Microsoft touching up Windows 8 to address gripes

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60. I just did the latest 13.04 update and it blackscreened after the Nvidia logo

I had to force a reboot and run the dpkg recovery option to get into the GUI. When I did that, I had to ctrl-alt-delete because it hung when it tried to mount /dev/sda6, which I think is my external hard drive. After I did that, and rebooted normally, everything was fine, and Ubuntu had me fire off an error report (which I enthusiastically sent).

It worked, but still... how many "ordinary" users would have thought to do that? I even used ps -uax | more at the console (I had to ctrl-alt-F1 to get there) when it wouldn't start, and the X server wasn't even running after the update! Luckily, I'm experienced enough and familiar enough with the unix commands to do that, but I'm wondering how many less experienced users installed this update and thought it broke their computers.

Not good, Ubuntu team. Not good at all.

By the way, what's with the persistent mouse bug in X/Gnome involving losing window focus? I have to log out and log back in every time I boot into Ubuntu- and only Ubuntu, not Mint, or Fedora, or any other distro- so I can move windows around the screen and click buttons at all, and this is a bug that's been around since at least 2010, according to various forums including the official Ubuntu forums!. There was an even more opaque workaround involving entering a window focus override command at the terminal prior to 13.04, but that's no longer necessary. Now "all" I have to do is log out and log in again, as I said, but it's still annoying and needs to be permanently patched...