Whoa this article has brought up some painful memories and I agree with so much, but yet I can't imagine using Windows, it pisses me off even more. > Most dist

Whoa this article has brought up some painful memories and I agree with so much, but yet I can't imagine using Windows, it pisses me off even more. > Most distros don't allow you to easily set up a server with e.g. such a configuration: Samba, SMTP/POP3, Apache HTTP Auth and FTP where all users are virtual. LDAP is a PITA. Authentication against MySQL/any other DB is also a PITA. Just thinking about it gives me ptsd, I do not want a thousand users or folders on my system, they're a pain to migrate, it's really a PITA to make everything virtual. Please someone give me a nice short guide how to set up dovecot so that it stores all e-mails in postgresql? > KDE is spiralling out of control (besides, its code quality is beyond horrible - several crucial parts of the KDE SC, like KMail/akonadi, are barely functional): people refuse to maintain literally hundreds of KDE packages. KMail has had so many bugs for me, I should report but man, it's such a pain in the ass. Such ridiculous bugs as well (e.g. connection loss spawning 1000 error boxes that my GPU can't handle the layered transparency. > ! Linux security/permissions management is a bloody mess: PAM, SeLinux, Udev, HAL (replaced with udisk/upower/libudev), PolicyKit, ConsoleKit and usual Unix permissions (/etc/passwd, /etc/group) all have their separate incompatible permissions management systems spread all over the file system. Quite often people cannot use their digital devices unless they switch to a super user. In theory they're all separate things, but they interleave so much, there has to be a better system. > ! No equivalent of some hardcore Windows software like ArchiCAD/3ds Max/Adobe Premier/Adobe Photoshop/Corel Draw/DVD authoring applications/etc. Home and enterprise users just won't bother installing Linux until they can get their work done. I really miss Solidworks/Fusion 360, there's no effort at all to port those :( > ! Open source drivers have certain, sometimes very serious problems (Intel-!, NVIDIA and AMD): Flickering windows, low FPS, laggy videos, everyday struggle :( Changing compositor OpenGL mode fixes it though. > ! An insane number of regressions in the Linux kernel, when with every new kernel release some hardware can stop working inexplicably. I have personally reported two serious audio playback regressions, which have been consequently resolved, however most users don't know how to file bugs, how to bisect regressions, how to identify faulty components. I was affected by this too, qemu was broken for me for almost half a year. There's one thing that's very subjective in the article, even if the author claims otherwise. I like to call it the Winduslexia, it doesn't occur for anyone other than previous Windows users: > All native Linux filesystems are case sensitive about filenames which utterly confuses most users. This wonderful peculiarity doesn't have any sensible rationale. Less than 0.01% of users in the Linux world depend on this feature.