“You typed the wrong password” would be too straightforward?
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.
- It always stutters and glitches when it starts playing.
- There’s no way to rewind it and start over. If you’re quick, you can grab the slider and move it, but it just ignores the position of the slider and keeps on playing, no matter what.
- There’s no way to replay the file after it’s played once. The Play button is now grayed out.
- It always shows its extremely shitty visualization while playing sound files. No, you cannot turn it off.
And no, MPlayer is not any better.
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.



