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This season has not been a happy one for advocates, I’m seeing a marked increase in Ubuntu rejections from non-technical users. Problems range from random crashes, freezing, graphics problems, too slow and usb devices becoming corrupt.

It’s not so bad when people move away from Ubuntu and move to Fedora or Debian, but it breaks my heart when people move to Windows XP or 7. Hey they gave Ubuntu a go right? But we couldn’t keep them.

Is anyone else doing more fire-fighting with instability issues in Ubuntu? I know all of my computers have issues with Ubuntu, unresolved, although I can cope or fix them as they come up. Not something everyone can do. It worries me because Ubuntu was our fresh brand, to try and get out there and if we bugger it up we’ll have to make a whole new brand to get away from bad experiences people have had.

Thoughts?

Today’s Futurama episode Overclockwise features a premise where Cubert is arrested for over-clocking the bending robot, Bender. This makes for some great satirical dialogue such as:

Overall a funny episode with a good satire of modern corruption over rights of ownership. Have you seen this episode? what did you think?

Over on launchpad, I’ve released version 1.4 of the lab-session-manager, included in this release is:

• Bug fixes for administrators and other infinate time periods
• Uses gnome’s SessionManager API to logout instead of SIGKILL
• Pauses a logout until logging of logout event has completed
• Correctly logs methods of logging out (session timeout, logoff button, off switch)

You can get your hands on the PPA and give it try here: DoctorMo’s Greeter PPA, Let me know what you think below in the comments.