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Ubuntu has recently started a new program designed to identify and fix 100 minor nuisances in the Ubuntu desktop. This project, which is referred to as One Hundred Paper Cuts, is designed to improve the user’s experience while using Ubuntu and personally I applaud the devs for initiating this long overdue band-aid.
I have been a long time user of Ubuntu since it’s early days, but have just recently switched to Arch Linux due in part to current performance issues between Ubuntu and my graphics card. In the past week I have been fiddling around with the most recent version of Ubuntu and can’t help but notice the progress that has been made in just one year.
I’m not alone in applauding the swift progress that Ubuntu has made in the desktop world. And I’m also not alone in my disappointments that some minor issues have brought me while using this distro. My biggest beef in this area has been that significant progress is being made in some areas while current or past problems have been largely ignored. Ubuntu aims to fix this.
You can help with 100 Paper Cuts
Users of Ubuntu can help in the process by submitting bugs to the Ubuntu Launchpad site and flagging them as “papercuts”. The powers that be will then attempt to identify and fix 100 of these problems and implement them in the next release of Ubuntu (9.10 Karmic Koala).
This couldn’t have come at a better time. Making the effort to identify and resolve multiple tiny annoyances with the Ubuntu system will only help improve it’s usability and also help push it toward the 2012 Mayan prophecy of the year of the Linux Desktop.
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