Comment 1683 for bug 1

At first I'm a developer as well. And adding features, features, features and refactoring all the times keeps the bugs left back on track, or worse, is introducing new bugs. And this is what makes me upset about unity. Its receiving features and refactorings but no stabilizations. It seems to me that nobody takes care of the many stability issues.

ie. This Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nvidia-drivers-ubuntu/+bug/728745 is still open as "undecided". And the "Fix Released" for unity is bad joke: "We added the graphics card to blacklist ..." wtf?

By unstable I mean:
- Window decorator disappears (crashes) randomly in 11.10
- Unity is freezing the whole desktop. In 11.04 win Nvidia GF7 series and, since ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10 (latest upgrades) with GF8 series
- In Ubuntu 11.10 Unity is freezing randomly
- It's sometimes not reactin properly to the Super-Key (in version 11.10 - 12.04 is freezing so untestable)

This seems to be related to the nvidia proprietary driver which is not open source and not fixable.
But why the heck is Canonical making their primary desktop environment dependent to proprietary graphics drivers? And why are other desktop environments working smoothly with the proprietary drivers?

There are issues reported for the latest nvidia driver causing these issues due to a security fix.
Why is canonical not using an stable, known working version of the driver. They're restrictive with all other software (i.e. PHP is still 5.3 but could easily be upgraded to 5.4) but the essentials are updated to untested bleeding edge. What the hell?

Provide bleeding edge packages for the people who desire to use it but use well tested software especially for LTS.
It's disappointing and it started with making Unity the primary DE.

I really like the Unity concept:
* It's intuitive
* It's easy
* It saves time

But that doesn't help a thing when it's freezing my desktop and I cannot use it.

"Otherwise many techies just assume you're an idiot and the instability is user-error because that's what it so often turns out to be."
And this is the way Ubuntu want's gain market share? Well good luck then ...

Btw:
I don't want to reinstall everything when going to the next distro version with the probability that it will still not work. Then I could use MS Windows with the exception that it spares me from "probably it will not work either"!