1. Having the largest market share doesn't mean it's the best, see VHS vs Beta, among others...
2. I didn't say the fix for window buttons was easy. I said the *instructions* to fix the problem were *simple*, and they are. Simply copy and paste a command into a terminal. Any competent computer user should know how to do that. I was trying to be helpful, not play semantic games.
3. I agree with your assessment of Canonical's priorities, they're even toying with putting window menus on the top panel for the next version, making it even more Mac-like! I'll likely stay with the current LTS version or switch to Debian when the next stable version is released.
- When a product is free, and people still choose to pay money for a competing product, that’s a pretty good indicator that the free one is no good.
- Computer users should not be expected to copy and paste commands into terminals. That’s absurd. Besides, getting people in the habit of pasting things they don’t understand into a terminal? There goes Linux’s “security”…
- I really hope they don’t put the menus on top. Sigh.
Two things:
1. If you hate Ubuntu so much, why do you use it? There are other flavors of Linux or even other operating systems...
2. Simple instructions on how to move the window buttons back to the right: http://met.al/3uq
I think a lot of your complaints are unreasonable.
1. Because rabid freetards on the Internet misled me by telling me it’s the Best OS Ever. It’s clearly not, so I’m trying to do my part to counteract the forces of evil and dispel this ongoing deception.
As I said in my first post, I tried other Linux distros before I found Ubuntu, and they drove me mad. Ubuntu’s the best Linux distro there is (as evidenced by it kicking all the others’ asses overnight in market share) but it still sucks by any objective standard. I’ve spent the last few years waiting for it to stop sucking, but it hasn’t. I’ve wasted far too much time on this experiment. Life is too short. I know many others feel the same way. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the download numbers decreasing over the last few years. Google Trends seems to show interest in Ubuntu is dropping off.
2. I’m looking for a new computer and it will probably be Windows 7, since that’s been working much more stably and reliably on my work computer, but I have so much invested in Ubuntu that it’s hard to switch.
Like an abusive relationship, I recognize on a rational level that Ubuntu is cruel to me and I should abandon it, but my brain still has this irrational emotional attachment to the “movement” associated with it. So I have to actively fight against my self-destructive tendencies by documenting my frustrations, so I can’t forget them.
In fact, I’d really like to continue using Ubuntu. It has some good qualities, and it’s free, and open source still seems like a good idea to me (the Kool-Aid must be very strong). But… as much as I would like it to stop sucking, I don’t see any evidence that it will happen any time soon, if ever. Canonical’s priorities appear to be:
1. Make it look like a Mac
2. Change default apps, realize this was a mistake, change them to something else with the next release, realize this was a mistake…
3. Improved boot time!
4. Shove it out the door on the release date, bugs or not
5. ???
I’m complaining and complaining everywhere I can, in the hopes that it helps open people’s eyes and influence their priorities, but it hasn’t had much effect. Bug reports just sit untouched for years. About a third of Ubuntu Forum’s members have “major problems” with every release, but there’s no improvement. Ubuntu sucks.
3. Those instructions are not “simple”. “Easy” has a meaning, you know.
My complaints are not at all unreasonable.
NTFS drivers are hogging the CPU, preventing me from doing anything
How to watch YouTube videos in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
- Flash worked fine in Karmic, but not in Lucid.
- Firefox drops down a plugin installer notification, and I use it. “Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.”
- “Wouldn’t you rather install a half-assed, buggy, experimental Flash player like Swfdec or Gnash instead??" Fuck no.
- It starts to install Flash, then says… it’s already installed.
- Browser reloads the page, and hey, it’s not really already installed after all. Surprise. "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.”
- Search the web! Like every other problem with this stupid OS.
- Find instructions that say to go into Ubuntu Software Center → Canonical Partners instead of installing it in the browser.
- Install Flash Player 10!
- It just sits there, indefinitely.
- Notice the “In progress” spinning thing and click it.
- Under the flash player it says “waiting for other package managers to quit”
- So like, Synaptic? Close Synaptic.
- It starts to install Flash!
- “Package operation failed”
- TRY AGAIN THEN
- IT’S INSTALLED
- Back to Firefox!
- “Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.”
- FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
- MAYBE IF I RESTART FIREFOX IT WILL WORK
- FINALLY IT FUCKING WORKS
Package operation failed.
I’m sorry, but we did all that we could.
I dunno, that’s a pretty big difference…
In the freetard mindset, dumping some command line’s output into a dialog box constitutes a GUI.
You know, there’s this thing called Meld…