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We love to praise linux constantly and tell everyone to change to it (they should) but what are your biggest annoyances ?

Mine would be, installing software (made even more complex by flatpaks being added, among the 5 other ways there already were to install software) and probably wifi power management issues.

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[–] sanderium@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It is not Linux itself but:

  • I dislike when something goes wrong with a program and the documentation is not clear on how to fix it. But I do not complain because it is understandable when developers write documentation they have to choose who's hand to hold, if they choose to help everyone then the documentation can get long and perhaps redundant.

  • When one is a beginner and installs a distribution for the first time one can get scared by the splash screen showing errors which are 99% of the time safe to ignore (e.g showing that a device was not found). I know its important for developers and advanced users to know all this info but it can make beginners feel so damn scared (like me).

  • Naming, like in the general sense, it seems like many software have some ridiculous names (dolphin, ncmpcpp, gimp, foot, gnome). Very subjective, I know, but in the end I love and hate these names.

  • Bluetooth... yeah.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Naming, like in the general sense, it seems like many software have some ridiculous names (dolphin, ncmpcpp, gimp, foot, gnome)

For dolphin, if your talking about the emulator it is avalible for windows too and its called that since thats what the gamecube was called internally.

For gimp, yeah i hate the name too, its the "gnu imange manipulation program" and is also avalible for windows.

Those programs that look like random assortments of characters are generally libraries that other programs use to standarize functionality across programs. Don't want there to be 15 different ways for your computer to understand "write this file to this location" for example. You'll generally never need to know what they are or what they do.

[–] sanderium@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly. Anyway, I was referring to KDE's file manager(Dolphin).

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Ah, I don't use KDE, that is a dumb name for a file manager.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'm a perpetual child so I like Gimp. Lol