[ubuntu-za] 13.04 First thoughts

[Jan Greeff]

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
>