Comment 61 for bug 1045914

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Karen Zagorski
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> Most ppl r not open source religious. I am not. I use linux not for
> ideas, but for comfort.I used it for many years, because it was better
> then windows. Now it becomes worse.

Yes, Windows is constantly improving (not sure about Windows 8).
Meanwhile, Linux desktop is doing CADT.
http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

> Stability? Errors from the moment I log in.

Can you tell which program crashes?
I don't have this myself but I've heard of similar things.

> Comfort? Not even funny.

I don't know what you exactly mean.
If GNOME (S)hell and Unity annoyed you.

GNOME hell is hell, they just break a quite successful desktop
metaphor and give some half baked tablet metaphor instead.
I encourage GNOME refugee to use MATE (GNOME 2 fork) or Xfce.
They both have several solvable glitches but after all decent.

Unity is probably not appealing to Windows (before 8) or GNOME 2 users.
It is actually quite familiar for those who used to OS X metaphor.
It is more buggy, unfortunately.
I met some Wine and NM that only happens on Unity, I don't have a clue.
Last but not least, Unity uses many GNOME components anyway, so any
GNOME's junk will eventually pass to Unity.

> Bugfixes faster? Not any more.

It depends on distribution I guess.
Ubuntu developers won't fix anything that requires a large debdiff
after stable release (unless it is a security bug).

> BTW, I just saw that R/T zoom was removed from totem player. Not a bug,
> it is exactly removed. Normal good working function is just sent to fire
> for no rational reason. Only thing that kept me using totem, not VLC or
> mplayer exists no more. And wma support autoinstalls no more. Now... Why
> would a rational me go on with linux, if every good thing on it is
> geting destroyed?O_o I guess i just still hope.

I'm sorry. What is R/T zoom?
For WMA support, shouldn't you just install ubuntu-restricted-extras
package at once?
( I do see this as a bug, I haven't used WMA for years, can you tell
me how to get a WMA file for test? )
Anyway, GNOME devs remove features (Yes, Present Simple Tense).
I'd check whether MATE forked Totem.
The future of Totem, I believe, looks like:
https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Videos
( You should indeed put your hope on brands other than GNOME )

> Well i'm gonna go back to lucid or even smth earlier... But if linux and
> ubuntu don't come bach to human side, then no reason to keep using it.
> Mandriva died in a very similar manner. 2009 version was full of new
> stuff and totally useless.

What about Mageia?
Mageia is a Mandriva fork that seems to have a quite active and
healthy community.