[GTALUG] Ubuntu updates

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

I'm annoyed at ubuntu's GUI Software Updates program.

Context: 14.04 LTS running on Acer Revo using proprietary nVidia drivers.

Normally I use apt-get update and upgrade to apply updates.  Today, right 
after I did that, the GUI thing told me that there were pending updates.  
So I told it to go ahead.

It proceeded to fail.  The Ubuntu crash reporter ground for a while (this 
is a first-generation Atom processor) and then said the bug was known:

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1268257>

Look at how long that has been around.  Look at how many people
(systems) are listed as affected.  Look how many duplicates of this
bug are filed.

I don't want to waste the time investigating, but it is suspicious to
me that apt-get had no problem.

I remain quite skeptical of Unbuntu's and Fedora's GUI software
updaters.