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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: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.