I switched to Ubuntu around about April last year, migrating from Debian (and a little bit of Windows). Too many brain-dead decisions* by Canonical since then mean I am looking for a new OS.
I’ve used a number of different systems while testing Rakudo and while choice is a Good ThingTM it is also making this [...]
Much the same as one upgraded from Vista to XP, I upgrade from Karmic to Jaunty today. The workarounds and hacks to fix everything that Just WorkedTM on Jaunty was too much — such as the DNS problem — everything I have tried to far resulted in working DNS but very slow internet, while in [...]
So a company that routinely removes functionality from their operating system, to avoid confusing their poor, helpless users with too many checkboxes and features, ships a release with broken DNS resolving?
I think, from an end-user point-of-view, “not breaking the internet” should be a lot higher up in the scale than helping out people that “don’t [...]
