This was posted in 2015, seven years on we are not better.
This is partly due to Corona Virus Pandemic Effect and bashing Russians for Eu's and America's own fault lines.
Ukraine WAR is an antithesis now and people are in the dark in most of Europe.
Linux may not recover at all, Linus Torvalds is in America.
In the Rush to post before Christmas and New year Holidays Developers make lot of mistakes.
It is similar to how Steam OS was STAGE managed.
Nobody has a Steam OS to test drive.
I am talking about the DECK.
Where as lot of other play stations with equal merit have surfaced.
My advice enjoy the holidays and try these new ones in 3 months time when most of the bugs are fixed.
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 to-2022.
