Why Linux Sucks

Once I was using thunderbird in some distro of linux, I can't remember. This was up to date, like a recent version of Kubuntu, just a few months ago.

Right I'm in thunderbird, its maximised, I go to close the window, I move my mouse hard up and right. I click my mouse, and what happens.... nothing.

See how the X button isn't at the exact edge of the screen, well I wasn't actually over the X button, so the window didn't close.

Windows had the same problem, you know when it was fixed? When IE4 came out, with a pack for Windows 95 that made some changes to the UI. That was about 10 years ago, and it still hasn't been fixed in linux. Exactly the same thing happens with taskbar application buttons. I must have changed the UI theme or something, which was enough to make this happen.

Two things, no doubt it works fine on your linux. I am sure of it, and I believe you.

No doubt I could have fixed it in my version of linux, but I switched back to windows shortly after. (I had more problems playing videos, my webcam didn't have drivers, neither did my VOIP phone, problems with dependencies, and my printer took 3 days to set up & it took ages to boot) couldn't get java working in opera - in windows I click next 3 times and its working fine. In linux, I fire up vim and start hitting the config files. Many applications were slower to start in linux than they were in windows. All that mounting/unmounting malarky.

Don't get me wrong, I think linux is good. I love command line tools, I love vim, everything on my computer except windows is free software, much of it open source. It just amuzed me that something fixed in win95 is still a bug in linux. I look forward to what linux will be like in 20 years or so, it should be better than windows.