I have realised something about people not reporting bugs

[Brendan || Lyn Perrine]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 12:36:53 +0200
Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have realised something, which is that most painful bugs on new Ubuntu 
> releases are hardware related. And that is probably caused by people 
> testing releases on virtual machines, instead on real hardware.
> 
> Graphics, wifi and UEFI are the most common sources of people not 
> upgrading to new releases. Perhaps we shall encourage more bare metal 
> testing, doing it with generous advance to release, and leaving 
> visualization only for the development of applications.
> 
> 
Yes and there are probably many more variety in hardware than the emulated hardware in virtual machines so testing in them too much can be a bit redundant. They still have there uses just do not solve all the problems all the time. Also it depends do the people testing have the hardware in question. 

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Brendan  || Lyn Perrine <walterorlin at gmail.com>