Comments on: 1000 reasons to hate Ubuntu Linux

By: Windows Shopper

Windows Shopper — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:32:02 +0000

I hate ubuntu because, unlike many, I’m NOT a computer hacker/nerd/dweeb who has time to sit around all night pretending to be Neo, wasting time “tweaking” some bullshit “free” ware. I haven’t had 1 good experience with this Ubuntu 10.04 bullshit yet. I can’t reload my mp3 player because I have to download a bundle of horseshit in order to do what Windows is already prepared to do. You get what you pay for, and I got diddly. I’ll never be back to this Linux open sores bullshit, and I’m tired of the fucktards who only seek to bash Gates in order to champion this shlock. There’s a valid reason why Microsoft is controlling market share globally, and I’m going back asap. Some of us aren’t interested in programming computers. Some of us like to enjoy technology. I stopped pulling my own teeth years ago, nor would I attempt to remove someone’s appendix without proper training. Linux is for programmers, people who have time to fuck with oddly named applications and such. Cute. Fuck on, but leave me in the real world of getting my work done. Ubuntu—Ubullshit!

By: Mark Shuttleworth

Mark Shuttleworth — Tue, 25 May 2010 06:44:08 +0000

You should really try Lucid Lynx it’s amazing,much better than that WinShit

By: pff

pff — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:22:09 +0000

the main reason to hate Ubuntu is the people who use it.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:36:33 +0000

I just installed Ubuntu and I have none of these screen issues you’re talking about. Then again, I used the package manager and spent an hour tweaking the installation to my liking. So maybe I’m not actually really using Ubuntu, but rather Debian with a slightly easier configuration.

By: Ben2talk

Ben2talk — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:45:45 +0000

VERTICAL screenspace is the problem with the two panels, if they don’t autohide. My first job is to get Gnome-do as ‘docky’ at the bottom for my window switching, delete that panel, add a left side panel for the notifications and disk mounter, shortcuts (default in Crunchbang) Super + T for terminal, E for explore, F for Firefox, O for opera etc etc

The top bar stays, I quite like the ‘globalmenu’ as it saves vertical screenspace on every window you have – and set it to autohide.

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:05:19 +0000

The problem, Monica, is that there is a reason that Linux is not more widely used, and it is not because everyone using Windows is computer illiterate. Philippe is completely on the nose – Linux can be an incredible productivity sink. Whether I know how to fix drivers that break is irrelevant. What matters is that I’m spending my time doing things I shouldn’t have to. So far, something is ALWAYS broken when I install Ubuntu on a machine. Why in the world would this be fun to anyone? And how in the world is this sophisticated? A sophisticated OS would have me not worry about these issues, but still give me plenty of customization options should I want them. And Windows (XP) indeed manages to do that quite well.

By: monica h.

monica h. — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:27:36 +0000

Just one comment to the one about the low ratio of Linux to Windows users: what’s the problem with that? So what if the majority of the population is computer illiterate and can’t deal with a little bit of sophistication and “free will,” as it were, to use open source software? Not being mainstream is a good thing in my opinion. It’s what keeps us safe!

By: Philippe Back

Philippe Back — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:27:49 +0000

I used Ubuntu on a laptop that I carried around for 6 months. Nothing else allowed and the settings were corporate.

Lots of issues when it comes to using it in a real Windows-dominated place.

Namely:

1- network printers support : baaad. Had to change the printing system for detecting network printers. Printout were not precise enough, some glitches here and there, looking not too professional.

2- wifi: issues happening all the time when dealing with Cisco enterprise access points: a true nightmare

3-power management: weak point for Linux. With XP, the battery lasted 3h+. With Linux 1.5h, even with heavy tweaking.

4-external monitors and projector support. xrandr is no way to do things when you do a presentation to management and the system decides to not do your bidding.

5-OpenOffice : PPT compatibility is a myth. WMF drawings are ok in Linux and turn out to be shitty in PowerPoint when opened there.

6-usb key support : keys got erased for no reason. Files do not show up. Formatting was a joke.

7-Standby/Hibernate/Resume: too bad, was working 8 times out of ten (when lucky).

8-Spent 20%+ of my time getting the system to work instead of getting work done. Linux is a productivity sink in that respect.

9-Dia was giving different renderings on windows and on linux for the same file… bad !

10-Video format support was pretty lame, pictures too bright, requiring trying out various rendering systems etc. Ate up chunks of the remaining 80% of productivity.

11-Creative Zen support for podcasts: very bad, not working at times.

Conclusion: the laptop is back to WinXP and Ubuntu runs inside a VM where all hardware is managed properly by Windows. No issue since then.

Plus points of Ubuntu: CodeBlocks works fine in there where as it is shit to get working inside Windows.

Conclusion2: I am running Inkscape and Scribus + the Gimp in Windows now. They work great.

By: kumailht

kumailht — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:40:23 +0000

@Macrohard
Damn, You scared me there for a minute Thanks for the comment! Its a great addition to this post

By: Macrohard

Macrohard — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:29:40 +0000

As a Microsoft Certified Consultant I have many reasons to hate Ubuntu:

1- Open free software may threaten the dominance our multi-billion dollar market leaders;

2- Open free software may reduce sales for companies that depend exclusively on proprietary software;

3- Open free software may cost the job of people that have invested all their lives on becoming certified exclusively on Microsoft products;

4- Open free software is a treat for the dominance of software patents and royalties;

5- Open free software reduces the possibilities to lock customers on proprietary solutions;

6-Open free software is a treat for the growth of sales of proprietary software in developing countries;

7-Open free desktop software has a better performance than the market leading operating system;

8-Open free desktop software is safer and will threaten the antivirus software market;

9-Open free software increases dangerously the awareness of what we are paying for;

10-Open free software will eventually force a change of the status quo of the world and of the software market.

my 2 billion USD contribution