Ubuntu
fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #1510573
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 1510573

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Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This bug hindered user wt newer AMD to use the Upgrade. It was mentioned int the Release-Notes -so they would just endup with a black-screen. The severity has to be judged as highly critical. The culpürit was in this case AMD not beeing ready for the swift to GCC-5. This doesn't interest a user in the 1st place. The publisher of software in general has a responsibilty not to leave a user w/t a unfunctional system. A Standard user will judge his HW borked & broken on Linux. So this does not even hurt Ubuntu's-Image but the Image of the movement in a whole. This happens over and over in the last years. And people are feed with this.

Options:

1. Delay release date until fix is tested and implemented.
2. Ubitquity the Installer has the option to add a comment not to tick "yes" when it comes to the questions - Do you want to install 3rd partie Drivers.

This is a pitfall beyond believe – and it makes people turn away. Pls see also bug #1493888, reported on 9.9.2015

Hopefully this will lead to a blueprint for improvement?