What’s your “Linux Whine?� « Robitaille’s Blog

Recently on 43folders.com Merlin Mann asked his predomendately Mac crowd for their best Mac whines. He got 191 comments up to now, some very interesting. I thought that was great idea so I decided to expand it to Linux.

Don’t get me wrong I’m a big fan of Linux but there are still plenty of things that irritate me about it. See my comments on the Computeractive Linux forum about trying to install graphics drivers for an example. It was a good education in not relying on first impressions. The nVidia drivers require use of the command prompt but worked once the correct dependancies had been resolved. Ati was another matter. There is a graphical front end to the installation process but you still have to run a command line script at the end. That didn’t work. And neither did X afterwards. I found the xconfig script and that did get X working again but I’m no closer to a 3D desktop on that computer.

One day, one day…..