karmic trashed in Tomshardware.com

[Patrick Goetz]

I've been out of the loop for a couple of months, so pardon me if this 
has already been discussed, but Karmic got thoroughly trashed in a 
TomsHardware.com review:

   http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-karmic-koala,2484.html

Some of these issues (system freezes when copying large files on ext4) 
I've never heard of before.

My personal gripes with karmic were finding out that fakeraid now 
doesn't work at all, a regression caused by grub2 
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/392136)
and that the network applet, nm-applet still doesn't work in a 
multi-user context:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/284596


Either of these is a deal killer for some significant fraction of users 
(e.g. dual booters or household shared PC users, respectively).