Sometimes I’ll move the mouse pointer with the touchpad, and when I stop moving, the mouse keeps going in the same direction, resulting in my clicking the wrong thing.
So today, I turn on my computer. It shows the GRUB boot menu, as usual. I let it automatically choose the first of several cryptic options, as usual. It shows an Ubuntu logo, as usual. After a minute or two, the Ubuntu logo disappears and, instead of the Gnome Desktop Manager, a console login prompt appears. No errors, no indication that anything is even wrong.
I turn off the machine and try again, with the same result. I turn off the machine and try again with a different kernel, with the same result. To my knowledge, I have not changed anything that would cause this.
So I’m in Windows XP. What do you know? It boots with absolutely no problems, as it always has. Of course, all the stuff I’ve been working on exists only on my Linux EXT3 partition, which Windows can’t open. (No, Ext2IFS does not work, and I don’t trust it, anyway.)
“But Mi¢ro$oft Windoze is so buggy and unreliable! OMG BSOD LOL! You should switch to Linux, it’s sooo much more stable and reliable than that Bill Gate$ shit. Did I mention Linux is freeeeeeeeeeeee?”
Fuck you. Seriously.
And why the hell did they change all the program names in Karmic? Instead of “Text Editor”, it’s “gedit”. Instead of “Gnome Partition Manager”, it’s “GParted”.
Is this part of some campaign to make things more difficult to find?
Clicking on a link to a media file in Firefox is infuriating. Totem (which sucks) is the default media player plugin. It plays the file using the entire Firefox viewing area.
And no, MPlayer is not any better.
Pidgin often crashes for no apparent reason.
Gnome Do has has the ability to run “Home Folder”, which opens your home folder. Except not really. You run it and nothing ever happens.
This bug was reported three releases ago, can be solved by adding a space and a dot to a text file, yet it still hasn’t been fixed. This is the norm in the wonderful world of Open Source.
So if Pd is running, Nautilus and Totem refuse to play any sound, but if Totem is playing sound, Pd refuses to play sound. Also, running Pd apparently causes Firefox to lock up.
Neither produces any error messages or explanation, of course.
Trying to run it through padsp is even better, with glitches and stuttering galore.
I thought PulseAudio was supposed to fix Linux sound, not make it worse.
Sometimes the touchpad scroll inexplicably stops working, so I have to use the arrow keys.
Sometimes the arrow keys inexplicably stop working, so I have to use the touchpad scroll.
After a while, they spontaneously start working again.
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.