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by piger 5476 days ago
People keep saying "it works for me, go away", as if other people who care about a DECENT desktop experience are just morons.

"Ah! Another stupid windows/osx user!"

I don't care about your fvwm desktop with 99 xterms and emacs everywhere, or your fully customized arch linux that "works for you"; I, like many other people, have different needs. And yet the general response from the community is "fuck off".

First rule of desktop linux: you do not complain about desktop linux.

Greetings from the year 2011.
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mbubb 5476 days ago
No - not true. There are glitches but none of them a dealbreaker. I am not a masochist - if it caused me pain I would have stopped using Linux on my laptop years ago.

Much of what I do is commandline. So a not atypical work setup is to have some kind of messenger, a browser, a terminal and thunderbird running.

That is 95% of my day and it works great. I would switch if it didn't. I am not trying to play the Linux version of the longbearded UNIX grump (http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-06-24/) .

Really it works great and I would not willingly go back to Windows. And would grudgingly go back to MacOS.

I don't understand the flipside - why people complain about Linux desktop. You should make it work or go back to your OS of choice.

I get sucked into these articles because I think I might learn something or see something in a different way. THey almost always disapoint.

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wvenable 5476 days ago
> You should make it work or go back to your OS of choice.

I'm not sure that's even possible. If the complaint is a lack of drivers and poor support for hardware, how is the average developer supposed to deal with that?

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zppx 5476 days ago
Well to be fair I saw a lot of people downvoted on HN because they got valid points criticizing OS X or even Rails, so your first rule applies in some other situations too, at least here, maybe it's a problem about discussions on the internet...

I use a Mac so I understand their criticisms sometimes, sometimes I think they're just whining, as I think of this article.

I think that an article about a switch for Windows would have been much better.

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