[ubuntu-za] 13.04 First thoughts

[Johan Mynhardt]

On 27 April 2013 10:46, Jan Greeff <jan at verslank.net> wrote:
> Thanks Wikus. This tells me it will be useless of not insane to update
> beyond 12.04 at this stage.
>
> Jan
>
>
> On 27/04/2013 10:29, Wikus wrote:
>>
>> Hi all , my first thoughts on 13.04.
>>
>> Apart from Ubuntu still being unable to provide screen drivers that
>> actually works things are going ok.
>> It is very disappointing and frustrating to see that after so many years
>> Ubuntu are still unable to solve
>> something as basic as screen drivers. I have an ATI 5470 that is a very
>> new card , only about 7 months
>> old and the ATI drivers doesn't even work. The main driver keeps throwing
>> "unsupported hardware" errors
>> and when I use the "updates" drivers Ubuntu doesn't even start up at all.
>> Thank goodness I made a Redo image
>> before installing drivers so I could get my system back.
>> Ubuntu and hardware devs really should stop worrying about all the bells
>> and whistles and should start concentrating
>> on getting basics such as screen drivers sorted. It is very hard to try
>> and convert users to Ubuntu if they can't even have
>> a basic thing such as screen drivers.
>> And what is worse , they are going backwards. On 12.04 the drivers worked
>> perfectly for ATI. On 13.04 they don't.
>> And I don't even care if there is some "advanced way" of installing them.
>> A basic user does not have the time nor should
>> he/she be required to spend hours or days on advanced solutions just to
>> get screem drivers working.
>> And the excuse of "it's an in between release" is also no good.
>> LTS doesn't support software updates for major things like Libre Office ,
>> vlc and many more. Only security and some software
>> are supported with updates. So the user are forced to use the "in between"
>> releases if he/she wants the most updated software.
>> And with the support shortened you are also forced to to install every
>> release. So they have to sort out EVERY release and get
>> these basics right.
>>
>> A lot of the repositories are also not up to date yet. Another thing I
>> don't understand. Daily builds and betas are available
>> from long before the stable release that devs can use , so why should we
>> not have updated repositories on release ?
>>
>> Performance wise it is not faster at all than 12.04 LTS. But it is much
>> better that 12.10. ( on my system at least )
>>
>> So early days yet. But so far ( apart from not having screen drivers that
>> work ) everything is mostly good.
>>
>> - Wikus
>>

Hmm, different experience from my side.

I am not upgrading my production laptop from 12.04 LTS (converted from
Ubuntu to Xubuntu using the xubuntu package) because everything is
working and I don't need to go find reasons to spend time fixing stuff
:P

But I have upgraded my dad's Xubuntu on his laptop and I'm quite
impressed by the performance increase (and I'm not the only one to
notice that).

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