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Because you've done it a couple of hundred times. Hand a Windows DVD and a PC with a blank hard drive to Joe Sixpack and see if they think it 'just works'.



Usually it's 'my PC was working...

Have you ever tried to install Windows on a new PC?

Have you ever dealt with non-techie Windows users whose system is broken?

The only reason you can say that is because OEMs ship systems with...

Every time I read a programming web site and someone asks a question about how to do something in Windows and the response is along the lines of 'Oh, that's easy, you just have to catch the WM_DOODOO...

Pulseaudio's main problem was that Ubuntu pushed it out to end users before it was ready for prime time (and I complained about it plenty myself). Now it works pretty well on every system where I've...

And replace them with a whole bunch of new ones.

The idea that garbage collection magically solves all your security problems is laughable.

Would probably be beneficial for things like MythTV, where quality is often less important than being able to watch the show less than an hour after it's finished recording.

The 'ribbon' is astonishingly good at displaying lots of icons I have no need or intention to use at the time while hiding the ones I do want. If only they could flip a switch somewhere to make it...

I am totally scared that someone is going to install a hacked kernel on my systems.



If my servers start rebooting randomly to install hacked kernels, I think I'll notice. Whereas if I can't...

Because the average user is definitely going to sit down and learn to write extensions just to add functionality that the developers refuse to countenance, and then maintain it as future updates...

Garbage collection is braindead. It's supposed to prevent programmers screwing up memory allocation and deallocation, but just gives them a whole new set of ways to screw up instead while sucking up...

It's a few years since I've worked on graphics chips, but AFAIR the VRAM output was connected directly to the RAMDAC for the screen, so the GPU didn't have to read the data, just clock it out.
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They're going a funny way about it, then. Unity works fairly well on my netbook, but it's a disaster on a larger screen.

Or just apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

So, yet more crap people will be bugging me to help them remove after they accidentally install it.

Is anyone still building web browsers that just, you know, do web browsing with minimal overhead?

To be fair, Gimp's 'splatter windows all over the screen and force the tool windows to the top over the image you're actually editing' design is crap everywhere.

I seem to remember Intel already picked up many of 3Dlabs' discrete GPU design folks when they got out of the workstation graphics business? From the various articles it's hard to tell exactly what...

I'm not sure when Linux DEs started doing this, but it's one of the behaviours I most hate and have to turn off every time I start using a new one. I'm sick of moving windows around and having them...

I just switched to XFCE, with the intention of using it for a while until I switched from Ubuntu to Mint. But this version is good enough that I don't know if I'll ever want to go back to Gnome. I...

Why should 90% of Linux devices have to waste a lot of time cutting out bloat because a few percent want it?



Of course it does. It pushes your maintenance costs off onto the OS developers, who...

Uh, no. It tells you that Linux won't keep bolting bodges onto old APIs when they could just dump the whole thing and create something better. If no-one cares enough about supporting old hardware to...