Will Feisty Fawn be teh new hotness?

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Ardvark

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Seeing as we have a lot of Ubuntu-users, will the next release be teh new hotness? I can see how it could be ignored, with a new release every 6th month, but on the other hand, they have a lot of new stuff in this release. So...will it?
 
The difference in usability is pretty amazing. There's a ton of new support for laptops, batteries/power management, wireless, and other hardware. There's other improvements like when you try to play a file with a codec you don't have, Synaptic pops up and downloads it for you.
 
I move between different wireless networks, some with WEP one WPA and one unsecured. The only things stopping me from using Edgy as my primary OS is better WEP support and support for my external TV card. How will feisty differ in terms of WEP support?
 
No im talkin about the whole "Only open source drivers as default" thing is prventing any distro from becoming mainsteam. Unbuntu is trying so hard to get it to the masses, but will never succeed unless they get over the "no propriatory drivers".
 
Nah, but if Vista continues to slide, the next one might. I see Ubuntu really hitting a sweet spot around version 9 or 10.
 
When will any distro of Linux be as easy to use as Windows or Mac OS?

Last I tried it was a year or two ago and you still had to compile shit and hunt down libraries and even with that I still couldn't get any programs to install and run. I've tried Ubuntu, Mandrake, Gentoo, and Red Hat, and couldn't get anywhere with any of them. Every program requires some stupid library that it doesn't come with, arrange files and edit config files and all sorts of nonsense. Is writing an installer THAT hard?

And the only help I can get is "RTFM n00b!" which is fine I guess for people who have no life and can waste hours upon days learning how to assemble some software LEGO kit from hell, but I just can't be bothered.
 
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