Idea #6802: Make a Ubuntu without big blunders

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Written by corneel the 10 Apr 08 at 19:27. Category: Hardware support.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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7.10: gives 'out of range' on my 1024x768 lcd screen
8.04: my linksys wireless is very, very slow

It's good te make inovations, but do not forget the basics of a distro.

What's the big blunder on 8.10? No color? No usb? No mouse?

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knoopx wrote on the 10 Apr 08 at 20:02

8.04: my linksys wireless is very, very slow -> If you are using Ralink-based chipset card try to avoid Ubuntu's default rt2x00 driver

steve196 wrote on the 10 Apr 08 at 21:18

Canonical reads your idea and decides: Aha, people do not like blunders in their software. Let's offer a blunderless Ubuntu!

rs3york wrote on the 10 Apr 08 at 21:41

Steve196 is right. The idea that Canonical is deliberately shipping Ubuntu "with big blunders" is crazy. There are 2 easy ways to get what you want and both would hurt Ubuntu even more.

1. Move from a time-based release cycle to a feature-based release cycle.

2. Ship very conservative releases.

Perhaps you think that option 2 is a good one, but part of Ubuntu's popularity is how up-to-date it is without being as leading/bleeding edge as say Fedora.

neon wrote on the 10 Apr 08 at 21:54

>_> So file a bug report. Regressions happen, they're not put there on purpose to annoy you though.

cheesehead wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 00:09

Bring on the blunders!

vexorian wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 00:58

Get hardware without big blunders.

mb wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 13:09

If you want to leave your complains, then Brainstorm isn't the right place.

revzoe wrote on the 16 Apr 08 at 06:59

it's natural that regressions will happen in all software. This is by far the most complicated persuit humanity has ever found. So, when something goes bad, you need to take the initiative and initiate a bug report on it. This is an area where we are far ahead of all other OS's out there, simply because the users are so ready to report bugs.

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