You may be right...
But I'm not on Ubuntu 11 or 12. I'm on 10.
My point would still be pretty valid, though - as I'm running XP on the Windows machine, and whatever is the last version of OS... Snoop Lion?
It is all a battle among dying gods trying to remain relevant, at this point...
I've got an Nvidia card in the Ubuntu box and I have to enable the restricted drivers to get all the features of the card... I imagine that hasn't changed because it is driven by FOSS idealism versus Nvidia keeping their corporate trade IP secret. I think that is part of the problem... and I wonder how good any Plug and Pray routine that is going to auto-determine appropriate configuration is going to be when it has to deal with hurdles like that...
I'm just... pessimistic... skeptical, about Linux and FOSS being able to deliver solutions that are as trouble-free as Windows... and what you are saying to me translates as,
I've got a pretty stable and reliable, well configured version of Ubuntu 10 that does most of what I want it to do... I should throw it all out the window to try a newer version that has received a lot of critical backlash because it might introduce something that solves *one* problem I am experiencing.
I mean, in effect. It could be, "you should try a whole different distro"... there are a lot of possible ways to address them. They're all potentially PITAs, in my experience and hardly ever fully pan out.
I've gone and tried solutions in VMs and had them work well, then pushed those solutions to my bare-metal installs and had them fail there. It ends up taking a lot of time. I don't mind, because I'd rather play and fight with systems than sit around watching TV shows, generally speaking... but from a user perspective... it means a very limited market.
I want to get this working because having more machines that can rip means being able to rip more in less time - because I'll have a backup ripper, and because it is "free" so I don't have to worry about my license or support lapsing and paying again and again for the same software.
