Oh, please, please, COME ON Ubuntu development people!

[Joep L. Blom]

On 16/04/11 15:59, Basil Chupin wrote:

> I came to the following conclusion last night - and your comments
> contain some of those conclusions in one way or another.
>
> The only people who do any 'testing' of these Linux distros, or even try
> and use them, are old farts who have nothing better to do other than
> waste whatever remaining time they have on this earth in trying to
> appear useful for some cause - in this case pretending they have a great
> big interest in trying to convert the world to use a Linux distro of
> their "choice" when they perfectly well know, but still delude
> themselves that this is not the case, that 99.9% of the world is not
> going to stop using Windows or Apple MAC but change over to some Linux
> distro.
>
> The only interest the old farts seem to have in this whole affair is
> having some sort of social life by belonging to the mail lists and where
> they can parry and trust with words and put down people at the first
> opportunity.
>
> They even go around organising "Release Parties" - such as is currently
> being done here in Australia - to "celebrate" the release of Natty in a
> couple of weeks!
>
> The only comments the old farts can contribute to some adverse remark
> about something such as what is being talked about here is, "But its
> ONLY a Beta, HA, HA, HA, and EVERYBODY knows you pay no attention to
> what a Beta doesn't do! and so don't complain but help to propagate this
> delusion that your "testing" is important and submit a BUG report
> (woohoo! a BUG report - that magical expression, "BUG report", which
> suddenly is intended to confer on you membership of the inner circle of
> a special corp of Boy Scouts whose members are most likely to have an
> average age of 75 years!).
>
> How many young people have been converted to using Linux - but let's
> say, Ubuntu?
>
> Bugger all I would say.
>
> The only people talking about Linux are old farts - not young people.
> The young ones go for the latest version of Firefox and Chrome - but
> even these are not available to them in a released version of a distro
> because such things are not backported.
>
> And when some young person comes along and starts to ask questions, what
> do the old farts say to him/her? "Don't expect us to do your
> homework/assignment for you! Go and google for the information you free
> loader!".
>
> About 4 years ago in another distro I suggested to the 'boss' of the
> project to give a copy of the distro to all the kids in his street and
> ask them to tear the system apart and find all the faults in it so that
> the faults can be rectified before it is finally released. Yeah,
> right..... The only people still doing any testing are old
> farts......and young kids don't get to know Linux.
>
> And speaking of which..... and I will not make any further
> comment/observation on this matter.... some parts of Natty crashed on me
> today. When the crashes occurred I was asked if I want to submit a
> report to help the developers solve the crashes - I answered YES and
> reports were generated; but then I was asked to provide my name, e-mail
> address, a password for some account, the size of my shoes, religious
> inclinations, my inside leg measurement - which I refused to do and so
> the developers got zilch to help them solve the crashes. If the system
> generates the damn crash report why the heck should I provide all such
> unnecessary details? Is someone afraid that I could waste my time coming
> up with a bogus report just to get my jollies off?
>
> Anyway, complaining or pointing out some problems is not what using an
> operating system is about. I want to use it to do things and not spend
> time reporting on hassles. So, from now on just reading what is written
> by people and keeping up with the people I got to know here.
>
> When you think about it, many, many people have spent time and effort in
> coding, looking for hassles, reporting the hassles only to find now that
> whatever they have been doing for a long time has been for nought and
> now they - if they consider that there is no other life for them outside
> of reporting 'bugs' - have to start all over again because Unity is
> here! "Sorry, but stuff this for a joke", is what I expect some people
> to conclude.
>
> BC
>
Eh, Basil,
Your (OT) rant is firstly completely useless and secondly grossly in 
error. Or didn't you know that the MacOS is Linux (albeit BSD) with a 
not-so-intelligent overlay.
I agree completely with Giles and your rant tells us much about you.
Joep