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Complaints

Note: These should be taken with a bag of salt. Most users won't care about most of these (probably?). I just needed a place to write them down.

General Linux / BSD

  • Not specific to any distro, but AirPlay to an Airport Express is not a thing that can be done. I know this is unhelpful and maybe even rude to complain about, but I also haven't seen any OS standards popup for this sort of audio streaming. I wouldn't mind setting up a Raspberry Pi or other silly little mini computer to stream audio / media to if there were a decent alternative, but I just haven't found one

  • Terminal emulators are either all ugly or have stupid keyboard shortcuts or both

  • Email clients suck. Thunderbird is ugly and looks enterprisey, but I'm not necessarily willing to convert to mutt full time. Geary looks good but has a completely different set of keyboard shortcuts than Gmail. Which is stupid for an email client designed for Gmail users

  • Chromium is far less powerful than the Mac OS X version of Chrome. No C-M-[ to switch tabs to the left? What am I, 12?

  • Dual monitors don't work out of the box. This is 2014 and the terminal doesn't even register if I hotplug another monitor in. I have to restart the entire PC to get it to realize it has two potential displays

  • The default console resolution (out of the box, no tweaking) is like 83 x 20

Debian

  • Comes with Apache installed by default? wat

  • Have to remove libperl and libperl-dev because otherwise they interfere with compiling vim using my own version of perl from plenv. I don't even necessarily think this is Debian's fault but I do think it's stupid that I have to have a line in my config file that says "make sure these packages are ABSENT"

Ubuntu

  • Your SSH DAEMON (sshd on every other sane OS) is called ssh. So now I have to add in a custom variable for your little snowflake of a system to decide whether the SSH DAEMON is called sshd or ssh based on whether the system self-reports as Ubuntu or not

RedHat

  • Your fucking vim installation is broken by default. sudo yum install big-vim-or-whatever doesn't work out of the box because it conflicts with the builtin vim

  • Your perl modules get installed in the weirdest fucking places. I have an entire task dedicated to creating a symlink for xsubpp because you chose to ignore convention and install it in some arbitrary fucking location

GNOME

  • The "Emacs" key binding mode for GTK (Gnome?) text fields is stupid. C-a becomes go to the beginning of the line but there's no alternative for "select all". Mac OS X shortcuts really really shine in comparison

  • Related to the above there's no easily obvious way of customizing those same keyboard shortcuts

  • Gnome notifications (are they actually Gnome's?) stay for 5 seconds and are not actionable (including early dismissal)

  • Notifications don't have any sort of notification center, or even any sort of "these are the last 5 notifications you've received"

  • Pidgin also doesn't have any (obvious? googleable?) way of changing some keyboard shortcuts (like next / prev tab)

  • Empathy is hideous and underpowered compared to Pidgin. Why is it the default?

  • Why do I need a "tweaks" tool in the first place? Why can't you just let me tweak these things without having to install another binary?

Elementary OS

  • Elementary OS doesn't have a (obvious?) way of stopping M-l from locking the screen

  • ElementaryOS (Gnome?) doesn't have a "toggle pause / play" shortcut, only a "pause" and a "play" one. I want to use the same shortcut for both and I shouldn't have to connect up a script for it

  • ElementaryOS has no way of reorganizing spaces

  • ElementaryOS's window manager (Pantheon?) seems designed for mouse use only

  • ElementaryOS has no more precise adjectives for window size than "fullscreen", "half on the left", and "half on the right"

  • Shotwell is weak and underpowered

  • Application launcher in eOS doesn't get dismissed after pressing escape

  • Terminal in eOS (based on Gnome Terminal?) is not configurable (maybe without installing eOS tweaks?) and has a transparent and dark background because it's "pretty"

  • Installing Steam in eOS failed randomly and for random reasons (something to do with Ubuntu One?)

  • There's a huge amount of empty space in my eOS taskbar but no options to add stuff like RAM / CPU usage

  • Same as above but w/ desktop. Doesn't seem to be a way to add desktop icons and Conky isn't built in so why even have a desktop?

  • The "no menubar" idea in eOS is cute but some apps (pidgin) are really not designed for it. Stuff like pulling up the buddy list is painful

  • Spaces in general seem weirdly done in eOS. For example if I'm using urxvtzeuzrt and I create some form of urgent bell by mistyping a command or trying to autocomplete when there's nothing to complete, a little red light will appear under the dock icon. When I click on that icon it will take me to (if I have one running) another instance of urxvtzeuzrt (e.g. cycling through open windows) instead of to the window that caused the stupid little red light to appear in the first place

  • Opening a link in Gnome terminal (clicking on it?) doesn't switch me to the new browser window, it just puts one of those annoying red lights under it in the dock