Comment 147 for bug 554172

I agree also. Most of you are much better than I when you are getting deep into the working of an operating system. I have not tried the "comment 83" fix for fear of breaking something and creating a royal mess.

I was new to Ubuntu and Linux in February 2009. Since then I've installed Ubuntu on 20 machines. I started with 8.10, and then progressed through 9.04, 9.10, and now 10.04. I've converted about 10 people to Ubuntu from Windows. Everything was fine until 10.04. I originally thought that each version would be building on and improving the previous release. That held true until 10.04. I filed the initial bug about color printers printing with a cream colored background instead of white. To see the garbled word Ubuntu on systems which were upgraded and long periods of a black screen make it seem like it was released before it was ready, just like Vista. My experience with Vista is one of the reasons I'm running Ubuntu. To have seen the repository builds of OpenOffice not having a functioning spell checker was a disgrace. To have some systems through all releases not being able to come out of hibernation without powering down and rebooting and that issue never being fixed. But how do I explain to those whom I converted to Ubuntu that a major issue like their printers not working isn't fixed for over 2 months after the version was released. And this is an LTS?????? The spell checker was fixed. Within a week there was a work around for the cream colored background, and in about 3 weeks a fix was put out in the updates. The spell checker now works in OpenOffice. A clean install is the only thing which gives a somewhat decent view of the boot process during boot. It seems quite ridiculous though that this printing issue isn't fixed. I have two machines affected by this. The strange thing is some of my machines have never had the issue.