One
Night of TROUBLE with Linux
I
was trying to upgrade my computer with Linux derivatives and take an
early Christmas Break.
I
list the Linux Nuances not on any order of merit here.
All these are Human Errors and can be rectified.
I
believe all the Linux developers are DOING a great JOB but by rushing
to put out the distribution before Christmas leave behind some ugly
nuances.
They should be excused for minor lapses.
1. Peppermint
FRONT end is DARK and UGLY.
I get a headache
after few minutes of work.
2. Libre Office has
no Thesaurus in Linux.
3. Ubuntu 14.04
takes four hours,mind you it is not their fault;
(my Internet speed is
down to 5 KB / per second by default action by the service provider;
I Pay over Rs.8000 per month and get only 20 GiB of downloads which I
finish in one day of downloads and the rest of the month GO snail
space even to read my email.
This they CALL a Five Star Service.
I
hope during the Christmas holiday at least, they allow a leeway)
But at the end
of the installation delete them which also takes a bit of time.
Why can't they
Install first in English and give the USER to download his or her
language afterwards?
4. Knoppix 7.6 is
beautiful on a Live Session But has a major glitch.
I downloaded the
English version and Installed it to reiserfs partition.
It is not in English
but probably in Danish.
I tried to convert
it to English at boot time but it boots so fast that touching the Del
Key or F2 has no effect.
5. Boot loaders are
finicky, especially Knoppix but it gives the option of not installing
it and configure manually.
6. None of them
detect the UEFI based Window's 8 in my second hard drive.
I
deliberately shifted its UEFI partition.
7. DVD booting of
Pinguy, and Knoppix were halted abruptly due to sectors not written
properly on the boot disk.
They were burned by K3B on Peppermint.
One
disk did not finish writing on it.
I am not a novice to
Linux and I have gone through these nuances many a times, I can tolerate all
this in one night of Linux Dance BUT what I cannot tolerate is our Telecoms
restricting my access to Internet at 5 KB per second.
It is killing me
softly.
I take my hat off
for all the developers.
I am making these
comments before Microsoft guys trying to bash (not the bash script)
your back with critical comments.
If YOU hear
these comments from a Microsoft Guy / Girl please ignore them and have
a PATCH ready by January.
Mind you Microsoft takes one year patch their faults by that time they release a new edition for which you have to PAY.
Only foolish guys PAY for their own faults and make Microsoft Rich by many a Miles.
You Guys/Girls need
a holiday and you richly deserve a holiday.
In any case I am
going into recess any time from now and if you do not hear from me
please do not assume I am dead and gone with the wind.
I will be back with
all cylinders firing at top level.
Happy Christmas
and a prosperous New Year, 2016.
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