Comment 258 for bug 85488

I've been happily using feisty for a while, then I tried to use my canon lide20 (purchased because it was known to work with Linux). Scanbuttond works for me, thanks. I'm concerned about the above reports of the problem persisting in gutsy. Funny thing is I've got dapper on my laptop, where the scanner just works, and I wasn't aware of any laptop improvement in feisty regarding suspend.

I don't want to sound harsh, but if a decision had to be made between laptop suspend and breaking scanners, then I would suggest the feisty was not ready for release. Though if a large number of folks were bitching about laptop suspend, then I guess I understand. A lot of newbies wouldn't bother to trawl the bug reports for a fix.

That said, there's no OS without problems. Ubuntu has been a great leap forward in ease-of-installation, hardware recognition and usability. There's no way I'm going back to THAT operating system. And Ubuntu is the distro I would recommend to newcomers. BUT I will now be recommending that they install dapper and wait for either a fix or the next LTS edition. I've also logged bugs regarding gwenview, soundjuicer and Ukrainian language support, all of which work on dapper.