Re:Ubuntu not ready! (Score 1)

Well, my experience with Ubuntu since 7.10 has been that the open source Ati driver that came with the distrib wasn't stable anymore at some point. I had X going to 100% CPU, this used to freeze the desktop with no way to get out with the keyboard; since 9.04 I get a black screen after a while when doing some arbitrary action like restoring a window, again without any possibility to restart X or the system safe for a cold restart. This effectively disallows Ubuntu on my machine, which has been running rock-solid under XP for years. Another sad story is Canon Pixma printers on Linux. There are drivers from Canon but not maintained. You can download and recompile yourself since the linked libs are not common anymore, but this is certainly not the way the ordinary user will do this. So I'll say I have a fairly common system and for the graphics problem alone it was unusable for years - and I was considering to switch over completely from XP at Ubuntu 7.10! Things have hardly improved for me since then. So I'll say if the graphics driver misery goes on like this Linux is not ready for the desktop.