Unity: Nothing can go wrong!

[Samuel Thurston]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:06 PM, chris <chevhq at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 12:50 -0500, Samuel Thurston wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:58 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 16 April 2011 09:46, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Nothing can go wrong! Nothing can go wr!"&%!£%"^!%£!"""@@@@@@@@@@@@
>> >> 5 out of 11 testers managed to crash Unity:
>> >> http://digitizor.com/2011/04/15/crashed-unity-canonical-study/
>> >> How far are we from release day?
>> >
>> >
>> > The rest of the results are pretty dismal too:
>> >
>> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-April/032988.html
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> You know, I wouldn't mind this so much.  I'm a stubborn user and I
>> don't mind things being crashy, submitting bug reports, etc.
>>
>> However, my concern is the impact this has on the linux desktop in a
>> larger context.  This kind of bad press associated with the
>> most-popular linux distro in this day and age, may be just what it
>> took to set linux back another 5 years.
>>
>> Planning to release a product with an unfinished and under-tested DE
>> is suicidally irresponsible.   Much as I hate to say it I suspect that
>> canonical's days may be numbered as a result of this.
>>
>
> Yes, I have been trying to make this point for some time.  I personally
> consider the drive to have a "release" every 6 months", could be an
> indication of an unstable organisation.  :-)  Or as my wife puts it "you
> insane lot".

I don't think that this schedule is completely unreasonable.  The
problem is when you make "big shifts" on this kind of timetable,
without having prepped the work in the background.

When I first heard that ubuntu would shift to unity I was skeptical
but optimistic that multitouch and other stuff being brought in along
with a new interface.

When i heard the reasons fedora was dumping unity, i expected ubuntu
to follow suit.  Deeply dismaying that it did not.

>
> I do personally know several people who have dumped Ubuntu, and moved to
> Debian stable.  Their argument being that they want a working system
> they can use, not something that they have to triage and fiddle with
> constantly.

Ugh, never going back to debian stable, having 2-year old software
isn't why I run linux. but I think we're going to see a mass exodus
with this release.