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Tue, 16 Dec 2008

You make a grown man ...

... cry.

In my prior entry, I noted that I resigned from Debian. I also upgraded my system to Ubuntu.

This is my story.

The good

since the tools are based upon Debian, easy to upgrade to.
much usage of dpkg -P --force-depends && apt-get -f install occurred
most things Just Worked
always had either suspend or hibernate working before. Now have both working. Cool.
I like how Gnome has a 'personality', makes it even nicer.
splash-y boot is nice. Makes other people go 'schweet'.
Having the single-user mode option come up with a menu of options is good
Unfortunately neither 'netroot' nor 'fsck' work correctly. The latter should NOT run the init scripts first.

The bad

managed to futz video
managed to futz networking
Would be great if there was a command line network manager tool that connected to the network
managed to break sounds
stock Gnome, which I have been using for ages, sucks.
hard to just update to packages in jaunty/main.

I want to switch all the 'core' packages over to the Ubuntu versions. This is seemingly impossible unless I do: apt-get -du upgrade and note which packages came from 'jaunty/main' (but I bet there is some easy fix)
why no OpenOffice 3.0?

Odd that they are willing to break with Debian on: X, Gnome, Firefox, the kernel but not this.

The ugly

found 2 bugs; one already reported, gave a work-around
reporting bugs is painful (hello? why do I need a browser to do this?)

I have found another 2 bugs but I do not have the time to interrupt my browser workflow to report them. Reportbug is basically perfect. Just re-use it. Whoever thought 'ubuntu-bug' using '-p' and '-P' is a good idea was ... not thinking clearly.
ubuntu forums typically have the error message

But then lots of (rather) useless bleating and uninformed suggestions -- avoid them at all costs
the wiki is horribly outdated

see KernelWiki e.g. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Roadmap
no way to 'reset' things easily

system-clean is okay, but what about terminal 1? Should ctrl-alt-1 work?
interesting, firefox has a 'ubuntu addon' that does specific stuff.

Why not just use iceweaseal, and then add back in the branding and addon stuff if required? Would make for greater re-use.
why does the user switch applet default to showing your name?

Who is not always sure of their name? Why take up so many pixels? Not clear.

Something that I think would be very useful, would be a script that took a stable Debian release and updated you to the latest Ubuntu LTS. In the past I used be okay with the release cycle that Debian had but now-a-days, I think I would prefer knowing an upgrade is coming every 24 months and be able to plan for it.

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