9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu

[Roger]

Or some people don't have time to report problems because they are
busy fixing the problems.

For example, I have not gotten around my work (now that I'm here I may
as well) to report how STUPID and WINDOWS LIKE is the
fact that when you type "sudo apt-get update" the Graphical Update
Manager pop ups. If this is a gnome-terminal issue then please
accept my apologies if not then take it and stop fixing what was working fine.

-r

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Mike McGinn <mikemcginn at mcginnweb.net> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 05 November 2009 12:38:03 Tony Arnold wrote:
>> Mike,
>>
>> Mike McGinn wrote:
>> > On Thursday 05 November 2009 11:50:47 Clint Tinsley wrote:
>> >> It appears that Karmic Koala was rushed out the door and is really
>> >> giving Ubuntu and Linux a black eye as a very flawed, buggey release.
>> >> There have been two derogative reviews with the second one today on
>> >> Linux Magazine Daily titled "Hey Ubuntu, Stop Making Linux Look Bad" and
>> >> it sad to acknowledge that they are right.  The article reports that
>> >> maybe 10% of the user population is getting a "succesful" working
>> >> installlation and after my experience this morning, I wonder for how
>> >> longed.  I did an inplace upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10, things were
>> >> seriously broken.  I did a clean install, had a few challenges, not a
>> >> perfect install. Then this morning, I found that my Wine menu was
>> >> "reset" and one of my application folders was missing off the hard
>> >> drive, this after a update that sort of worked, I think.  And like many
>> >> have experienced, 9.10 is very slow to boot.  Waiting for the real
>> >> release of 9.10... or atleast a remix.  I cannot recommend 9.10 to my
>> >> user community.  9.04 was great, it worked, Gloria Mint 7 put on the
>> >> polish.
>> >>
>> >> Sorry, please no flames.
>> >>
>> >> Clint
>> >
>> > Totally opposite of my experience. I upgraded to the 9.10 beta a few
>> > weeks ago from 9.04 and have had no problems with it.
>>
>> I agree. I've upgraded two machines and installed from fresh on another
>> all without any problems. Is this a case of only bad news ever being
>> reported?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tony.
>>
> Hi Tony,
> It does appear that only bad news is reported, but most folks only email these
> groups when they are having problems. I bet Technical Support people do not
> get many calls reporting everything is OK.
>
> Regards,
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