Comments on: What’s Missing in a Linux Distro?

By: Batman

Batman — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:26:51 +0000

User experience.

User experience is what is totally lacking in all Linux distros and is what is totally ignored by all FOSS developers and advocates.

No one is responsible, and pushing, for user experience.

By: alvlin

alvlin — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:49:54 +0000

I have my needs almost fully covered by my Slackware setup, but what I would really like to have is a fully MSN compatible client.
I use Pidgin or Kopete, and they work fine for text-only, but there is no way to get a MSN videoconference working on them. Kopete only works with the camera (no sound) and Pidgin does not support anything but text.
I use skype sometimes, but not everybody has it, and I can’t just go on asking people to install it and set it up just to talk with me once in a while…
aMSN doesn’t work either: you can use sound and video but not videoconference (voice+video at the same time).

That is what I miss, and it is one of the few reasons I keep a virtual machine with WinXP around.

By: yoyo

yoyo — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:06:45 +0000

Even if what you ask for were possible, it would mean using too much memory while the change takes place, and possibly wait 15 seconds or so. Then you would be complaining about that!

By: mela1

mela1 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:54:28 +0000

I haven’t been able to use my Canon scanner (LiDe 60)since Ubuntu’s Dapper 6.04, because it’s not recognized in 8.04 or 8.10. Same condition in several other distros as well.