
Jason White wrote:
Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Unfortunately Ubuntu decided that the one second delay to hit Esc was still too slow, so they removed it; instead from 9.10 onwards you must hit shift or alt at exactly the right moment.
That isn't good for usability.
Ubuntu keep making decisions that I don't like, and hence I'm not an Ubuntu user. Recent reports by an Ubuntu maintainer about their development and release process are disturbing; the central claim is that due to the six-month cycle, the quality of releases is declining and there is a strong tendency to include new features before they are complete or reliable.
Hear, hear. For example, ifupdown 0.7 alpha is apparently in 11.10 so that they can squash all its bugs before the 12.04 LTS release -- but if you're on 11.10, that's just tough. If someone insists on running Ubuntu, especially on a server, I would strongly encourage them to at least stick to LTS releases.