Comment 33 for bug 1431753

"To be fair it is an annoying issue but not one that is so fatal one would not be able to recover a system."

It leaves the system not working. That's is more than just annoying. Also, I actually did re-install the operating system at least once because of this bug to try to get this PC working again. I actually spent about three days struggling with driver versions and trying to work out what the real problem was. I was also swopping out video cards to see if that helped. Any sane person would have gone out and bought a Windows licence and installed that instead.

"By now I just made it a habit of doing the following…"

Sadly, those instructions are the sort of reason people say Linux is not ready for the mainstream. How do I tell Auntie Margaret over the phone she just needs to "sudo dkms install -m <module> -v <module version> -k <kernel version>" ?

It might be trivial to an operating systems programmer with a computer science degree. But some of us want to USE Ubuntu-based operating systems for work purposes, not for working on.

I am sorry to add a whinge to this saga, but to imply it's just a nuisance and there's an easy workaround is not how it feels to some of the user community.