Jesus! I hate 11.04, WTF happened? This is awful. Somebody's head should be smacked!

[Tom H]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:
>
> Similarly, if you're looking for stability on a production machine, why not
> simply use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS? I'm an IT professional using 100% GNU/Linux for
> the last ten years, and I wonder what it is that you're possibly looking for
> in Ubuntu 11.04 that's not featured in 10.04 or 10.10. If you want to use
> Unity *and* have a rock-solid system under the hood, then why not simply
> wait until next year, until 12.04 LTS comes out? Leave the
> alpha-and-beta-testing hassle to the developers.

A CentOS user's perspective! :)

Except that you're confusing a longer support period with stability.

Moreover, some people like to help the developers by testing alphas/betas.

The current crop of alphas/betas is interesting. The OP didn't say
what prompted his rant (regarding FF 4.0, I don't really understand
since it isn't radically different from FF 3.6) but the new shell
interfaces are breaking new ground:

Unity's scroll bars
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/unity-to-get-overlay-scrollbars.html

GNOME 3's shell's max-min buttons
http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/where-did-the-buttons-go/

Elementary Project's alternative
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/02/elementarys-slingshot-plank-apps-just-what-are-they-and-why/

And Mint's announced that it'll use GNOME 3 in its 11.04 derivative
(as opposed to Natty's GNOME 2) and that'll not use gnome-shell.

Some people might decide to give all this stuff a miss and move to
KDE/XFCE/LXDE...