Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Nov 2007 11:12 UTC, submitted by trinitrotolueen
"This is something I never thought I'd hear myself say - or maybe I should say, see myself type - about an Apple operating system: Mac OSX Leopard was released before it was ready. This operating system needed more testing on more systems with more hardware, and especially, more software configurations. The days of Apple computers operating with just the Mac OS and Adobe Photoshop installed, and practically nothing else to speak of, are long gone, and Apple knows this as well as anyone. This operating system was not properly beta tested, and Apple's customers are paying for it, with lost productivity and inoperative computers."
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Member since:2006-10-28
It not as though Fedora isn't a cutting edge test release for red hat. Ubuntu said Gutsy will be buggy so they can cram more development in to get ready for hardy heron the more stable release. So I think those two might be forgiven. The other four OS's on your list were supposed to be releases of production quality.
Edited 2007-11-25 15:21
Member since:2007-11-25
Fedora 8 is aweful. I can't even start up X on some hardware (including mine), and it's slow, buggy, and bloated.
I was very disappointed with Fedora 8. Its unstable, slow, the theme sucks and everything seems broken, Wine doesn't work on the stock kernel for me, etc...
Seems like its been a bad few months for new OSs.
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2005-07-12
Sure seems like there is a lot of crap being released in the OS world these days -
Leopard has had big problems, including, *gasp*, blue screens of death, and an inexcusible bug of data loss when transferring data from one drive to antother.
Vista has been nothing short of stunningly aweful - slow, buggy, many apps, and much hardware not working, and riddled with DRM.
Fedora 8 is aweful. I can't even start up X on some hardware (including mine), and it's slow, buggy, and bloated.
Mandriva looks great, but enables numlock, regardless of whether the machine is a laptop or not.
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, in my experience, has been a rather buggy release when compared to Feisty Fawn (I wont' go into all of Gutsy's bugs that I've experienced - don't have the time right now).
openSUSE is rather solid (and nice looking), but makes some rather dumb design decisions - like the slab menu and enabling Beagle (huge resource hog) by default.
And to anybody that is a fanboy of one of the above mentioned OS's that says "Well, I didn't experience those problems, therefore they're irrelevent" (like a Mac fanboy has already done here in this thread), shut the f%$# up.
Fact is, if some people have experienced those problems, and the number who have is unusually large, you have a serious QA problem.
What is also appalling about this case (Leopard's bugs), is Apple's reaction to complaints on discussion forums. The act of locking threads that have people complaining about bugs is irreprehensible, and is blatent censorship, and is a pathetic attempt to cover up known issues. Shame on you Apple. Just stand up honorably and take the well deserved criticism like real men, and pull you heads out of your behinds enlough to realize that many of your loyal customers are pissed, and admit the problems and fix them rapidly. Closing threads only makes you look like whimpy @ssholes.
Okay, off my soapbox. ;-)