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I've been using MacOSX as my primary desktop since the days of Rhapsody. But I always had Linux virtual machines running on occasions. A dwindling number of machines at home were running Linux, most notably a couple of Raspberry Pi and a Synology Diskstation. And when I installed Linux, I usually went for Ubuntu, which did a good job polishing the user experience. The build ring for Tao3D includes a number of virtual machines running several major distros for testing purpose, but it's been quite inactive for a while, and repairing it is on my short-term to-do list.
Working for Red Hat, I thought I had to use Fedora as my primary desktop. And the experience has been a bit underwhelming so far, unfortunately. In just three days, I managed to render a Mac Book Pro unbootable in OSX, had several different issues with skippy or laggy mouse cursors and even non-responsive keyboards, had a driver crash attempting to access my home Wi-Fi, found out the hard way that NFS performance is just horrible, and had to use Google for trivial things way too often.
I complained several times on this blog about what I perceived as a degradation of OSX software quality since 10.6, but this experience with Linux puts all this in some serious perspective.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 23 2016, @11:55PM
Honestly, after about 20 years of if this I feel I can safely say it all sucks...everything, the whole industry. I abandoned Windows 14 years ago and a few months ago I tried to move to Mac but now I'm back on Linux (and still unhappy). I'm sick of watching communities fracture as asshole devs insist on rewriting everything and stripping away features in the name of progress. I hate that my modern systems running Linux now crash as often as older versions of Windows once did. I hate what Microsoft and Apple have done to the industry and what the top communities did to Linux and its users. I hate how every fucking device is now a government spy tool. There's nothing exciting about this shit anymore. Seriously, walk through a computer store sometime and really look at the crap that's on sale. It's all garbage. Maybe I'm just getting older and somewhat jaded but I want less technology in my life. I want a dumb phone, a dumb car, dumb house, dumb TV... I'm sick of fighting with EVERYTHING for hours just to make it work. I'm tired of having to do research to determine if the thing I'm buying is spying on me. I used to tell myself that there is a threshold and people will eventually push back, but I no longer believe that line. People are fucking stupid and will continue to accept this shit.
Fuck you systemd, gnome3, kde4+, unity, Red Hat, every PC manufacturer, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle (on principle), Google, every government, and all the dipshits who can't seem to quit enabling bad behavior.
Happy holidays or whatever...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @05:05AM
It's your fault. YOU are the one who refused to pay for content (*) and kept insisting that "information wanted to be free", and that laws that forbid piracy were "behind the times".
What did you expect. Large corporations have huge expenses and even huger demands from shareholders, so they need to make lots and lots of money. They adapted to the new realities. But where are those profits going to come from? Ultimately, one way or another, it's going to come from you.
(*) - yes, this is a rhetorical device
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @07:00AM
I wish there were more people like you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @08:06AM
I'm sick of fighting with EVERYTHING for hours just to make it work.
Yeah, well, welcome to life.
People are fucking stupid and will continue to accept this shit.
People are fucking stupid, period. Just look at the demagogues that are getting elected now. As for UI, it's no longer designed by developers. It's designed by special "UI designers", which is why it is so much different from Windows 3.1, DOS and fluxbox days, because it's not designed by developers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bradley13 on Saturday December 24 2016, @08:18AM
"...asshole devs insist on rewriting everything and stripping away features in the name of progress"
This. Computers are tools, and tools are best when they have a standard interface that does not change. The crying need that devs have - changing something just because it's been around a few years - is idiotic. Menus! Tiles! Ribbons! 2D buttons with a border, then 3D buttons, then 2D buttons without a border.
Required car analogy: This year's cars have a steering wheel, but next year we're moving to joysticks, and after that we will go to a track balls.
"I'm sick of fighting with EVERYTHING for hours just to make it work."
Yep. And now, with IoT, we get to fight with *everything*, all the way down to our light bulbs. In an earlier thread on Soylent someone was bemoaning users who didn't update the firmware on their devices. Do you have any idea how many devices in your house have firmware? My food processor boots Linux! What about those WLAN light bulbs - if you don't let them onto your network, they will build an ad hoc network with the bulbs in your neighbor's house. Billy-Joe and Betty-Mae are not up to this. I am up to it, but there are other things I'd rather be doing with my life.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @08:38AM
. I abandoned Windows 14
How could you have done this, since Windows 10 only just came out? ["The Horror, the horror, . . . the horror."]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 24 2016, @04:01PM
Here, Here.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Hyperturtle on Saturday December 24 2016, @07:11PM
It started sucking when dial-up modems became cheap and ubiquitous; maybe around 1997 when free disks turned into CDs you couldn't overwrite. That is when the eternal september started, about that time. That is the time corporations learned they can profit from it.
My house is full of dumb things I have made an effort to get working smartly together--but that effort is no different than what I did in the late 90s and during the 2000s -- it's just that people find it to be more amazing because modern hardware is sold with most of that localized option all stripped out of it. Some of it is still the results of those original efforts, but I have added on and replaced things -- and some things are very hard to do nowadays due to the whole requiring an account somewhere in another country issue, to control what is in my hand or next to me on the counter.
My family when visiting will all laugh at the old OSes and harware, and ask why do I have a 1000 page book on networking when the wizard got them online at home? Do I really not understand any of this to the extent I needed a big picture book? and then ask how to do it after they start to see how the internet is faster, there are no ads, the wifi signal is strong, the gigabit wired connection isn't running at 10 megabits with a green 1000 light, etc.
Why save to the cloud at 10mb/s (1.2MB/s) upload speed when you can to local disk on a cheap server at 125MB/s? (1000mb/s) Buy some good drives and they last for years; buy green ones and maybe they won't. Copy stuff to an external drive and store it somewhere else if you are worried about the house burning down. Or buy insurance. Some of the protestation I get because of the desire of others to do nothing hard and that I shouldn't do anything hard too because of reasons they have that they won't do it... ok do it your way, right? But for lots of people, that means doing nothing and complaining about what they have.
I never accepted the shit you mention -- but I have been given shit here and elsewhere because of it... it does wear a guy down! Looks like it wore you down, too. Many many people like the shit they get, because to get something else, they have to shovel their way out or get used to the taste of some other shit (the shit of learning something new). Most people... they just don't give a shit themselves, so they are primed to take the shit of others.