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LWN's 2013 Predictions

LWN's 2013 Predictions

Posted Jan 5, 2013 9:24 UTC (Sat) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)
In reply to: LWN's 2013 Predictions by nix
Parent article: LWN's 2013 Predictions

Yeah, it happens, for some reason pretty much only with Ubuntu users in my experience. Maybe because they are in a huge majority. If I get a bug report for an older version, I'll thank the reporter for the effort they took and point them to the kubuntu beta ppa, which always contains the latest version we've released. End of "problem".

I know it's attractive to see problems everywhere and argue that the status quo is broken and needs to be replaced, but for me as an application developer the current model really works a lot better for me than what I have to do on Windows. Especially if you try to push your application through one of the app stores on Windows.


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LWN's 2013 Predictions

Posted Jan 8, 2013 13:21 UTC (Tue) by jpnp (subscriber, #63341) [Link]

...for some reason pretty much only with Ubuntu users in my experience. Maybe because they are in a huge majority.
Or because Canonical provide updates for Ubuntu for a longer period, certainly compared to Fedora which has a userbase who must be much more up-to-date to receive security patches.

LWN's 2013 Predictions

Posted Jan 8, 2013 13:50 UTC (Tue) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

That's possible as well -- but I'm quite sure that I have way more users on *buntu than on Fedora.

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