntu (and Linux in general). There's the big drumroll
leading up to the release, the excited reviews about how wonderful things
are, the excitement of downloading and installing the new versio... and then
it doesn't work, and I ask questions, and I get "Well, yeah, that's really
buggy. Go back to the old version."

I understand that Ubuntu has a widely touted process of alphas and betas and
release candidates and all that... but we have these failures all the time.

What can be done so that there's a dependable testing process? Does anyone
take pride in and ownership of the new releases? Do we really expect to
reach World Dominiation if the user experience has these hurdles?

My unfortunate experience is that when I want excitement and to feel like
I'm Doing The Right Thing, I use Linux. But when I'm facing deadlines and
need productivity without either excuses or detours to work around stuff
that I can't aford to have broken, I have to depend on something else.

How can this be made better?

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Patrick Best <pkbest@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> @Joe,
>
> First of al.. yeah.. politics suck. That's why ive stayed out of ALLLL...
> of these convos. anyway... I have the Asus 1101HA (GMA500 Poulsbo GFX card.)
> Even bigger pain to run on 10.10. Go with 10.04. I am using that just fine
> with one of the most linux unsupported graphics cards in the Asus line..  SO
> PaulTag is very much so right. 10.10's unity interface is extremely buggy.
> I'd give it at least a few months before trying it. Also, you can always try
> googling Asus EeePC ubuntu 10.10.. and see what pops up.
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Heyya Joe,
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Joseph Zitt <jzitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > First, my apologies for posting outside the key topics of politics or
>> > dentistry.
>>
>> Dude, we all hate politics. No worries.
>>
>> >
>> > I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition with the Unity interface on an
>> Asus
>> > Eee 1001P. [0]
>>
>> Oh no. I see where this is going...
>>
>> >
>> > The system has some quirks, such as starting with the keyboard NumLocked
>> > (which led me to think that i couldn't log in at all until I realized
>> it)
>> > and not supporting an external monitor well.
>>
>> :(
>>
>> >
>> > It also sometime grinds effectively to a halt. I hear it continuously
>> > accessing the hard drive, but can't do anything. This sometimes happens
>> when
>> > I revive it by pressing a key after it's been idle for several hours,
>> but
>> > also see it in some other less well-defined circumstances. (One thing I
>> > found was that opening the Files and Folders screen, so I don't use that
>> > anymore, sticking with Gnome Commander.) When this happens, all I can do
>> is
>> > forcibly power down then power it back up.
>>
>> This is more Unity then anything else. Since Mutter does not support
>> hardware acceleration, it renders via software. BOO!
>>
>> I was trying to backport netbook-launcher to no avail. :(
>>
>> >
>> > I seem to remember there being scripts, and possibly even software
>> packages,
>> > that straightened this stuff out, but I'm not seeing them anymore.
>> >
>> > BTW, I hated the Unity interface when I first experienced it, but have
>> grown
>> > to like it. With the help of Gnome Do, a bunch of Firefox plugins,
>> Dropbox,
>> > and a few other tools, this is a surprisingly useful little PC.
>> >
>> > So... does anyone have any pointers on getting 10.10 to work better on
>> this
>> > Eee?
>>
>> Switch to 10.04. I know it sounds backwards, but 10.10's unity
>> iterface is really really REALLY buggy. I've switched off of UNE
>> because of it
>>
>> :(
>>
>> >
>> > [0] http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=5AH8HAdGuhiQIXgg
>> > --
>> > Joseph Zitt ::http://www.josephzitt.com
>> >
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>>
>> Let us know how it goes!!!
>>
>> -Paul
>>
>> --
>> All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors.
>>
>> #define sizeof(x) rand()
>> :wq
>>
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