[ubuntu-za] 13.04 First thoughts

[Quintin van Rooyen]

Hi Wikus.

On Apr 27, 2013 10:30 AM, "Wikus" <wikus at cheetah-microsystems.com> 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.

Hardware drivers are a vendor issue. Ubuntu generally ships with the best
the vendor offers. Which drivers ship with this release?

I did see ATI released new drivers this week that possibly broke stuff. Or
maybe that fixes things.

> 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 )

On ky wife's computer there was no visible diggerence between those two. I
skipped 12.10 on my laptop though.
>
> So early days yet. But so far ( apart from not having screen drivers that
work ) everything is mostly good.
>
> - Wikus
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