Questions about Linux Mint and this list

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2022 at 11:47, Ralf Mardorf <kde.lists at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Liam, consider to ask your "technophobic mother" [1] to bisect a kernel.
> It's possible for any one at any skill level, easy-peasy. It will
> increase her self-confidence related to computer technology.

I am not sure why you are tagging me into this. I haven't participated
in this subthread since it moved on to bug reporting.

Over the 18 years (!) I've been using Ubuntu, I've reported 2 or 3
bugs that I consider to be serious. One resulted in a somewhat
panic-stricken email from the release manager on this list.

It did not get fixed. None of them received a serious fix.

Today, LibreOffice menus are mostly not usable from the keyboard; nor
ar the menus in GNOME Terminal and other apps. Keyboard access is not
considered important any more.

Ubuntu's installer still insists on creating and populating a 100%
useless ESP partition on BIOS machines, even on MBR where you only get
4 primary partitions. This got turned off for 1 release then
reappeared.

TBH I do not recommend filing bugs except to highly technical users.
If someone needs to be told how, then there is a high risk of them
reporting behaviour they do not understand as a bug when it isn't.
Even if you do understand, it's unlikely to get fixed.

I now regard it as a waste of time. :-(

Ubuntu has lost the initiative as a desktop distro and it is no longer
an especially good choice. TBH, Mint is better in most respects for
most people.

ChromeOS does what Ubuntu set out to do, and it does it better.

Mint offers Natively-packaged Firefox, Flatpak support, no Snaps, no
GNOME, etc., and a choice of clean, attractive, Windows-like desktops.

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