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<blockquote data-quote="Handsome Creepy Eel" data-source="post: 211290" data-attributes="member: 1362"><p>I'm currently in the opposite of this process, switching from Linux to Windows. I honestly gave Linux (Mint, Zorin and Arch) a chance, but there are just too many things about it that just don't belong in 21st century and keep killing my enthusiasm.</p><p></p><p>To be precise, it's not so much the OS - there have been no crashes, I've only had some driver problems - the thing flows smoothly and is easy to customize (or find another version already customized to my preferences). The problem is with Linux applications, both native and ported. Literally everything on it suffers from bizzare problems that just can't be fixed because, unlike Windows, Linux programs all work by being a graphical interface for the same package. If there's no functionality that you want in your respective package, you're screwed. For example:</p><p></p><p>- LibreOffice insists on spell-checking and correcting everything to english, no matter how hard I try to select another language, turn off the functionality or make it not filter some words (like "i" to "I"). This is after following official instructions from its forum, which conclude with <em>"you know, there are still some bugs"</em>. Well fuck you.</p><p>- LibreOffice randomly forgets formatting, even in its native ODS format. Pies have to be rebuilt and comments repositioned every time a file is opened.</p><p>- The "common sense" options "extract to folder", "extract here" and "extract to folder here" are missing from all archiver tools that I've tried. There is only one at a time, and if you don't like it you're screwed.</p><p></p><p>- There is no web filter worth a damn. You can get one reasonably precise one where you have to - I shit you not - manually open its config file and enter instructions for it in PERL. Graphical interface seems to be totally unknown to developers. The default web filter, "Domain blocker", deletes all of the addresses you have blocked if you close it with X instead of close. I wish I was joking. Imagine Photoshop deleting your settings just because you closed it with the button that you're supposed to.</p><p></p><p>- Speaking of graphics, Pinta is a good program but insists on choosing a file type rather than file name when you try to save something, so you have to manually select the name field instead of just typing it like in any normal program.</p><p></p><p>- Gedit (equivalent of notepad) randomly refuses to open certain files, claiming it can't recognize format. This happens across all languages and signs, and sometimes even with the same files. Open something at 13:00? Fine. Come back at 13:02? Not recognized.</p><p></p><p>- Dropbox version for Linux lacks the standard explorer interface at the top (like one would expect from a window) and instead forces you to click through multiple menus to reach close, minimize and similar options, as if you were in Windows 95.</p><p></p><p>- PrintScreen automatically saves the screenshot to your pictures folder instead of just putting it in your memory. </p><p></p><p>- Wine is great, but far from a solution for everything. Forget about running any modern stuff, like games released before 2012, and often about running very old stuff either (backward compatibility seems even worse than in Windows). </p><p></p><p>And so on and so on...</p><p></p><p>None of these issues are critical, but they're things that one shouldn't have to deal with in the 21st century. It's not even for lack of detail or trying. It's just that most of these things seem to be designed in a very alien way that doesn't resonate at all with what users actually do. Until Linux developers - and by that I mainly mean program developers, not OS - get on board with the needs of the user, it will continue to languish in its 1% market share.</p><p></p><p>Pretty much the only thing I can say in favor of Linux is that it's free and that it's free from the famous NSA backdoor. Other than that... sorry. I just can't work with this shit anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Handsome Creepy Eel, post: 211290, member: 1362"] I'm currently in the opposite of this process, switching from Linux to Windows. I honestly gave Linux (Mint, Zorin and Arch) a chance, but there are just too many things about it that just don't belong in 21st century and keep killing my enthusiasm. To be precise, it's not so much the OS - there have been no crashes, I've only had some driver problems - the thing flows smoothly and is easy to customize (or find another version already customized to my preferences). The problem is with Linux applications, both native and ported. Literally everything on it suffers from bizzare problems that just can't be fixed because, unlike Windows, Linux programs all work by being a graphical interface for the same package. If there's no functionality that you want in your respective package, you're screwed. For example: - LibreOffice insists on spell-checking and correcting everything to english, no matter how hard I try to select another language, turn off the functionality or make it not filter some words (like "i" to "I"). This is after following official instructions from its forum, which conclude with [i]"you know, there are still some bugs"[/i]. Well fuck you. - LibreOffice randomly forgets formatting, even in its native ODS format. Pies have to be rebuilt and comments repositioned every time a file is opened. - The "common sense" options "extract to folder", "extract here" and "extract to folder here" are missing from all archiver tools that I've tried. There is only one at a time, and if you don't like it you're screwed. - There is no web filter worth a damn. You can get one reasonably precise one where you have to - I shit you not - manually open its config file and enter instructions for it in PERL. Graphical interface seems to be totally unknown to developers. The default web filter, "Domain blocker", deletes all of the addresses you have blocked if you close it with X instead of close. I wish I was joking. Imagine Photoshop deleting your settings just because you closed it with the button that you're supposed to. - Speaking of graphics, Pinta is a good program but insists on choosing a file type rather than file name when you try to save something, so you have to manually select the name field instead of just typing it like in any normal program. - Gedit (equivalent of notepad) randomly refuses to open certain files, claiming it can't recognize format. This happens across all languages and signs, and sometimes even with the same files. Open something at 13:00? Fine. Come back at 13:02? Not recognized. - Dropbox version for Linux lacks the standard explorer interface at the top (like one would expect from a window) and instead forces you to click through multiple menus to reach close, minimize and similar options, as if you were in Windows 95. - PrintScreen automatically saves the screenshot to your pictures folder instead of just putting it in your memory. - Wine is great, but far from a solution for everything. Forget about running any modern stuff, like games released before 2012, and often about running very old stuff either (backward compatibility seems even worse than in Windows). And so on and so on... None of these issues are critical, but they're things that one shouldn't have to deal with in the 21st century. It's not even for lack of detail or trying. It's just that most of these things seem to be designed in a very alien way that doesn't resonate at all with what users actually do. Until Linux developers - and by that I mainly mean program developers, not OS - get on board with the needs of the user, it will continue to languish in its 1% market share. Pretty much the only thing I can say in favor of Linux is that it's free and that it's free from the famous NSA backdoor. Other than that... sorry. I just can't work with this shit anymore. [/QUOTE]
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