Quantity over quality is the new motto of "open source everything"

Folks, this is not getting ridiculous anymore - this is ludicrous. Your users do not need or want a new major version of the OS every year which you are pumping out. The users need quality and stability over all.

Once in your lifetime, stop and look at Microsoft. They are anything but stupid. Microsoft releases a new major version of their OS once every 3-5 years and drops support after about 5-7 years at least. It matters not how smug you think of Microsoft - they are protecting the clients investments into IT, while you are NOT.

All mainstream Linux distributors pump out 1-2 major versions a year. We are on 25th Fedora over the past 10-12 years or so. We are on Ubuntu 16. FreeBSD accelerated their releases and pumping out more than 1 major release a year. Even ZeroShell router OS published a few quick half-baked versions between 3.0 and 3.7 at the speed of light while the users kept reporting complete show-stopper problems with each release which never got addressed. The speed at which you drop support due to "end of life" is horrifying! Most of the time this means a complete freeze on the updates and even removal of them from the update servers, as if extra few GB cost is of paramount importance these days.

"Open source" has become the opposite of its intended and pronounced goal: to develop quality alternative to the paid software products. Quality is simply not there anymore.

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KDE God knows which version follows Gnome 3 down the toilet

They are no longer even showing the version of KDE running from the Help menu of the KDE programs such as Kwrite... And that is fine! What's the point, after the "development team" or "KDE community", whatever those twits call themselves, butchered KDE beyond belief?

Why am I ranting again? Well, here's why: after installing Fedora 25 "the latest and greatest" glorious most recent version I realized that everything I was afraid of for the last few years finally came to pass. My readers remember me being frustrated with Gnome 2 turning into a smartphone-like Gnome 3 and thus becoming summarily useless POS. The same thing just happened to KDE.

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Adobe Acrobat Reader for Linux cannot print

Today I tried to print a shipping label. It was created by the post office web site in a landscape orientation, but Linux Adobe Reader insisted on printing it in portrait.

I turned on "Auto Rotate and Fit" in the print dialog options, but it wasted another corrupt portrait page.

I switched orientation from Portrait to Landscape, keeping the auto-rotate option. It wasted another corrupt page.

Finally getting fed up I saved the PDF to a Windows machine, logged into Windows and opened the file in Windows Adobe Reader. It printed the correctly oriented landscape page right away even though on Windows the print dialog did not have orientation option at all.

Adobe, before you release - test 456!

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