On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 07:08 -0600, Marshall Neill wrote:
Now, new features that no one really asked for are implemented and the bugs keep piling up and extensions that worked, don't, themes that worked, don't.
I actually agree that GNOME in general would probably be better off if we put more effort into fixing bugs and less into adding new buggy things. GNOME is nowhere near as stable or reliable as proprietary platforms. But everything Emmanuelle said in his response is true, too. GNOME Shell is probably one of the more stable modules. I would say that in general, the applications have bigger issues. Also, some applications are really stable compared to others. If you really don't like bugs, my recommendation is to choose a stable distro with old software, like Debian, and file bugs in that distribution's bugtracker if there's a fix you'd like to see backported. Older software doesn't necessarily mean fewer bugs, but it does mean fewer new bugs.
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