> My real gripe here is the regression.
Regression happens in software. Linux and Ubuntu didn't invent the
word regression. That word was used in medicine and probably even
applied to computers long before Linus was even born.
Again, all OSes and Applications are victims of this. Some more than
others. Sometimes a development process is flawed and you get regression
every other version. For instance, I remember the original version of
RedHat we would see a bug come up every other version and our theory at
Kiva on it was that they had two development teams at Redhat working on
two different major versions.
And there have been several instances of OSes that were major
mistakes.
Windows Vista
Windows ME
RedHat 8
Maybe Ubuntu 9.10 falls into this category.
I know there are more but can't think of them right now.
It happens. Its unfortunate when people jump into an operating system
at one of these points and get the wrong impression of it. Its
equally unfortunate when someone gets an OS that turns out to be great
(Windows 7), but don't know what hell they are in for in the next
version
> Not with these sorts of problems, no. Grandma and Grandpa might be able
> to use KDE or Gnome if everything was setup for them already and working
> beautifully and they learned things by rote, but troubleshooting these
> sorts of problems? No chance in hell...They'll probably have to live
> with some minor annoyances as well. Understanding the GUI? It depends on
> what they do with their computers, I guess.
I often here this argument about learning things by rote and its funny
because things have been more consistent on open source desktops and
have lasted longer than on Windows. Almost every version of Windows
looks different and puts icons in different places.
Sometimes after I upgrade to a new version of Gnome, I login thinking
"Wow, this is gonna be cool, I can't wait to see how different it looks"
and then I login and think, hmmmm, it looks about the same. ;-)
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Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
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