Comment 579 for bug 1

It's now almost 2 year since I've written something about this bug here (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/62) and it's now about 1 year since I've lost fait that this bug will be solved before I die. Yet it's time to make a review if anything has changed regarding this bug.

To draw a resume: Ubuntu has nothing achived in this last year. It couldn't gain anything on Windows, it only margially gained on other Linux distributions and it even lost on MacOSX.

How can anybody spend his spare time (his most precious live time) for a project with doesn't make any progression! Nothing significant has been achieved in this year. Windows ist still the vast leading system and even seems to gain in some parts. Windows doesn't anymore trap that often into a blue screen. Windows drivers are mostly delivered through Windows Update and are mostly uptodate. And there are still countless of Windows-only applications out there.

There is still no easy usable Mailer/Calender/Communicator application in Ubuntu. There are still only these horrible GTK+ applications available. There are still countless driver problems when using new or even sometime old hardware. Installing and accessing printers is still something which often doesn't work. The display through X-server looks awfull, fonts are more or less not viewable.

I'm asking, does Ubuntu really plan to fix this short commings anytime or has it given up?

O. Wyss