Re: [Banshee-List] The dumbest error in Banshee

["Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

I understand your feeling. I felt it myself. But lately I've come to 
realise that when this happens, we're just being a victim of our own 
"technology-versionitis". Like Martin C. says in his first sentence (the 
only one that may be worth it), past releases of OS and tools are 
normally very mature and stable. And it's actually thanks to users like 
you and me, which like to test the new stuff and report the problems, 
that these things end up being fixed.

So, yes, it's a kind of a paradox but to really benefit from open 
source, you have to stick with the old, or rather, the not-so-new. Which 
means that you cannot really contribute that much to the community 
(because by using the old, bug reports are not that useful) if you do 
this...

So what I do is take a hybrid approach: use not-so-new systems for my 
daily usage, and for my family members (and friends who trust what I 
install to them) and only play with shiny toys in a separate "sandboxed" 
environment.

Cheers!

On 11/26/2011 04:33 AM, Martin G wrote:
> Andres,
>
> Thanks for your calm and reasoned reply. It's commendable that you
> didn't lower yourself to my level of heated exchange.
>
> To be honest, my frustration with Ubuntu, open source, and, I'm sorry
> to say Banshee, is rather wide right now, so that issue became a
> "straw that broke the camel's back" problem.
>
> As I am writing this right now, Banshee is frozen because for some
> reason it now freezes every time I try and connect to my remote audio
> device. And then it becomes a zombie process that will not die no
> matter what kill commands I throw at it, so I have to reboot.
>
> This is just one of many, many, many bugs, hiccups, and problems I
> have experienced since upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10 (including, but not
> limited to, Banshee, which is one of the key software for me as I'm an
> music-phile), so overall I am just sick of constantly battling my
> computers for the last few weeks.
>
> I like what Banshee aspires to be, and I am rooting for you. However,
> I am just feeling very jaded at the moment. The promise of open source
> that I have bought into for the last seven years is not coming to
> fruition as I had hoped it would.
>
> So... anyway... I hope these bugs get solved. I hope Banshee becomes
> rock solid (and doesn't pull an Amarok and suddenly just throw away
> one interface for another).
>
> In the meantime... I don't know. The only thing keeping me sticking
> with Ubuntu and software like Banshee is that I'm not sure it gets
> that much better on Windows or Apple. Which isn't a great endorsement.