What do you dislike most about Linux?

[gymophett]

Well. I LOVE Ubuntu but I have a few things I dislike.
1)The game support. (which isn't Linux's fault).
2)The hardware support. (again, not theit fault).
3)Compiling files, and the pain of installing some things. Like tar.gz files. Yuckk. I wish there were more Deb, but I'm sure there will be a big increase in Deb files over a short period of time.
4)The tweaking you have to do when you first install it.

But I guess that's it. I would never go back to Windows. I may dual boot it one day, but never use it as my main OS. What about you guys?

[Don1500]

Multi Media (audio) recording is useless. This is one of the only rasons I still have Windows, Cool Edit Pro.

[gymophett]

Multi Media (audio) recording is useless. This is one of the only rasons I still have Windows, Cool Edit Pro.

So true.

[cerealtx]

off topic, try posting this is the community forum

[gymophett]

off topic, try posting this is the community forum

Sorry about that =/
Its not letting me delete it or mark it as solved :$

[DigiTan]

Ah, forget about it. It will just get moved.


My top dislikes are the sudden crashes. My WinXP is a lot more stable than some people here will accept. But I've been using Live CD less than a month and I've already fought more random reboots than I care to relive. At least with XP crashes you're thrown a message to provide clues. When Linux crashes, it's lights out.

Secondly, it has major ACPI issues. Just try a forum search for it. Not only is the problem widespread, but it spans so many versions, chipsets, and technologies in general it makes the entire Debian base look disreputable. Yet the fixes are so simple and direct, you wonder why no one bothered to implement them. Maybe the answer to that is clear to the Linux experts here, but thousands of new guys like me are going to want an explanation for that.

...And that's enough rant muscle flexing. Maybe I'm a grouchy, over-demanding user, but these are just a couple pressing issues the future distros will have to confront before they will close the gap on any proprietary OS.

[Kareeser]

Random reboots? That could be indicative of some sort of hardware incompatibility with Linux, for whatever reason.

Are you using any specialized hardware that isn't mainstream?

I haven't experienced any random reboots on any of the computers I use and maintain. Not once :)

[listerdl]

I dislike nothing about a free product.

The people on this forum are awesome - the support is magnificent.

Windows ripped us all off for so long.

There is very little that GNU/Linux doesnt NOT do that windows does - according to me of course!

I think that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is an AMAZING charity but that is all that Gates has done that is good. He should have opened Windows and let us all have contributed and grown together in a mass wiki-way 15 years ago.

OK Rant Over. LONG LIVE GNU/LINUX!!!

[oldsoundguy]

In reality, too da** many people dividing their efforts on too many builds .. let it settle out into just a couple from which to choose and all of the "well I really want MINE to be the best" developers wasting all that precious time on re-inventing the wheel.
Can you just imagine the progress that could be made if they combined all that talent and energy?

[DigiTan]

Random reboots? That could be indicative of some sort of hardware incompatibility with Linux, for whatever reason.

Are you using any specialized hardware that isn't mainstream?

I haven't experienced any random reboots on any of the computers I use and maintain. Not once :)


Yeah, at first everyone said it could be hardware. I even came close to paying for a bigger PSU. After hours of researching google, ubuntuforums, forums.debian.net, and others I found out it was a mix of acpi and irq polling issues. Sadly, a lot of others in my position got misdiagnosed all the time because the reboots are so abrupt.

[t9nbpd6d]

Well, it can be a little tricky at times. Some programs aren't very good working. And for all my problems, well, there's Ubuntu forums :)

[t9nbpd6d]

Well, as you can see, I'm fairly new to Ubuntu, Ecxtremely new to Ubuntu forums

[XanGabriel]

Well. I LOVE Ubuntu but I have a few things I dislike.
1)The game support. (which isn't Linux's fault).
2)The hardware support. (again, not theit fault).
3)Compiling files, and the pain of installing some things. Like tar.gz files. Yuckk. I wish there were more Deb, but I'm sure there will be a big increase in Deb files over a short period of time.
4)The tweaking you have to do when you first install it.

But I guess that's it. I would never go back to Windows. I may dual boot it one day, but never use it as my main OS. What about you guys?

It IS an open source OS, so some disadvantages come with the territory (if you're a noob or straight up dunce like me(with NO implication at all directed toward anyone)), but one thing I totally dislike is along with the initial tweaking one must do for their system (again, I'm new to open source software); I'm having the worst time trying to get this 1440x900 resolution for my screen, which should have been auto-detected. I'm running on an ATI Radeon X1900xTx, which is notorious for overheating like crazy, and the lack of fan control, or even my apparent inability to get the sensors to even work right... :( If anyone could PM me some pointers for these two things, it would be GREATLY appreciated... I'm catching on very slowly, but even with my hours of searching for solutions, I can't figure out why these two things aren't working for me... :(

And before this gets any farther off topic, I'll close with my saying that Ubuntu is already more preferable over Windows, even in my confusion.

[N4zgu1]

Open office, I think that microsoft office is better, the feature that I miss the most is smartart

I would like more games for linux, but that is fault of the games companies

[-kg-]

I'm having the worst time trying to get this 1440x900 resolution for my screen, which should have been auto-detected. I'm running on an ATI Radeon X1900xTx, which is notorious for overheating like crazy, and the lack of fan control, or even my apparent inability to get the sensors to even work right... :( If anyone could PM me some pointers for these two things, it would be GREATLY appreciated... I'm catching on very slowly, but even with my hours of searching for solutions, I can't figure out why these two things aren't working for me... :(


What you might do is to post these problems in a properly titled post. Since these are somewhat of a more advanced and specific set of problems, I would suggest posting them in "Hardware and Laptops" or "Multimedia and Video," since you would be more likely to get an answer in those forums. I would try "Hardware and Laptops," since it is basically a hardware compatibility problem.

As far as the overheating video card goes; do you have a slot fan installed above (or below) your video card? A slot fan is a big help with routing heat away from a video (or other high-powered PCI card). I have one installed in my desktop over my video card and have had for several years now.

In reality, too da** many people dividing their efforts on too many builds .. let it settle out into just a couple from which to choose and all of the "well I really want MINE to be the best" developers wasting all that precious time on re-inventing the wheel.
Can you just imagine the progress that could be made if they combined all that talent and energy?

Of course, that is the very definition of "Open Source" and the very reason that many come to Linux. You're free to take the kernel and develop it any way you like as a means to any end you like. Perhaps many are "reinventing the wheel," but, taking that old saying literally, if people had not reinvented the wheel, we might not have car wheels, bicycle wheels, wagon wheels, tractor wheels, wheels for rollerskates, et. al.

IMHO, variety is the spice of life and that is what Linux offers in all it's permutations. You have distros that are for beginners, advanced users, multimedia producers, minimal (and VERY minimal) installations, and a whole host of different uses; whatever use you have in mind.

That, or stay with Windows and let Microsoft tell you what you like and determine what you get. Not that I'm saying that's bad...it's more than sufficient and desirable for some people.

For beginners in Linux Ubuntu is one of the best distros, with the most helpful forum that I've seen out there. Once you learn a bit about Linux in general, you can try out some of the other distros as you desire to see if they might do something specific that you want to do a little better.

[Don1500]

In reality, too da** many people dividing their efforts on too many builds .. let it settle out into just a couple from which to choose and all of the "well I really want MINE to be the best" developers wasting all that precious time on re-inventing the wheel.
Can you just imagine the progress that could be made if they combined all that talent and energy?

So ture, but if you get all the sides to agree on just ONE, I would nominate you to settle the mid-East.





Your puppy ate my Red Hat! Ubuntu to you, too!

[Foster Grant]

All the arguments about how one distro is better than another because that distro has no binary blobs and therefore is holier than thyne in the eyes of RMS, or how one distro is better than another because that distro has the binary blobs the user's just going to download anyway to make the computer functional.

Close runner-up: My desktop environment is cooler/kooler/more enlightened than your because ___________________________.

:)

[karellen]

All the arguments about how one distro is better than another because that distro has no binary blobs and therefore is holier than thyne in the eyes of RMS, or how one distro is better than another because that distro has the binary blobs the user's just going to download anyway to make the computer functional.

Close runner-up: My desktop environment is cooler/kooler/more enlightened than your because ___________________________.

:)

I subscribe to these. There's nothing I dislike more about Linux than the attitude of some of its zealots - "whoever uses Windows is dumb/brainwashed/corporate drone/...proprietary software is evil/using Linux makes you smarter/cooler/righteous". infantile behaviors, if you ask me