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The biggest most obvious slap you in the face problem with the Ubuntu desktop is cut and paste. This is the key thing a desktop should get right but it’s so wr
by blickentwapft 6y ago
The biggest most obvious slap you in the face problem with the Ubuntu desktop is cut and paste.
This is the key thing a desktop should get right but it’s so wrong.
It uses different keys to both OS X and windows, whereas it really should seamlessly offer both key combinations. And it’s inconsistent between applications.
We’re so far down the Linux desktop path for cut and paste to be this broken.
- pizza234 6y agoThis is an odd complaint. Cut/paste on Linux has been broken for a long time (possibly it's a past problem now), but not for the key bindings (d'oh), rather, for programs using incompatible APIs/frameworks, causing copy/paste not to work all the time. Even this, I think has been fixed, though, as I haven't been using a clipboard manager for a long time.
- yellowapple 6y agoI sometimes have issues with pasting screenshots into Rambox on my work laptop (it works most of the time, but sometimes it'll just inexplicably break, forcing me to paste the screenshot into a paint program first and then copy/paste into Rambox). Other than that, yeah, copy/paste ain't much of an issue. It's also really nice to be able to select text with my mouse and middle-click to paste (and it works across pretty much every non-game app I've used).
- panpanna 6y ago> It uses different keys to both OS X and Windows Why should this be a problem? You are on a different system, learn to use it the way it was intended. Ctrl-C has a different meaning in Unix. It has been so before windows and Macs existed.
- blickentwapft 6y agoThis is so precisely a representation of Unix think, and why Linux has such a problem competing as a desktop.