Thread: Ubuntu in top 10 most disappointing technologies

1. It's a very mediocre development platform. The tools are weak, the stack is fragmented, multifaceted, incompatible, and in many cases, broken (audio, video, UI, networking, printing. There isn't much left..). 2. Backward and forward compatibility are broken. Red Queen game. 3. Hardware support is either missing or incomplete (anecdote: non of my video cards are supported well. My dual-monitor nVidia setup is broken, my radeon r200 has extremely slow compared to XP, and my i945gse netbook is utterly broken. three out of three is impressive..). 4. Ubuntu is a closed product - it's a monolithic packages, that gets updated at once every 6 months - you're basically stuck with a rotating set of regression, whatever not in the repositories is problematic to install (either because it may break the current setup, future updates, or whatever). 5. Regressions, even critical ones, are common. It is not trustworthy, nor reliable. X crashes, stuff stops working, critical bugs are not fixed in a long time. 6. The base system UI is crude, the working experience isn't competitive. Metadata indexing is the standard for the last couple of years, while Ubuntu is yet to implement a working solution (Beagle is a slow resource hog, tracker is broken, neither are integrated with the base system). It's not about the theme - XP and Vista are both ugly, IMHO, it's about functionality - the UI isn't as functional as the competition.