Why Linux Sucks

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?

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):

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..