I hate Ubuntu >:(

With Compiz enabled, the “Show Desktop” button doesn’t actually show the desktop.  The first click opens some windows in front of what you’re doing, and then the second click shows the desktop.

The normal Gnome desktop button, while identical in appearance, behaves as you would expect.

When I try to play 10 seconds of audio in Audacity, it plays a bunch of noise for 1.5 seconds and then stops.

I finally got video chat working!

After rebooting into Windows for a few weeks, because Pidgin and Skype don’t do video chat in Linux, I discovered that if you run Empathy (which is shit), you can video chat with people on Gmail.  In 2 out of 3 calls, one person can’t see the other, and you have to hang up and try again.  It crashes, the video locks up permanently, and while working correctly, it uses 100% of the CPU, but it works!

Take that, capitalist pigs!

Ubuntu: “Your laptop battery is low.  I’m going to shut down in 3 minutes.”

Me: “3 minutes??  Isn’t that a bit… last minute?”

*plugs in computer within 10 seconds*

Ubuntu (plugged in, charging the battery, less than 30 seconds after the last warning): “Battery is critically low, shutting down.”

Me: “FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU”

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.

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.

STOP INTERRUPTING ME BY POPPING UP WINDOWS WHILE I’M TYPING! It’s 2010 and you still do this shit?!