10.04? No thanks, I give up!

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:30 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 2010 19:20:03 +0800
> Chan Chung Hang Christopher<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>
>> That LTS badge is meaningless if it just means we shall ensure
>> security fixes for the next x years.
>>
> It isn't meaningless.  It just has a meaning that people don't expect
> and /doesn't/ have the meaning they /do/ expect.  Nowhere does it claim
> to be bugless or stable.
>


Come right up! We be walking in the paths of the proven and glorious and 
successful Microsoft! This be Linux for the masses just like Windows is 
for the masses!

Given that most stability problems today with Windows XP (not touched 
Vista or 7 yet) are down to incompatibility between third-party software 
(possibly mucking around with libraries being stuffed into the wrong 
places) or exposing it to infection, that makes Windows XP look way 
better than Ubuntu. Vista was just a case of Fedora 9 fever with the 
higher-ups out with a big brother hand. It would appear that they 
quickly took their medicine and Windows 7 probably does not have some of 
the nonsense that came with the initial release of Vista.

So except for over zealous madness like scanning all media files before 
they are copied, Windows Vista don't mess up your system due to alpha 
ware. If they have clue enough not to release non-working or 
half-working stuff, why can't any distribution of Linux have that as a 
baseline standard? And I thought that this sort of thing was rather 
specific to the Kubuntu team but I guess it's the whole Ubuntu developer 
community.

If you cannot be bothered to ensure that it is free of bugs causing 
major problems be it data loss or usability, then I am not interested. 
We don't claim bugless or stability. You call that an excuse?