Quote Originally Posted by CtrlAltDel View Post
Another happy GNU/Linux OS user here I agree with 1D4LV about the usability of a Linux OS on the desktop.
Linux is a viable desktop OS for anyone so long as it meets their needs. I'm familiar with Linux enough (all the way back to Slackware 3.4 in 1995). It's been quite usable for me since Mandrake 6.0 back in 1999. Even the progress made from 1995 to 1999 was a lot. But, there's still little things, little niggly things that sometimes frustrate me enough not to use Linux all the time.

For one thing, many distros still don't have an easy access PPPoE interface. Someone point me towards the right direction if I'm wrong. But, when I set up an Ubuntu pc for a friend, he had Quest DSL instead of Cox Cable broadband. I was surprised to find a lack of a graphical setup tool for it. I had to resort to a terminal window and use pppoeconf.

Then, the big majority of distros still don't have the proper codecs. A few like the aforementioned Pardus 2008 and Linuxmint (Ubuntu media-oriented subdistro) do have a complete suite. But, not all have them.

One personal beef I have is a lack of a simple desktop icon auto-arrange on all the X-interfaces. Be it KDE, Gnome, or Enlightment, there is no icon autoarrange. There's also no "hide all icons" option. Maybe I've missed a setting somewhere. if I did, someone please point me towards it.

That brings up the biggest issue I have with Linux which is a lack of uniformity among them. I mean it's nice to have Linux as very customizable. But, I think there should be some uniformity of the basics.

One last beef I have with Linux in general is the lack of a stable video editor. It's been two years since I attempted video editing in Linux. I've tried several including Cinelerra. All I can say is that it made Moviemaker 2 for Windows XP and Vista look rock-solid. Maybe it's better now. But, I haven't made any attempts lately at running Linux except for Linuxmint.