Comment 85 for bug 1431753

@teo1978:

Yeah, I fully agree. I recommended Ubuntu LTS to everyone I know that has been willing to either give Ubuntu a try or to users that have completely switched from Windows. My words, after they asked me why I recommend LTS over normal Ubuntu: "Use LTS if you prefer stability, support and reliability."

And now I am eating my own words.

It's nice to see this bug is getting fixed... finally... but it's sad it took so long in the first place. A lot of my friends were left with an unstable or malfunctioning system and that's a real show stopping issue, especially because the issue came unexpected after updating the system as usual. Ever since reporting this bug, I have switched to an AMD 6000 series GPU, using the open and free AMD drivers Ubuntu ships and activates at default. It's been awesome so far, gaming-wise as well.

So, personally, I am not going to lose any sleep over this issue anymore. But my friends are still using Nvidia hardware + Ubuntu 14.04.2/3 LTS and I'd like to know if the faulty Nvidia drivers (331.x?) available via the Ubuntu repos have been replaced with the drivers mentioned in this bug report that include the fix - or is the solution to activate the unstable testing/proposed repo the only way out of this mess?

Any kind of feedback is appreciated!

Thanks!

Cheers,
Alex