Comments for My issues with Linux et al

Just to show you how ignorant you are about linux when you bash linux because of gnome. I will paste linus's comments about gnome here(btw Linus Torvald is the person who created the linux kernel. which is all linux is. Gnome, pulse audio are applications created by other people that can be used with the linux kernel).
"I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE. This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do. Please, just tell people to use KDE." Also, "Gnome seems to be developed by interface nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.""

your frustrations with thunderbird could be partially solved with lightning, and maybe a look thru the extensions. most of my issues with linux go back to X and the seemingly random breakings. i'm sure if linux received the kind of hardware support windows does, the o/s would be spectacular on every system. but i find a lot of different issues from minor to so major nothing works... and i'm sure it's mostly hareware support issues.

As for pulse audio, i don't have any problem with it. When it start going bad, it's pretty random. But as for now, with fedora9. Everything works fine.

As for X crash, it never happened for me except of the nvidia driver. The nvidia driver doesn't really work well with multiple screen.
And as for compiz, nvidia driver with new card give worst performance than with old card. Let say, my 7900gs was capped at 60 fps, and the 8800 gt of my friend to 60 fps.

My 7900gs would never go slower than 60fps with reflection. While the 8800gt would go down to 30fps.
This isn't necessarly a compiz bug if nvidia driver give poor performance and unstable desktop.

I wanted to use a windows app in Ubuntu and put in a bug report to wine as it didn't quite work. After getting 2 bugs fixed in 4 months I realized it will take until the year 2050 before that app works with wine. I am now using Virtualbox which is amazing and makes Wine look pathetic. Maybe in the future we will have a program that will allow windows programs to work with Ubuntu without having to put in bug reports . Winedoors comes close but not close enough. I have an XP license and am happy to use something that makes a windows program work on ubuntu without having to use windows itself. Maybe this is not possible. Until then I use virtual box but am forced to use XP by default on my eeePC as it's not fast enough to run Xubuntu and virtual box.
I agree Ubuntu can be frustrating and everytime you ask for something you get the reply "get involved" Not everyone wants to or has the time and yet we keep hearing Linux users jump for joy when more and more people use the product. I think that when the masses start to use it there will be even less programmers willing to participate for free and more and more folks who seem it as a way to make a buck. Then it will become just another Dinosaur that had a great philosophy that worked for a while. A bit like hippies in the sixties :)

some valid points there but I have to say, if you require windows only apps and don't want to run a VM or WINE support isn't good then for gods sake just dual boot or something. Can you run windows apps natively on a Mac without virtualisation? NO! Neither can you run any kind of *nix binary on Windows without some virtualisation. Seriously, grow up and stop whinging about that.

However, you're absolutely right about pulse audio. It's a piece of shit. It really, really is.

PROTIP: On any new install do two things. 1) Remove pulse audio completely and 2) Only use the wine binaries from WineHQ. Ubuntu's build of wine is shit, always has been.

My thought when reading this was: "Wow, Linux really is making huge progress." About two years ago the most common complaint about Linux was that most people couldn't get it to boot at all. And now you are complaining that the icons don't align the way you like.

I would just love to read your blog article if you had been using Linux for the past years and then switched to Windows. They also have a thing or two you can't adjust.

After using Windows since 3.1 and then switching to Ubuntu last year I have to say both are crap (i.e. "have their shortcomings"), but at least I didn't pay for Ubuntu. Enough said. :)

Really? You shopped around and you picked Ubuntu, no offense but you seem like you like to customize a lot, wouldn't it make sense to pick a distro that lets you, Ubuntu is designed (in my opinion) as a stepping stone distro, to get you to learn enough about Linux to use another distro that doesn't do everything for you, I think many of you problem would be solved if you left Ubuntu, maybe you are not ready for LFS (Linux from Scratch) but at least try Gentoo or Fedora.