Not a huge big deal, but if I’m browsing another computer’s files through SSH, and then move them around or extract a .zip, couldn’t it tell the other computer to do the work locally instead of transferring all the files over the network and then transferring them back when it’s finished? Super slow.
Is the screen lock password box supposed to shake around erratically when you enter the wrong password? It looks like a bug, but maybe it’s some basement nerd’s attempt at being cutesy.
Trying to play audio in Wine. It stops for no reason after 10 seconds, the program locks up, and then it screeches a burst of noise into my ears. It used to work fine, but now it locks up and hogs the CPU. Inexplicable as usual.
Why is my CPU throttled-down to 1.8 GHz instead of 2.0? Is it seriously overheating from playing a Flash video?
Why can’t I double-click on .sh files to launch them? Or right-click and open them with some kind of launcher? I thought there used to be a way to do that.
I set Simple Backup Suite to back up to a 1 TB drive on my other computer. However, the drive no longer mounts when the machine boots up, so it wasn’t making backups for months, with no warning or error messages of any kind.
So then I set it up to back up to another drive with a FAT filesystem. I checked after a few weeks and it had a bunch of folders of backups. Great, it’s working!
Except not really. Since it backs up everything to a single .tgz file, and FAT filesystems can only accept a maximum file size of 4.0 GiB, it’s been silently halting and leaving corrupt, useless backup files. Smooth.
Why do I need to manually refresh Nautilus after a file is created? I thought that used to be automatic.
STOP INTERRUPTING ME BY POPPING UP WINDOWS WHILE I’M TYPING! It’s 2010 and you still do this shit?!
Why is my CPU locked at 600 MHz!? I try to set it to back to normal and it just sits there and does nothing.
Why won’t Firefox start? Why aren’t there any error messages when it terminates?
Why does the bottom right corner of my touchpad act like a right-click button now? Why is there no option to change this? Did this start happening after the upgrade to Karmic?
And why do I need two completely independent and partially redundant apps just to change the settings for my touchpad, anyway?
Why does my computer keep wigging out? The CPU goes to 100% and the mouse cursor repeatedly changes from arrow to I beam to finger, preventing me from using the mouse for about 5 seconds at a time.
Since Jaunty, the OSD volume control with multimedia keys randomly stops working. Right now, for instance, when I push the keys, the OSD pops up, but it just shows the “Mute” display no matter what I’m pushing, and the sliders don’t move. It’s not in mute, though. I’m sick of all these PulseAudio bugs.
After installing Karmic, my Bluetooth keyboard stopped working. Maybe it will work again in six months.
Why don’t untrusted .desktop files have an icon? They look like text files, which is stupid. Give them an “untrusted” icon.
Internet keeps disconnecting randomly with no explanation. Disconnecting and reconnecting doesn’t help. Killing and restarting services doesn’t help. Toggling the hardware Wi-Fi switch doesn’t help. Only a reboot will fix it.
Sound is choppy in Jaunty, which didn’t happen in Intrepid. Trying a proposed kernel to fix it with Intel cards.
Yesterday I disconnected my external USB drive so that I could copy files off it to my laptop. When I was done, I plugged it back into the desktop, where it previously worked perfectly. Now it doesn’t appear on the desktop’s shared files anymore, and when I log in locally and try to mount it, it pops up THREE different dialogs, one of which says “”.
Why is pulseaudio hogging all my bandwidth? I’m not playing any audio. You’re just sending 1,500,000 zeros per second over the network for no good reason?
AptURL windows don’t have any buttons for them on the taskbar, so if you click something else, it will open up behind other windows and there’s no way to get to it without minimizing everything. (Just like Windows!) If you try to install something else, it gives an error because of the hidden window.