Comment 1165 for bug 1

>>You can do that. You can upgrade whatever you want. You can have an
LTS with bleeding edge Firefox and Open Office. Just not supported by
Ubuntu.<<

I feel that, if ubuntu is going to fix this 'bug', it *needs* to address this. I am a 'soft target' as far as ubuntu is concerned. I develop software myself (mostly embedded systems), so am more willing than most to 'get my hands dirty' and sort things out.

Despite that I have neither the time nor the inclination to spend a week every six months trying to sort out why my perfectly good setup has suddenly stopped working, due to a host of new 'features', just to keep my main apps up to date.

OK - I'll stick with the LTS (assuming 10.04 delivers) and update the apps myself (or find a different distro that isn't so obsessed with change).

Joe Public will not be so forgiving. Since I installed 9.04, updates have done nothing for me but stopping my wireless network working, mysteriously messing with the UI so as to completely muck up my setup and wiping out my thuderbird configuration.

Unless I was a bit of a techie, I'd just have given up and gone back to M$.....

Ubuntu looks by far the most accessible distro and is widely recommended. It just can't afford to throw away an initial good experience like this....

Just promoting mature, well tested LTS versions (rather than the latest) to new users and keeping the apps up to date in that would be a vast improvement.