Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Axel Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint Subject: Re: Very good rant about our loving linux Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 00:20:44 +1100 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <20260228123316.6467ee4d@gray> <10nvqia$3lc5g$2@dont-email.me> <10o15pt$51ho$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net m/HSqPIcnrQ4nWQG+In8twdtdPzBBhb0WWZd+lwAzSpBSufKW4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Sp3jaFlgoesOB6Bk8JxGrFsjYf0= sha256:nLj83hfFoFvdanWNLo8fN/vr8dTz4eafF+v29vM+VBk= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.23 In-Reply-To: <10o15pt$51ho$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.mint:46943 Handsome Jack wrote: > On Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:34:50 -0500, Alan K. wrote: > >> On 2/28/26 6:33 AM, yossarian wrote: >>> There is for me a very good rant about Linux. I agree with him for most >>> of things. He didn't even mention my favorite flat design and gray >>> fonts. >>> https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-product-philosophy.html >>> >> I don't really see his rant. Of course I'm in a big way a user not a >> geek. >> >> If the machine runs, it's good. Oh I can get in the background and >> fix/adjust a few things but I couldn't tell you if I had Wayland or X11 >> (actually I could in LM). >> >> I also have a KDE OS and I don't know, easily, if it's KDE 5 or 6, >> Wayland or X11, systemd or other. To me, it works. I'd have to run >> inxi or neofetch to get a hint. > > > Neither inxi nor neofetch tell you. I don't even know what Wayland or X11 > are, or how they relate to XFCE or XFWM4 or any of the other alphabet > soups. I expect I could learn, but I don't know what good it would do me. > I read the Wayland entry in Wikipedia and I couldn't make head or tail of > it. > > The main limitation of Linux (specifically LM) for me is that some minor > things - matters of practical importance - do not work properly and there > seems no prospect that they will get fixed. what things? > The developers appear to be > more interested in grand long-term projects to replace things that already > do work. > the only thing that annoys me is the super small window controls- minimize, expand, close. I can't think of any good reason for making them that small. -- Linux Mint 22.3