What "using Linux" problems have people encountered?

[overcast]

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[ubuntu_demon]

-the security and the ability to customize everything is worth some glitches
-Ubuntu is more polished and stable than windows. Mac is even more polished and more or less equally stable as Ubuntu.

regarding the problems :
-nautilus and smbclient : nautilus crashes often and most of the time this is related to my mounted remote shares (I haven't really deeply investigated this yet)
-ET and teamspeak don't work together yet for most people who you have onboard audio
see : http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=254384 I don't know who I have to blame for this (teamspeak?,ac97 chip?intel?ubuntu?) but I'm sure it will be solved eventually

some stuff you can't blame on Ubuntu :
-a lot of very cool applications are still heavily in development such as ipodder,freenx,gaim-vv
http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/index.php (just be patient and grateful)
-game industry doesn't like us because linux market share isn't high enough
-hardware manufacturers don't like us because linux market share isn't high enough (HP and a few others being positive exceptions)

[El_Don_Casper]

Three problems;
1: I have a laptop and everything is proprietary so i had to spend 3 hours configuring the wireless card. (just a pet peeve)
2: in order to get 3d to work i had to edit the xorg config file manually instead of using the built in automated thingy
3: installer poorly explains what keys to use to select stuff, (space, who knew)

im a noob only had linux for about 4 month, mostly because windows starting crashing every 5 minutes and i decided screw windows ill just suffer along until i figure out linux

[Zodiac]

2) Nautilus crashed fairly often, as in my desktop icons dissappeared, a simple killall nautilus fixed that. I have personally submitted this to bugzilla.

This one is HUGE for me... have you had any resolution to this????

[Stormy Eyes]

Having had to reinstall Ubuntu after borking my install, I have to say that esd is a huge frigging problem for me, since my machine uses an Audigy2 card. I got rid of it as soon as I could, made sure everything used ALSA for sound, and now my machine purrs like a kitten.

[ssck]

i'll say getting drivers for devices would be one of the major issues .... also battery support for laptops as well

and to add on to what i have said :-

1) i still have problems playing dvds
2) battery support (indicator) still doesn't work
3) nautilus crashes

[teapot]

My list of Linux problems:
1) Installation difficulties (not valid for thread author, but it's a turn-off)
2) Lack of clarity in font rendering
3) Color matching/calibration difficulties (monitor vs printer)
4) Difficulties with multimedia, mainly latency problems
5) Missing drivers (printers, video and mice, in my case)
6) Inconsistancies between applications, particularly drag-and-drop issues
7) Lack of support, especially for #5

Yeah, each point can be overcome, in a way. But it's not "Windows-easy".

...cringing, awaiting flames

[poofyhairguy]

My list of Linux problems:
1) Installation difficulties (not valid for thread author, but it's a turn-off)
2) Lack of clarity in font rendering
3) Color matching/calibration difficulties (monitor vs printer)
4) Difficulties with multimedia, mainly latency problems
5) Missing drivers (printers, video and mice, in my case)
6) Inconsistancies between applications, particularly drag-and-drop issues
7) Lack of support, especially for #5

Yeah, each point can be overcome, in a way. But it's not "Windows-easy".

...cringing, awaiting flames

No flames. We all know Linux has driver problems.

[student]

the one thing that makes me "miss" windows, is a decent mp3 mixer app.
in windows i regularly used "traktor dj".

"All" I look for, is an app that can mix 2 mp3's, and a button to sync the bpm.
I havent fond one yet, but if anyone can point me towards one, windows would almost dissapear from my mind

[Nanaki]

1. Driver support, including non-working Hibernate. Got my hopes up for Breezy.
2. I like installers, I know I should like Synaptic more, but that ain't true for me.
3. Games.
4. Useless apps installed by default (who the *beep* plays that many OS-games? They should narrow it down to three and throw the rest in the repositories).
5. _Three_ menu's for configuration.
6. "Places" was translated incorrectly, so you stare at a misspell all the time. They already fixes this tho for Gnome 2.12.
7. Linux/Gnome is slow. While Windows "responds" when I click, Gnome "lags". When I use Firefox in Windows, it flies and responds to my clicks immediatly. In Linux everything feels so much slower.

Especially the last one is the reason I'm not working on Ubuntu most of the time. Oh well, the good thing about OSS is constant improvement.

Edit: oh-oh, 8. battery support blows. But I mean really, really blows, big time. I don't care about this because I don't work on my battery a lot, but I tried it one time, and it drained my battery in about 2 houres 30 minutes while I was just browsing. I once played 7 hours Half-Life full detail in Windows. Heh.