> There were over 25 million Ubuntu users at last count
And Ubuntu and Unity are still a bug ridden mess. I know it's about money and manpower and it's hard to fix sometimes complicated bugs but I've switched to KDE recently just because of the annoying bugs in 13.10.
Some examples:
- No Menu on Eclipse Kepler (it's only the most used FOSS IDE) - there is a workaround on askubuntu through.
- While moving a lot of files with nautilus my system starts grinding - turns out gvsd-metadata occopius 4GB memory and one cpu core. Nautilus uses 1GB memory and and another CPU core.
- indicator-application uses 100% CPU randomly
- Firefox colors are pale after switching windows
- Random artifacts on GUI elements while working with the system for a longer time.
- Drag and Drop does not work reliably.
- Switching Windows and Workspaces does not work reliable.
- I can start Firefox in Lightdm without beeing logged in. Just add an event then Evolution starts up. Let's you also happily sends Mail through the lightdm user.
- Without Evolution adding an event does nothing. Just does not work.
> I can start Firefox in Lightdm
without beeing logged in. Just add
an event then Evolution starts up.
Let's you also happily sends Mail
through the lightdm user.
That's pretty darn bad. You have reported this, right?
Some of these issues are also happening in 12.04 LTS. We use Unity and 12.04 LTS on 40 workstations at my university. I'm at the moment the student admin so I'm seeing maybe more bugs than others. All of these issues are on launchpad but nobody cares. My professor - after switching from 8.09 to 12.04 could reliable reproduce several unity bugs in the window switching and icon handle code.
If Unity and Ubuntu would be more stable and more polished (e.g. good support for legacy apps like ghostview and emacs/xemacs in Unity) and stable file management, few memory leaks - it would be an fantastic system. I really like Unity and the ideas behind it but sometimes you can't really work the system.
And Ubuntu and Unity are still a bug ridden mess. I know it's about money and manpower and it's hard to fix sometimes complicated bugs but I've switched to KDE recently just because of the annoying bugs in 13.10.
Some examples:
- No Menu on Eclipse Kepler (it's only the most used FOSS IDE) - there is a workaround on askubuntu through.
- While moving a lot of files with nautilus my system starts grinding - turns out gvsd-metadata occopius 4GB memory and one cpu core. Nautilus uses 1GB memory and and another CPU core.
- indicator-application uses 100% CPU randomly
- Firefox colors are pale after switching windows
- Random artifacts on GUI elements while working with the system for a longer time.
- Drag and Drop does not work reliably.
- Switching Windows and Workspaces does not work reliable.
- I can start Firefox in Lightdm without beeing logged in. Just add an event then Evolution starts up. Let's you also happily sends Mail through the lightdm user.
- Without Evolution adding an event does nothing. Just does not work.
- etc.pp
KDE exhibits none of these problems so far.