Comment 23 for bug 24828

Kristian: we all fixed that ourselves, I personally am worried for newbies who will just not understand why e.g. google earth is unusable on their system, and will trash ubuntu. Many of them will trash GNU/linux "in toto", because ubuntu is nowadays advertised as the "best and easiest to use" linux distribution by many people. Being the latter a good thing, why shouldn't it be really so? Ubuntu is really easy to set up and to use, and apt to newbies, the problem in my opinion is mainly to fix bugs.

If to use ubuntu as they want, newbies must learn how to look for a solution on the web, understand what ipv6 is and how to blacklist kernel modules, you can't surely claim ubuntu is for newbies. Marking this bug as a "wishlist" does not help. It is a serious breakage, not for everybody but for many people.

In any case, discussing it here seems not to be that fruitful, if and when I will have time, I will try to discuss it on the development mailing list.