Unity: Nothing can go wrong!

[Samuel Thurston]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:58 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 April 2011 09:46, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nothing can go wrong! Nothing can go wr!"&%!£%"^!%£!"""@@@@@@@@@@@@
>> 5 out of 11 testers managed to crash Unity:
>> http://digitizor.com/2011/04/15/crashed-unity-canonical-study/
>> How far are we from release day?
>
>
> The rest of the results are pretty dismal too:
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-April/032988.html
>
>


You know, I wouldn't mind this so much.  I'm a stubborn user and I
don't mind things being crashy, submitting bug reports, etc.

However, my concern is the impact this has on the linux desktop in a
larger context.  This kind of bad press associated with the
most-popular linux distro in this day and age, may be just what it
took to set linux back another 5 years.

Planning to release a product with an unfinished and under-tested DE
is suicidally irresponsible.   Much as I hate to say it I suspect that
canonical's days may be numbered as a result of this.