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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.
I would say there are a lot more than 10 things wrong, but that's just me.. btw, fp?
You know it
SEXUALISTS.
Do they think about others? No. These are the people who want to forcibly and repeatedly dip their phallus in their girlfriend's mucous-filled bag for noone's pleasure but their own.
Do they think about user interface? No. These are the people that think the germ-infested, pus-filled, oozing human body (especially the human female) is a thing of beauty! I'm shocked and sickened.
These are the same people that think ejaculation INTO SOMEONE ELSE is the height of pleasure! Do you know how DISCUSTING that is? To shoot sticky, organic goo into some girl or guy? How fucking gross!
Of course they don't care. Linux is designed by sexualists (albeit sexualists that never actually get any) who have little regard for anything except their blood-filled, ejaculate delivering tubes. What we need is an operating system designed by someone else.
WHAT WE NEED IS AN OPERATING SYSTEM DESIGNED BY STATUEPHILES!
Think about it:
An operating system designed with aesthetic beauty in mind!
An operating system designed from a non-organic viewpoint!
An operating system designed to lift up the beauty of the human form, not glorify the squishy, discusting sexual process!
AN OPERATING SYSTEM MADE OUT OF STONE!
I am thinking of calling it StoneOS. Included (free as in beer!) will be several pictures of hot young actresses ALL TURNED TO STONE! Petrification abounds!
Maybe someday you will join us, and the world will live as one. Go in peace, brother, and avoid the infested, squishy, mucous-plugged world of sex!
Love Always,
Cobalt
(posting anonymously since there is no free speech on slashdot)
GNOME 2 is wrong. it is so much wrong.
realize it and think one minute about this.
linux is not windows. if you want the easy of use of windows then use windows. linux is different and it hopefully stays that way. linux is also nothing for wannabe experts.
as Windows XP. Microsoft is a massive company, they can afford to hire the smartest programmers. I think it is great that thousands of wheel chair bound programmers with typing wands lued to their head haev decided to code for linux. But we can't expect these people to be as good as MS programmers.
$350 for the home user version- they talk about Microsft prices!!! And this "licence" has to be renewed at a cost of $50 every 12 months. is it any wonder Joe Average user is sticking with MS, they provide higher quality software and charge less. Someone needs to look at Linux pricing.
pretty lame troll. Linux home edition can be had for as little as $250, and licence renewal is only on enteprise versions. But then you know that, don't you?
Yeah but he has a point, $250 is still too much.
Well it was the best $250 I ever spent. Sure I can't play my dvd's or mp3's, but I am free of MS, and for me it is worth the sacrifice. I think this is the message we should be sending to ppl. Until Linux gets a more solid userbase, the important apps like word processors, mp3 players, dvd players, web browsers, will not happen.
Who are the programmers and what are they concerned with? Mostly men. Just make it work. Form follows function, blah blah blah.
If you wan't it to be beautiful or easy to use(ergonomics) find a woman.
Woman coders who will not leave a project in such a state of ugliness. Who don't care if it works, but only that its beautiful.
There must be balance in the force.
>is out of mainstream. You are the quintessential Linux user who has
>had to suffer (if you dont consider it suffering then you probably
>need to get out a little more) through the FAQ and all the HOWTO
>manuals and now you want all Linux users to suffer though these
>needless complex and cryptic manuals and instructions.
>
Go play with your Amiga, dipshit. We neither want or need your kind.
> Very good article. Basically sums up what I've
:/
> been thinking.. I hope it all gets fixed soon!
no, not a good article. i'm not having any of that guy's problems. sounds suspicously like another window's user who wants linux to be more like winodws.
i think if he dropped kde and/or gnome, his linux eXPerience might improve.
NEWSFLASH: linux might not be easy to use. window's users should NOT use linux.
you have to read (and learn) to get maximum use/fun out of linux. window's users need not apply.
anybody ELSE tired of reading this crap from linux/window's users who dont' want to read/learn about their os?
Mozilla 1.1 also does AA on Mac OS X and to be honest I reckon it looks better without it.
So if one browser gets better, and then because of the pressure another gets better, too, this is bad? Maybe we should remove some features from one of them to make another look better? It's sad that we would have to downgrade the capability of something before we are able to make a choice.
I rewrote my rc/boot scripts myself from scratch. I haven't had this problem for 3 years.
We need better standards among printers. Much of the problem is due to so many different kinds of printers, different drivers, different data formats. One single standard is needed and vendors must be force to comply.
I still haven't figured out how to do a number of things on my MS Windows 98 machine. For example, how do I tell Windows that my hardware clock runs as UTC and that it should still show me my local time.
This is more of a programming problem. Certain programmers think that they need to first erase the screen then rewrite it. Back before Linux, I wrote an editor for DOS, and I wrote my own screen window manager for it. The editor could simply open up window objects and update them much like curses, but simpler. When refresh was called, the screen was updated, but there was no flicker because it was never erased first. It simply updated everything, period. Parts that were changing content just changed. Parts that were not changing, didn't. And mine was so fast I could still do scrolling by full screen rewrites even on a 16 MHz machine.
Programming problem again. Teach programmers how to deal with the real world.
Why do you want access to my files? Leave me alone.
Like printers, this is a vendor problem. Find vendors who do a better job of not always changing the driver-to-hardware interface, and favor them over the vendors that keep screwing people over with the next board version. There is no reason every piece of hardware needs to have its own driver disk included, even for MS Windows (and this is a big cause of many system problems in Windows, too ... Bill Gates has said so).
What you are asking for is to show text as if it had newlines, when in fact it has none. Maybe you should be writing HTML instead of plain ASCII text. Don't mail it to me w/o newlines. But if you want to be able to reformat a range of text, maybe you should try emacs.
I just changed my resolution on the fly while entering this line of text by pressing the Ctrl-Alt-KeypadMinus combo. Then I pressed Ctrl-Alt-KeypadPlus to revert back.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars