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Re:Canonical asks desktop users to “pay what you think Ubunt... by fdr on Thursday October 11, 2012 @11:30PM (#4643736)
They don't have the power to block a release if a three year old laptop is broken. Hence, not nearly good enough. If there was a System76 distro and it wasn't terrible in other dimensions then we'd be talking about something interesting.
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Re:Canonical asks desktop users to “pay what you think Ubunt... by k_bx on Friday October 12, 2012 @06:53AM (#4644490)
Well, I agree that they don't have such power right now, but I don't think it's currently biggest bottleneck (linux doesn't break that often, + LTS releases get more and more usable, for example 12.04 is already good).

The bigger thing currently is to simply buy something and know it will 100% work with at least current Ubuntu. That's unfortune, but it's true.

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