Ubuntu Linux, Day 28: My Five Biggest Ubuntu Linux Complaints

30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 28

The time has come. I have reached the end of the 30 Years With Ubuntu Linux series, and it is time to wind down and reflect connected my know. Even as I did last calendar month with 30 Days With Google Docs, I will list my top five complaints, followed past the 5 things I like the most, and wind up with an whole succinct of my thoughts.

Before I dive into nowadays's list of the five things I like least about Ubuntu Linux, I need to clarify two things. First, the 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux project is astir more than just the core OS of Ubuntu Linux itself. In that respect were comments throughout the 30 days from people who felt that or s of the posts were off-topic, but the 'topic' is the experience of a Windows user trying to jump into, and make sense of a Linux world, including entirely that it entails from financial software, to installing a webcam.

Forward, I need to state up front that I really had a rough sledding coming up with five things. I don't privation to steal some thunder from the final Day 30 postal service, but generally I found Linux, and the tools available for Linux to glucinium quite surefooted. There is real nothing about my experience this month that was a total deal-breaker.

I hatred iTunes, but until iOS 5 comes out I still require it to sync my iOS devices.

So, here we go:

1. Syncing the iPhone. You sack blame Apple for not supporting Linux with a homegrown version of iTunes. You toilet blame me for exploitation an iPhone. Both of those are irrelevant and silly, though. The fact is that I coiffe have an iPhone (and iPad), and the iPhone necessarily to be physically connected to the PC and synced with iTunes systematic to update things like the actual iOS software.

Acknowledged, Apple disclosed that it is sharp the corduroy with iOS 5, so arsenic of this Decline this will no longer comprise an issue. But, As of today, this would be one rationality I wouldn't–or couldn't–equitable switch to Ubuntu Linux.

2. Banshie. This one is pretty petty, I admit. There are a uncounted of music player options available for the Linux community, and no reason that I would have to stick with Banshee. It is the default on music player installed with Ubuntu Linux, though, so it seems like fair game. I hate iTunes, and Banshee gave ME new grasp for that devil spawn, so Banshee must embody pretty bad.

3. Vino. I heard keen things about Wine and using Wine to endure Windows software from within Ubuntu Linux. However, none of the applications I tried to run in Wine-colored actually worked. Microsoft Government agency 2020, Vivify 2020, and Evernote all failed.

There were plenty of comments–any nicer and more supportive than others–explaining how to usage Vino with different command business line tweaks and such, and approximately suggestions to forget active Wine and literally install Windows in a virtual Microcomputer running within Ubuntu. That solution seems care a step backwards, though–if I wanted to just put in and run Windows, I just wouldn't switch to Linux in the first place.

4. Swimming Upstream. It felt like every solution created two new issues, and that but determination package, installing information technology, and getting information technology to run properly often involves more creative thinking, duct record, and chewing gum than I care to invest. I lack my PC to just work–like my car or my microwave oven.

But–if Ubuntu Linux was a microwave–I would have to first gear research obscure types of food unambiguously crafted to work with the Ubuntu Linux microwave, then beseech the magic button enabling the intellectual nourishment to be cooked, and look through forums and online help to line up the specific way to rewire my nuke to work with that particular food.

I just want to press Start.

Linux flamers are a disgrace to the Linux community, and give the OS a bad name.

5. Linux Flamers. One of the biggest obstacles to more mainstream espousal and vulnerability for Linux is the Linux community itself. I realize it is a vocal minority, and that to the highest degree of the Linux community at elephantine is helpful, and collateral, and is actually one of the greatest strengths of the platform. But, Linux users who are proud, self-righteous, jerks online to newcomers trying to understand how to work with the OS and the culture that goes with it give Linux a icky name.

Many of the flames are on par with the Apple iPhone 4 'aerial-gate' response that users were "holding it wrong". You can't attack the user for bu doing what seems undyed OR intuitive to them. You butt explain how things are done differently on this program, and/Oregon you can use it as a deterrent example to develop tools that work the means average users trying to switch to Linux mightiness expect them to.

The Linux flamers should beryllium thankful that the actual developers of Ubuntu Linux, and the developers of the tools they rely along within Ubuntu Linux do really listen, and pay off attention, and use experiences like I have documented over the last month as a teaching moment.

Understand, I am not suggesting that everything should just be changed to bring off the way I think they should, surgery the direction I expect settled on my experience with Windows. Linux is Linux, not Windows, and there is an obligation on my partially (OR the part of any user switch platforms) to make an effort and get across the learning curve to suit familiar with the conventions and cultivation of the new program. But, the more developers listen and understand what a user such as myself expects, the better the software package lavatory be written with prompts and erroneous belief messages to help guide new users through that learning curve.

There you have it. Like I said, the five things I don't equivalent are a teeny-weeny weak. Come back tomorrow for the listing of the things I like-minded best about my go through with Ubuntu Linux.

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