Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala . The Register

[Fred A. Miller]

Only around 10 per cent of those upgrading or installing reported a
completely flawless experience.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/karmic_koala_frustration/

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[Steven Susbauer-4]

On 11/03/2009 11:26 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> Only around 10 per cent of those upgrading or installing reported a
> completely flawless experience.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/karmic_koala_frustration/
>

According to the poll on the forums[1], 37.81% of users had extreme
issues. Less than 30% had flawless, with the majority having a few
problems here and there. It looks like the article was published before
many users had actually posted their experience.

I still believe this is too high, but it does not seem as dire as some
have reported. Lots of issues to be worked out.

I find it interesting that the article quotes w00ly complaining about
encryption while installing 9.04, don't know if it's a typo or misplaced
commentary.


[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305924


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[Eduardo Daudt Flach]

I had a flawless upgrade!
I updated from web and had no problems at all.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller@...> wrote:

Only around 10 per cent of those upgrading or installing reported a
completely flawless experience.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/karmic_koala_frustration/

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[Derek Broughton]

Fred A. Miller wrote:

> Only around 10 per cent of those upgrading or installing reported a
> completely flawless experience.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/karmic_koala_frustration/
>

Naturally.  The folks who install flawlessly don't have anything to say...
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[Scott-251]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Naturally.  The folks who install flawlessly don't have anything to say...
True, I am one who have yet to have a single problem with any of my
computers and I did not mention anything. :)

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[Fred Roller]

Scott wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
>  
>> Naturally.  The folks who install flawlessly don't have anything to say...
>>    
> True, I am one who have yet to have a single problem with any of my
> computers and I did not mention anything. :)
>
>  
Aside from a few quirks my are good installs, nothing worth mentioning.

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[thomas-257]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> Fred A. Miller wrote:
>
>  
>> Only around 10 per cent of those upgrading or installing reported a
>> completely flawless experience.
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/karmic_koala_frustration/
>>
>>    
>
> Naturally.  The folks who install flawlessly don't have anything to say...
>  

I am having problems too. I suspect that a lot of people got upgraded, as I
did, without realizing what was happening until it was too late. Despite the
fact that LINUX is somewhat better than Windows I got burnt so many times
by the latest and greatest releases of DOS and Windows that I learned a
long time ago that it is very risky to be among the first adopters. I
had a lot
of problems going from Windows to Ubuntu and am scared.

For a new users dealing with problems can be a big wall, or locked door.

I am hoping that the problems will be fixed with 9.10 and future upgrades
will include the fixes.

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thomas <valhalla2100@...> wrote:
> I got burnt so many times by the latest and greatest releases of DOS
> and Windows that I learned a long time ago that it is very risky to
> be among the first adopters. I had a lot
> of problems going from Windows to Ubuntu and am scared.

The Beta and RC was in pretty widespread use for a while before the
release date, which *should* have ironed out many bugs.
But I think one problem Ubuntu might be facing here is a large
proportion of beta 'testers' who do so to have the bleeding-edge
software rather than for the rigorous expulsion of bugs. And a
peculiarly large install base on near-identical hardware (VirtualBox)

There certainly seemed to be fewer problems than I was expecting given
the large changes.

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