worst release in recent memory

[MG&TL]

I was talking about ordinary people. Not about alpha/beta testers who want to 'study system'.

Oi! We're "ordinary people" too. Just a bit more mad than you lot.

[Chdslv]

TS = topic starter.
I was talking about ordinary people. Not about alpha/beta testers who want to 'study system'. No one is told that a release is unusable by ordinary people.

We are ordinary people. We don't test for Ubuntu, but we test for ourselves, getting into trouble and getting out of them, and we test ourselves.

This release is one of the best I have seen!

Have a good day!

[Tamlynmac]

stalkingwolf
Both people and hardware. In the case of people we olders have a different mind set we may be a bit slower but we just keep going. Kind of like the turtle and the hare.

+1
Oscar Wilde - "With age comes wisdom"

[ronniew]

Wrong place to write about that. If Ubuntu would end up with less test users, you might as well say the Linux world is ending. In the world of MS Windows users, there are two alternate OSs--Mac OS and Ubuntu, not Linux and now Android. There are lot sellers and users, who sell/use Ubuntu computers/laptops without even knowing the word Linux.

There are always alphas and betas. When Ubuntu releases the final, Ubuntu always say the development of this release had stopped, but the updates would continue to a prescribed date.

Now that Ubuntu had moved to make 13.04, there would be thousands of users, who would wait for the alpha 1 and start testing, and even start using that as the main distro, even though they had downloaded 12.10!

Again, you are wrong here. Old hardware won't last that long. The hardware gets worn out, faster than the OS. And with anyone, who shops, get bombarded by "offers" by now, pay later, 0 interest, etc would eventually buy a new one, or buy a used one. Even the Lubuntu users would start using 13.04 alpha as soon as it is released. You could, of course install Unity, Gnome-shell, etc in Lubuntu too and the old hardware works very well with that.

Now, you are talking my language!

Not in this country. Even the i3 is considered old now. You can buy an i3 for half the price. An i7 is considered new, until i9 becomes cheaper. The prices are going down rapidly everyday!

Core 2 duo is considered pretty old, like a 60 year old man. Ubuntu 12.10 is running on a Pentium 3 with 700 MB memory right now.

You are very welcome, but be positive minded!

I'm just going to assume your very inexperienced and possibly still a kid living at home. Because your comments have very little actual real life experience as far as old hardware not lasting that long and what is considered old and or what people can afford and not afford. If that were the case I wouldn't spot as many P4's machines still running in peoples homes and businesses.. My guess is that you still have mom & dad paying for things or you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Because the country I'm currently in, (which is the same as yours) is getting poorer everyday and broke is becoming the norm.

Old hardware won't last that long LOL thats a joke, I've loaded Lubuntu on 15 year old machines and many many 5 - 10 year old machines... I've also watched OS's drop support for hardware (particularly video cards) in just 2 - 3 years... So... like I said, little life experience.

[ronniew]

Also this was a thread about "LUBUNTU" not regular Ubuntu so not sure how unity and all the other desktops got involved in this conversation.

[deadflowr]

Also this was a thread about "LUBUNTU" not regular Ubuntu so not sure how unity and all the other desktops got involved in this conversation.

Because you only mentioned lubuntu after 20 posts.
It's safe to assume that people thought you were running a vanilla Ubuntu, as nothing in the first post, or thread title stated otherwise.

[nothingspecial]

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