Why Linux Sucks

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What is with calling applications stupid names like "helix player" ?

Infact, helix-player is a replacement for the realvideo/realaudio application in debian testing however it does not play the .ram feeds which is exactly what you would use RealPlayer for? What's the point of replacing it with a newer player only to find it doesnt play what you wanted it for?

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Just occurs to me that there is now a 50/50 split of Linux's focus on the future.

Half the people are trying to improve things that imitate (often necessarily!) other peoples' work, half the people are working on innovative new things that do things differently (No I can't think of an example right now), and half the people are working on stuff they really don't need to bother with.

Yes that's 3 halves, thats the way my brain works.

Strikes me that Linux should push a better paradigm, more so than pushing existing ones.

For example(s):

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heres a typical thing, if you've been stuck in Linux land for several years you may no longer notice this as you've forgotten just how adept you are (arent you lucky!) to be able to pickup new interfaces pretty quickly, but it's not until you follow what all the zealots say and convert an office full of people qualified barely enough todo data-entry tasks to a Linux based desktop solution that you really start to notice how inconsistant it is.

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One thing that I see consistantely is applications that have options you can see but they are grey'ed out, early versions of nicotine suffered from this, ofcourse if you were 'in the know' you'de know that you missed a certain configuration parameter in your user preferences. KDE or gnome or any app for this matter suffers from this

The Gimp suffers from this extensively, heres an example of what I mean..

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Several applications do not handle a situation where your disk is current fully or becomes read-only, such as NFS situations or your laptop running out of space, this isnt such a big issue as the user can avoid it however it DOES happen, applications such as firefox will loose all of your browsing history (why not just not add any history? I cant see why it would throw out your previous set),

MySQL will give you an "error 28" when there are too many files in /tmp.

Earlier versions of KDE/KDM would get stuck into a KDM crashing loop and you had to reboot

Im sure there are more.