Major Linux Problems on the Desktop or Why Linux is not (yet)

75% of the complaints have to do with driver support, if linux already had the market share of windows or OSX this would be a non-issue.

But given the adoption rate, it's decent.

The remainder is somewhat nit picking

One of the problems is that some commands in linux even though they know damn well people will try to use them like in windows if they're trying to switch, they're mapped differently for no fucking reason just than to be different, ctrl-v for pasting comes to mind in some programs.

>>52352013
Not to nitpick, but I don't recall ever coming across a program in Linux that didn't use ctrl+v to paste, other than the terminal in Ubuntu (in that case it was ctrl+shift+v).

I think Linux is almost there. Once the kinks in LibreOffice are worked out and the overall OS UI/UX is a little nicer, I think we'd have Linux OSes that could actually compete in consumer space.

>>52352231
> think Linux is almost there.
Same. I've tried to used it a few times (once @ 2006 and once @2010) and when I installed it this year I was blown back by having everything "just werk" external soundcard included.

I know by just saying "linux" it's kinda broad but you get the idea.

>>52350547
The guy seems to hate windows too, and even declares it dead
http://itvision.altervista.org/why-windows-10-sucks.html

>>52350547
Eh, I find it mostly full of shit.
X is broken. I agree
Nvidia are fucks and x is broken, I agree.
Network manager is shit, systemd is shit, I agree.

But the vast majority of his complaints were that Linux isn't enough like windows and that Linux development isn't as standard as windows. The "20 years of binary compatibility" is complete shit. There are very very few binaries that still work on Windows since the 2000 days, much less earlier, and this is entirely due to the awful security and driver infrastructure that windows had in those days. Otoh Linux kernel does not break ABI for userspace ever. You can run a graphical program that uses X, opengl, gtk, glibc, pthreads, etc from 1995 trivially in Linux as long as it was statically linked.

Which is one of the reasons Linux developers are adamant about free software. It can be trivially recompiled to work on any future version if it works now. No need for ABI at the libc layer if you can just link it in.

He brings up mtp and smb as examples of lacking capabilities, and then says libmtp and samba aren't good enough because muh not kernel native. Fuck off.

Sound is definitely a problem, but its "good enough" these days for most people. It must get better before its good enough for audio engineers though.

>>52350547

Normies wouldn't know the difference retard. They do whatever it is they are used to and never would want to configure their system to how they want it.

>>52350547
Imho
GNU/Linux has some GREAT features/parts, the Linux kernel for example, the file systems, but the sum of the parts sucks.
OS X on the other hand has components/parts that are abysmal, but the whole thing is better than the sum of its parts.

>>52352231
Kingsoft Office is much nicer anyway.

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>>52352365

Yes. I saw this text. I like the texts that guy because he touches the wound of each of the operating systems.

It's a much wider view and less fanboy than those found periodically.

>>52353107
I know, but i still think that the guy exaggerates a lot of things though (his wording doesn't help him to be taken seriously and can get very rude if you don't agree with him if you read the commentaries)

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>>52350547
>http://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html
>Kernel version: 2.6.3

Yeah no thanks but they are literally throwing shit out of the water.
Just the first few problems have been resolved
>Open Source NVIDIA driver is much slower (up to five times) than its proprietary counterpart due to improperly working power management.
Slower how? They post no reference.
>NVIDIA Optimus technology and ATI dynamic GPU switching are still not supported on Linux out of the box in any existing distro. AMD hybrid graphics support is lousy and very incomplete.
Bumblebee
>The most recent test shows that open source AMD and NVIDIA drivers struggle to properly support many types of video cards.
Links are from 2014 and these problems have been adressed


OUTFUCKING DATED.

>>52350547
MSoffice compatibility, Images and tables in different size and position.

I use google docs or yandex exel, hate java and libreoffice

>>52352013
Some of it is just pure ignorance.
I have seen multiple people right click and select paste even though middleclick is way easier. I really don't mind that you have to use shift in the terminal and that you can Ctrl+y if you use a different buffer.
These things are expected because I grew up with these "issues".
Most graphical applications use the Ctrl + letter keyboard paradigm though.
I have gotten used to this and having weird hand positions are easy to remember so I use those a lot.
I don't think this is a problem for new users though.

>>52350547
honestly if linux faggots could make an xp clone that just werks people would switch to it in droves

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>>52350547
>Linux is shit
>>52352365
>Windows is shit

So should I just go BSD desktop at this point? What's the best choice for starters, PC-BSD? I've heard it's buggy but not sure if that was an exaggeration or not.

>>52353508
Inconsistency between various applications that you'd expect to work identically is a big pet peeve of mine. Take three graphical package managers and I guarantee each one has completely different default shortcuts for actions, sometimes with opposite functions from each other.

>>52353533

I think so.

For God's sake, forget the PC-BSD. That is garbage! I recommend FreeBSD or use OSX on a hackintosh. ;)

>>52353377
you could use wine for m$office or just use their "cloud" solution as you say you already use web services like google docs

at least office 2010 works completely fine via wine

>>52353564
B-but muh GUI packagemanager

Isn't PC-BSD just FreeBSD with some extra preinstalled shit?

>>52350547
Protip: Linux will never be ready for the computer illiterate users
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRWrmT0ovPE

>>52353523
This. If FOSS actually cared, they would support projects like react OS Instead of these bullshity solutions which only works great outside of a normal use.

>>52352276
Yes. Compared to 2006, a lot of stuff just works now.
I started learning about linux in 2005-6 and it is a lot better now.
Using it all the time, you are more prone to noticing when software you like go a different direction or when you discover a new DE that really works for you but overall, it is really good.
I think Ubuntu did a great job of showing other distro how easy it should be to use linux on the desktop.

>>52353587

PC-BSD is a fuck bloated, ugly, bugs everywhere, much inconsistent...

In summary: it's a piece of shit.

I believe that there are package managers for FreeBSD.

>>52353523
It was fun when there were all these stripped down XP clones where they pressed the XP ISO down to 50-100mb and still had a functional system.
If Microsoft made a version like that, without the malware, they might be a threat to linux.
But instead they replaced all the Chinese malware with their own and doubled down on the bloat.

Brilliant. Spam a zillion bullshit points in the hope others can't debunk them all. Classic Gish Gallup.

I'll skip the huge wall of text and go to the TL;DR:
>No stability, bugs, regressions, regressions and regressions
Depends on the distro. Debian Stable is, unsurprisingly, stable and well tested. You will almost never run into regressions.
Use a stable distro and you get stability. Use a bleeding-edge unstable distro and you don't. Shocking.

>The lack of standardization, fragmentation, unwarranted & excessive variety, as well as no common direction or vision among different distros
It's standardized within distros. Debian is compatible with Debian. Ubuntu is compatible with Ubuntu. Arch is compatible with Arch. All of these systems have large communities and a wealth of documentation. Other distros working differently does not mean each distro works worse.
This is like saying Windows sucks because it does not have a common vision with OS X.

>The lack of cooperation between open source developers and internal wars
Totes irrelevant. What matters is the quality of the product, not how it got there.

>A lot of rapid changes
Why is this a problem? Rapid improvements are a good thing. The user-visible changes are usually subtle.
And if there are too many changes, no one forces you to install updates. Installing updates is always OPTIONAL, which is often not the case on Windows.
And this is rich:
>please, don't remind me of PPAs and backports - these hacks are not officially supported, nor guaranteed to work
So PPAs, which were developed by Canonical, are an unofficial hack? Brilliant.
Maybe this moron is trying to say that software from PPAs is not officially audited, tested, and endorsed by the repo maintainers. Which is true! However, practically no software on Windows or OS X is audited, tested, or endorsed by MS or Apple. The software is not officially supported, but that is not a disadvantage. It's merely the lack of an advantage Linux users are used to.

>>52353682
Last time I've checked on FreeBSD it only had a couple half-finished projects for them.
What about GhostBSD? Google says it comes with a manager and it's also FreeBSD derived. I hate Gnome and MATE though...

>>52350547
Factually wrong:
>OpenCL and multiGPU rendering are not supported by open source drivers.
I'm using OpenCL with the new amdgpu drivers at this very moment. Granted, it's not in the upstream kernel yet. But it will arrive in 4.5

>>52353714

I don't know. I never used GhostBSD, but it seems he is well directed to the end user.

>>52353533
BSD is even worse than linux. Just don't use computers at all, nothing but trouble.

>>52353757
Guess I'll have a look at that one then. Maybe I'll try PC-BSD in a VM just for kicks though...

How different is the repository infrastructure for BSDs compared to Linux?

>>52353760
It can't be "even worse" when Linux can't possibly be any worse.

>>52353865
>Linux can't possibly be any worse.
False. It could be Windows.

>>52350547
Why the fuck do you faggots want all the normies to use Linux for their email and games so badly? Who gives a fuck about this dead horse.

Just use it for your dev/ricing/superioirty complex needs and get on with life.

>>52353904
Windows at least has proper wireless driver support.

>>52353925
No. Hardware vendors have proper Windows support.

>>52353925
Linux developers don't control what companies choose to support.

Also the wifi situation is vastly improved over a decade or so ago.

>>52353849

>How different is the repository infrastructure for BSDs compared to Linux?

Now you got me. I do not quite understand this thing repositories. Just know that in the case of FreeBSD, it uses the ports.

For the netbsd (if memory serves me correctly) software are compiled from the source code.

A basic comparative Introduction to FreeBSD for Linux Users:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/a-comparative-introduction-to-freebsd-for-linux-users

>>52354034
The end result is the same, so where does that leave lintards?

>>52354048
BSDs have binary package managers as well.

>>52354063
>The end result is the same
Yup! But it's a matter of where you assign the blame. Linux is working perfectly and your shitty hardware is the problem.
Go ahead and say you won't use Linux because of hardware incompatibility problems, but say that the drivers don't support Linux rather than the other way around.
>where does that leave lintards?
With a working system. Linux wireless drivers work just fine for anything remotely common. The only hardware support that is really questionable these days is graphics.

>>52354063
With working wifi, that hasn't been a problem for years.
Only a couple of chips don't work now.

>>52354048
>>52354165
Thanks for the info m8.
Hopefully I can get this rig running and abandon M$ for good this time.

>>52353714
>hate Gnome and MATE though...
Nigga I Fite u

i think in the next five years, especially if Steam OS is successful in porting games to Linux, there is going to be a massive exodus of disillusioned Windows users who don't like W8 - 10.

the only thing holding people back right now is literally photoshop, MS Office, and vidya.

>>52352365
''downgrade to Windows 8.1 or even better to Windows 7 which contains zero privacy invasion features''

>zero privacy invasion features
>any closed-source OS

DROPPED

>>52354291
I've generally not been too satisfied with any DE I've tried so far, but I'm much more optimistic about the Qt branch. Can't wait for LXQt to gain some traction.

>>52354310
>connecting to the world wide web
>expecting privacy
when will you retards learn.

>>52350547
like 95% of this could be dealt with by an OEM, which is how almost everyone gets a computer, it's not fair to compare Linux installed by oneself on arbitrary hardware to a factory built PC

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Tried to set up Ubuntu GNOME on desktop from live CD

>MFW the fucking KEYBOARD isn't working
>Unity spin the keyboard works
>KDE spin the keyboard works

Shill harder

>>52354310
>any closed-source OS
U mad because it Just Werks on said closed-source OS?

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>>52354395

Have you tried the famous tiling wm?

>>52354430
You know this also means OEMs will come up with their own distros/DEs untill buying a 'linux machine' is even worse than freshly bought Androids. Ads, shitty programs and whatnot everywhere.

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>>52354401
but honestly I remember when my notebook running windows 7 ultimate SP1 started notifying me about the windows 10 update
I removed every system update that was telemetry related as well as every scheduled task in the task manager

when I finished it I took a look at the remaining tasks in the task manager and there was something called ''telemetrydx4'' or ''telemetrydx3'' something like that; and I couldn't do anything about this one
it was listed under ''ongoing tasks'' -> repeat every 12 hours

>>52354459
GNOME is garbage, son
>>52354470
I've did, many of them feel kinda clunky and unresponsive. Maybe configs can fix that, but who can give so many shits just to get it working properly really.
IceWM is really comfy though, I'd just need to mix it up with a half decent terminal and file manager and a bunch of configs but really, it's a bit too much hassle at once for a unix newb

>>52354537
>GNOME is garbage, son
It grows on you, at least more so than unity ever did or will try to in the future.

>>52354521
Just embrace it.
But anyhow my point is that I find it silly that some losers here believe they're safe by installing some open source OS (what was hearthbleed?) and don't even realise most computers have physical backdoors that are activated through the internet.

I've seen a presentation from some hacker convention where a guy would fire a certain string of bits into a computer through the LAN cable and something changed, yet nothing could be seen or detected at ALL. The PC didn't even know what was going on.

>>52354576
Any DE that doesn't let one have a single taskbar on the side is badly realized by default, that's like a litmus test

>>52354611
>any DE that dose nott do what i want it to is bad for everyone

>>52354591
I heard it's possible to take a look at what's appearing on a computer screen just by monitoring the electrical variation of the device
since each millisecond of energy variation could be translated into pixels changing colors and that of course, translated into a entire picture

>>52354675
Any DE that can't accomodate its users' needs collectively IS bad for everyone. Who knows what brilliant rigid overhaul they introduce in GNOME 4 with this sort of approach. If XFCE, LXDE, KDE can seamlessly accomodate many types of user needs, why can't GNOME?

>>52354739

Stop making assumptions about what users need and maybe you'll answer your own conundrum.

>>52354801
I'm a user, I can tell you what a user needs. If they're not developing this to cater to users' needs, who are they developing it for? It's a fucking desktop environment, not an artistic statement.

>>52354831
Being able to put your taskbar on one of the sides of the screen should indeed be an option on every DE.
And that's coming from a guy that uses windows 90% of the time and always had the taskbar at the bottom.

>>52350547
A lot of this shit doesn't affect people outside of very specific cases. I've been using Linux on the desktop exclusively for over 4 years and I've only encountered most of these issues once or twice, if at all.
Some things I would even say "it's not a bug, it's a feature". For example
>X.org allows applications to exclusively grab keyboard and mouse input. If such applications misbehave you are left with a system you cannot manage, you cannot even switch to text terminals
Is one of the things keeping me from switching to Wayland, because it enables something like sxhkd

Honestly I stopped taking them seriously when they began complaining about font rendering. I installed a Windows vm today and the first thing I noticed was the horrible font rendering, it's way worse than on Linux

>>52353682
what about pacbsd (or archbsd), anyone here try it
its just freebsd with pacman installed, i might give it a try

>>52354831

>I'm a user, I can tell you what a user needs.

No you can't. You can tell us what you want, but what you want may only ultimately appeal to just a tiny fraction of all users. A finite amount of developers with a finite amount of time may not find it worth it to support you else the general quality of their software dies amid an ever expanding codebase and test matrix.

>>52354831
>>52354902

Case in point: MATE allows you to have a vertical taskbar... that's completely broken.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues/157

>>52354902
>No you can't. You can tell us what you want, but what you want may only ultimately appeal to just a tiny fraction of all users.
And so, by step-by-step removing all the tiny fractions of users who've been thinking differently from the lowest common denominator, we've created OSX.

>>52354939

And lo and behold, OS X has many, many, many more satisfied users than all of the Linux desktops put together.

>>52354927
Guess what, MATE is derived from a previous version of GNOME. Cinnamon is too and it doesn't have vertical taskbar either. Meanwhile every other DE doesn't have this problem. See a pattern here?

>>52354966
How many of those users do more than browse Facebook, apply instagram filters on their faggy selfies and shitpost on /g/ that Windows is bad?

>>52350547
Three days of streaming music, sports and playing BL2 on Kubuntu. Flawlessly.. You're an idiot or you've got shit hardware. Lemme guess. Dual booting on a laptop?

>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

>>52350547
You know why this year isn't the year of the Linux Desktop? It's because vendors aren't installing it by default to computers that are being sold.
That is the only reason.

>>52354972

No.

It's a simple demonstration that if you support more and more configurations, your QA work expands exponentially and the amount of code you maintain grows, inevitably resulting in poorer quality software that tries to please everyone but fails in many big and small ways. This is especially crucial for free software projects with small teams who work in their free time.

>>52354991

What's your point? They're happy users.

>>52354873
Actually this guy is full of shit, among others:
>Everything should be configurable through GUI because reasons
>conveniently ignoring samba and claiming nfs is shit (even though it's faster and in my case easier to set up)
>things which are just provably false (too many to name)
I mean between all the bollocks he does hit a fair number of good points (battery management, Nvidia Optimus, audio mess), but in the same piece of text he'll claim Linux has no Antivirus (what is ClamAV, also implying it's necessary)

s/Linux/GNU+Linux/g, I'm in mobile

>>52354591
>what was hearthbleed?
A critical bug that was patched immediately after being disclosed. Sorry if, unlike you, i can have an OS that i can update with the latest security patches anytime without feeling that i'm "fucked anyway".

>>52355080
>your QA work expands exponentially and the amount of code you maintain grows, inevitably resulting in poorer quality software that tries to please everyone but fails in many big and small ways
So why isn't LXDE a buggy POS then?
>They're happy users.
People in sanitariums are often happy too.

>>52353690
You have my attention. Where can I read up on these svelte XPs? Are they still supported? Are they secure? Will they run games better than wine?

Linux is made for its users, by its users and its users employers

Its users run servers and workstations, not desktops

This is why all the quality software is for a few niche fields of work and everything else is trash written for free by people who aren't even close to their target audience

Who cares about the pipe dreams of freetards and disgruntled windows users? Fuck them. Ganoo linux is B E T T E R as a server/workstation OS. Use the right tool for the job, fucker. Install fucking android if you want your normie OS on the linux kernel.

>>52352231
>Not to nitpick, but I don't recall ever coming across a program in Linux that didn't use ctrl+v to paste, other than the terminal in Ubuntu (in that case it was ctrl+shift+v).
Yeah, Linux terminals can't do Ctrl-V for pasting and it drives me nuts, coming from OS X where Command-V pastes in terminals just like it does in every other application.

>>52353197
Sometimes exaggeration is what's required to get an issue looked at and resolved. Way too often problems just get swept under the rug and shrugged about because the FOSS crowd is used to dealing with them and see them as non-issues.

>>52355266
>Linux terminals can't do Ctrl-V
pretty sure you can just rebind the key

>>52355266
autism.

>>52355442
I really don't think so. When someone is in the middle of working and constantly tabbing between applications, hotkey discrepancies are probably going to be the very last thing on their mind, resulting in a reflexive pressing of Ctrl-V for no result at all. It can be learned for sure, but it's going to take several failures and a temporary mental imperative to remember that this ONE program out of thousands and thousands of programs pastes differently for whatever reason. It's unnecessary friction.

>>52355431
If that's true, it's great but I don't see why it has to be a snowflake in the first place.

>>52355522
historical reasons, control sequences, but you could argue it's not a good default anymore

Install FreeBSD and install Lumina and suddenly you have years of BSD desktop at your fingers.

After having actually read the article, most of this isn't about problems with Linux or unixlikes, but about problems with capitalists intentionally making unixlikes worse while only communists and anarchists make unixlikes better.

>>52355522
>If that's true, it's great but I don't see why it has to be a snowflake in the first place.
It's how it was done in Unix and they have no reason to really change it. I like just highlighting and middle-mouse better anyway

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Linux was ok to use on 2005. Since then it failed too hard for caring about security or whatever it can offer for regular users that just pirate windows and good proprietary software that doesn't constantly break the OS.