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People keep saying "it works for me, go away", as if other people who care about a DECENT desktop experience are just morons. "Ah! Another stupid windows/osx u

by piger 15y ago

People keep saying "it works for me, go away", as if other people who care about a DECENT desktop experience are just morons. "Ah! Another stupid windows/osx user!" I don't care about your fvwm desktop with 99 xterms and emacs everywhere, or your fully customized arch linux that "works for you"; I, like many other people, have different needs. And yet the general response from the community is "fuck off". First rule of desktop linux: you do not complain about desktop linux. Greetings from the year 2011.

mbubb 15y ago
No - not true. There are glitches but none of them a dealbreaker. I am not a masochist - if it caused me pain I would have stopped using Linux on my laptop years ago. Much of what I do is commandline. So a not atypical work setup is to have some kind of messenger, a browser, a terminal and thunderbird running. That is 95% of my day and it works great. I would switch if it didn't. I am not trying to play the Linux version of the longbearded UNIX grump (http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-06-24/ http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-06-24/) . Really it works great and I would not willingly go back to Windows. And would grudgingly go back to MacOS. I don't understand the flipside - why people complain about Linux desktop. You should make it work or go back to your OS of choice. I get sucked into these articles because I think I might learn something or see something in a different way. THey almost always disapoint.
- wvenable 15y ago
  > You should make it work or go back to your OS of choice. I'm not sure that's even possible. If the complaint is a lack of drivers and poor support for hardware, how is the average developer supposed to deal with that?
zppx 15y ago
Well to be fair I saw a lot of people downvoted on HN because they got valid points criticizing OS X or even Rails, so your first rule applies in some other situations too, at least here, maybe it's a problem about discussions on the internet... I use a Mac so I understand their criticisms sometimes, sometimes I think they're just whining, as I think of this article. I think that an article about a switch for Windows would have been much better.

by piger 15y ago

mbubb 15y ago

No - not true. There are glitches but none of them a dealbreaker. I am not a masochist - if it caused me pain I would have stopped using Linux on my laptop years ago. Much of what I do is commandline. So a not atypical work setup is to have some kind of messenger, a browser, a terminal and thunderbird running. That is 95% of my day and it works great. I would switch if it didn't. I am not trying to play the Linux version of the longbearded UNIX grump (http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-06-24/ http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-06-24/) . Really it works great and I would not willingly go back to Windows. And would grudgingly go back to MacOS. I don't understand the flipside - why people complain about Linux desktop. You should make it work or go back to your OS of choice. I get sucked into these articles because I think I might learn something or see something in a different way. THey almost always disapoint.

wvenable 15y ago
> You should make it work or go back to your OS of choice. I'm not sure that's even possible. If the complaint is a lack of drivers and poor support for hardware, how is the average developer supposed to deal with that?

zppx 15y ago

Well to be fair I saw a lot of people downvoted on HN because they got valid points criticizing OS X or even Rails, so your first rule applies in some other situations too, at least here, maybe it's a problem about discussions on the internet... I use a Mac so I understand their criticisms sometimes, sometimes I think they're just whining, as I think of this article. I think that an article about a switch for Windows would have been much better.