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Top 10 Things Wrong With Linux, Today

Posted by michael on from the it-doesn't-make-me-lunch dept.

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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  1. Re:Sheesh by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "It's like saying 'or why do we need a X button to close a window when alt-f4 does the trick?"

    No no, Alt+f4 is a Windows thing. Here's what does the trick:

    1.) Open a Shell window
    2.) Log in as Root
    3.) Then type 'ps axu | grep my_process_name' (replacing 'my process name' with the name of your window...' and get the GID or UID to indetify it.
    4.) Type in: "wcls -xywzvbeha p:(put in the U/GID here

    That is so much more powerful than Alt+f4 because once you put in the window ID then you can't possibly close the wrong program by accident!

    Damn you Windows users are thick! heh :)

  2. Re:Changing resolution on the fly.. by nehril · · Score: 5, Funny

    amen. I mean, really, all a user needs to do is kill X, run vi, edit /etc/X11/fubarity/XF86Config, scroll down, add a

    Screen /dev/tty/Fubaritybuffer = 800^$%^600 @ 76q
    fb=/dev/null.

    Then boot X and get ready to pull the plug fast if your monitor starts making sizzling sounds as it is driven out of spec.

    Of course, unless you have an Nvidia card, in which case you must rot-13 the entire XF86Config file. I can't believe people say X is hard to use, or that anyone is stupid enough to "misuse the program." There is obviously no problem here.

  3. How obvious? by paine+in+the+ass · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't help thinking you were about to suggest a little animated figure should occasionally pop up and say, "It looks like you're trying to [fill in blank]! Would you like help?"

  4. Re:Quibbles by Rinikusu · · Score: 2, Funny

    /* Well, maybe you're more l33t than me, but when it asks me if I want to fix inode xxx my questions often are: */

    You forgot one:

    4. What the fuck is an inode?

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