What's the one thing you hate about Gnu/Linux?

deaduserlol · 2010-02-17 00:41:28

Hello everyone, this is my first post.

What's the one thing you hate about Gnu/Linux or any other FOSS OS?

I would say Xorg. Mainly because it asynchronous and that cause windows tears.
Try resizing a window. See how it kind of jumps. It bugs me
I only wish something would replace Xorg soon.

olovram · 2010-02-17 00:48:29

there will be blood

deaduserlol · 2010-02-17 00:49:25

olovram wrote:

there will be blood

Why do you say that?

jasonwryan · 2010-02-17 00:56:00

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=85474

(But maybe this is the big things?)

anrxc · 2010-02-17 01:06:01

One? There are numerous things related to the modern distribution. Someone summarized it nicely ("proven to work with ~%70 of all hardware") just hours ago http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 94#p710294

brebs · 2010-02-17 01:48:55

deaduserlol wrote:

Try resizing a window. See how it kind of jumps.

Should be fixed. I find the pf patchset convenient.

the one thing you hate

Backwards-compatibility is cheerfully broken, about a hundred times too often.

Linux is free, because people wouldn't want to pay a company in return for such treatment.

Misfit138 · 2010-02-17 02:03:57

brebs wrote:

the one thing you hate
Backwards-compatibility is cheerfully broken, about a hundred times too often.

,..not to mention regression.

Linux is free, because people wouldn't want to pay a company in return for such treatment.

Agreed.
People (and especially companies) actually prefer to pay for operating systems; it transfers responsibility and reprehensibility onto an external entity when something goes wrong.

samuele.mattiuzzo · 2010-02-17 02:17:22

problems playing with games
and there's nothing like ableton / traktor here...
and i need visual studio to work, with mono isn't the same thing

rsambuca · 2010-02-17 02:44:20

Trying to watch the Olympics online is infuriating. I Keep getting told to install moonlight/silverlight, eventhough I have already installed it.

sand_man · 2010-02-17 02:45:16

I don't hate any of it.

bangkok_manouel · 2010-02-17 02:55:59

samuele.mattiuzzo wrote:

and there's nothing like ableton / traktor here...

did you try energyXT ? [1] it's a closed source, commercial application but should be very close to what you're looking for. try the demo, it has no limitation (except saving your projects) and it runs natively on linux.

[1] http://www.energy-xt.com/

Anikom15 · 2010-02-17 03:13:21

rsambuca wrote:

Trying to watch the Olympics online is infuriating. I Keep getting told to install moonlight/silverlight, eventhough I have already installed it.

Unless you need to see a specific sport, local NBC has all the good stuff, IMO.

On topic, the one thing I hate is the lack of X.org standards. There are standards, but they're not followed.

EDIT: and the pro-Europe bias!

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radiomist · 2010-02-17 06:20:49

Xorg...

bloated code for a poor performance

fuse · 2010-02-17 06:47:49

ALSA would be at the top of my list.

Berticus · 2010-02-17 07:13:21

fuse wrote:

ALSA would be at the top of my list.

If you don't like ALSA, don't you always have the option of OSS?

I also dislike Xorg.

fukawi2 · 2010-02-17 07:39:01

Dual Screens.... PITA to get working, and *keep* working.

fuse · 2010-02-17 10:16:10

Berticus wrote:

fuse wrote:
ALSA would be at the top of my list.
If you don't like ALSA, don't you always have the option of OSS?
I also dislike Xorg.

OSS would be the jelly in my hate sandwich. Sound in general is what I should have said. Its to complex while too limited. Now this is just my opinion. I have multiple input / output devices. One of two situations always happens. The device is not supported by OSS or I have to jump through hoops with ALSA which just isn't worth my time.

Barrucadu · 2010-02-17 11:00:55

Wireless. My wireless card usually works great (iwl4965), but sometimes it just won't connect to any network, for hours or days on end. Then it'll suddenly start working again randomly.

sand_man · 2010-02-17 11:25:16

radiomist wrote:

Xorg...
bloated code for a poor performance

I really get tired of people saying this. What proof do you have to back that claim?

grey · 2010-02-17 11:26:23

For me it's something more abstract: that it is very often ridiculously difficult to figure out why things don't work. I'd have expected one of the major differences between a closed and an open system to be that if things go bump, in the open system it's easier to find out why. But from what I've seen so far that is not the case. Not sure how to summarize it - "lack of built-in debuggability" maybe.

Granted, Arch is a lot better than the "proven to work on 70% of all hardware out of the box" distributions in that respect, but the problem has more to do with applications than with distributions in the first place.

barzam · 2010-02-17 13:06:42

"How do I enable the cube?", but I don't see it as much as I used to.

Bralkein · 2010-02-17 13:31:10

I hate the lack of good, complete, open graphics drivers across all hardware types. Worst of all, I do not see a solution to this in the near or middle future

I used to hate XFree86/X.org but I think it makes good progress these days, especially with the limited manpower.

Netsu · 2010-02-17 13:33:04

Games, that's the only reason why I installed Windows recently. Long time ago, when I was playing a musician, Ableton was also a pain.

hatten · 2010-02-17 14:07:29

That too many peopele still use windows?

n0dix · 2010-02-17 15:35:50

i miss Counter Strike Source!! I can't played in Arch.

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