Your final thoughts on Breezy?

[weekend warrior]

So here we are, a day away from Dapper's official release (and Breezy's demise so to speak). Do you have any last thoughts on Breezy you'd like to share? Do you think it was a good, bad, or so-so release? Have you been satisfied overall with it over the past eight months? What were some good things and/or bad things about it? How would you rate Breezy compared to Warty and Hoary? (and Dapper if you're already using it) Did things pretty much "just work" for you or did you have more than your fair share of problems? In short, was Breezy easy or sleazy?



Oh and just a reminder to any fanboys or trolls - everyone's entitled to their opinion - live and let live. The last nails are about to be hammered into Breezy's coffin anyway so... vive la difference!

[megahertza]

Well I'm a 100% Ubuntu Linux user now, befor ubuntu I was 100% Win XP. I think that says it all

[ade234uk]

Breezy allowed me to finally ditch Windows once and for all. The primary reason was finding automatix. Please it is important Automatix can be installed in Dapper. It is one big reason people will use Ubuntu. First impressions count.

[lapsey]

Wireless networking oh god

Nautilus constantly crashing thanks to smbfs

are both things i will not miss.


Breezy did everything I needed except multimedia (Design, Video editing, Photo editing, Sequencing). I just hope Dapper goes some way towards supplying some o these

[megahertza]

I forgot the whole Open Source Freedom bit to

[bruce89]

Please it is important Automatix can be installed in Dapper.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=177646

[weekend warrior]

Somewhat lukewarm response so far... *tumbleweed blows by*... not surprising I guess. Personally I think Breezy was a pretty lukewarm (sometimes half-baked) release and a mediocre performer to be honest, never living up to its potential. It wasn't as good as the others and won't be remembered as anything special in the long run, with Dapper easily eclipsing it.

[PatrickMay16]

I'm not sure what to think, what with that password-in-installation-logs glitch. Also after upgrading from hoary I experienced some annoying problems with the theme manager sometimes refusing to start and it seems like the version of xmms in the breezy repositories has an annoying glitch which causes it to hang around after you close it by clicking the close button. Dunno though.

Anyway, apart from that, Breezy was good. I think I'll wait until I get the Dapper CDs that I ordered before I upgrade, though. Also I'm going to back up all of my data that I can, just to be safe.

[Rikostan]

I only ran breezy for a couple of months.. from March till about a week ago and I have to say I was pretty satisfied with it. I still have a windows box for gaming, but that is the only thing I do on it and I am even doing more and more gaming on ubuntu as well.


So I was happy with Breezy, but I am even more happy that Dapper is here.

[xtacocorex]

I installed Breezy on a whim when my harddrive that had my XP/Hoary dual boot started to crap out.

I was more skeptical of Breezy, but I installed it and was very glad I did. Yeah, it didn't work as well as Hoary did right off the bat, but I got it working there and it has succeeded in keeping me from trying FC5. I used to be a loyal Fedora user, upgraded RH9 to FC2 then skipped FC3 because my computer didn't like the installation cd's I burned and ran FC4 for 7 months.

I am looking forward to Dapper. This will be the first Ubuntu release that I'll actually upgrade to when it comes out.

I won't to say that Breezy is dead, but if I wasn't satisfied with what I've seen and heard about Dapper, I'd still use it for a couple of months before upgrading.