Top 10 Things Wrong With Linux, Today

An anonymous coward sends in this link to a list of the top ten things wrong with Linux today. He's noting things that are "wrong" not with Linux per se, but with a user's experience with Linux; most of his points actually have to do with KDE/X. The KDE 3 bug he's talking about is a user-interface change in konqueror: form elements can be changed by mousing-over them and turning the scroll wheel, which is very bad. Hopefully the KDE guys will roll this change back to the previous behavior.

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Re:Changing resolution on the fly..

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This isn't a bug -- it's a design feature.

Forcing you to change your desktop size when you want to change resolution to play a game or watch a movie is something that Windows forces you to do. It's poor Windows design, but people have gotten used to it.

XFree86 does this right. You set the desktop resolution to the highest resolution that your monitor/video card can do. If that's "too small" then you increase font sizes. Decreasing the resolution and wasting what your hardware can do is *not* the answer.