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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[damiam]

#1: No best browser He claims that Mozilla/Galeon can't do AA. This is untrue. Add the following to your prefs.js:

pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", true);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
pref("font.antialias.min", 16);
pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/usr/share/fonts/truetype");

// AA with Bitmap scaling.
pref("font.scale.aa_bitmap.enable", true);
//pref("font.scale.aa_bitmap.always", true);
pref("font.scale.aa_bitmap.min", 16);

#2: Prompting for a FS scan I'm using Debian sid and ext3, and I've never seen this problem.

#5: Cleaner redraws GTK2 implements double-buffering, and I've yet to see any flicker in GTK2 programs.

#7: Easy way of sharing files. The Ximian Setup Tools have an easy NFS/Samba shares config tool. Not exactly what he wants, but quite good.

#9: No common editor which supports "soft wrapping." I've never had a problem with the way wrapping is done in Linux editors. If you really want it "soft", you can use Abiword.