Now I remember why I left debian in the first place. Printing. I can't get my Brother printer to print now that I've switched to Debian. I'd like to rant all over both Brother (and their crappy support for CUPS printing) and Debian (for their non-standard way of doing things). However, neither is going to help me figure out what to do next. I'm thinking that going back to Kubuntu Edgy would be a really good idea, at least my printing worked there. I switched up my partition scheme to what it should have been for a long time. I partitioned off / from /home so that I can completely change out distros and keep my home dir intact. It'll be a sweet day when Linux can live up to the hype of some, and overcome the hurdles others create.
Well, I'm not sure what to do next, I've removed and reinstalled the drivers from Brother to no avail. My printer lights up like its going to print, and then nothing happens. (Kinda like Curly's "I'm trying to think and nothing happens!). Well, I gotta finish getting ready for tonight, despite being more discouraged for some reason than I've been in a long time.
Showing posts with label Problems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Problems. Show all posts
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Friday, December 22, 2006
Tired of Fighting
Well, no, I haven't forgotten about the BLOG. I did postpone working with it for a while though.
Today's topic: Tired of Fighting in Linuxland.
Linux is really beginning to suck wind. Sorry, but that's the best I can say about it. Why?
Easy, There is NO way to stay decently up to date.
There is NO way to just do an install of an application.
There is NO decent hardware support.
Should I go on?
Now, some of you are going to try and argue that distro X has this part or that part, the problem is NOT A SINGLE STINKING one of them have it right! Debian is technically at the top, but they have WAY too many cry babies, and jerks. On one hand you can't use their "trademarked" name, but yet they whine and moan about Firefox wanting to trademark its name. Stupid, absolutely STUPID! They don't mind putting anything into their distro, or working with anyone as long as you're not MORE popular than they are, or as long as you don't try to control what they can do. Its OK, however, for them to control you with their ignoramoose manifesto.
SUSE is also one of the best technical distros, however, once you install it, that's it. NO updates. I'm not talking about security or bug fixes, but new versions are out. Now, it may have changed with OpenSUSE since 10, but I doubt it. The problem is that you can't even download the source and just compile it. Thanks to their oddball way of locating the libraries, and refusal to populate the ld.so.conf file, you have to manually run configure with a hundred switches. And, now with Novell selling out and hooking up with Micro$oft, I wouldn't run SUSE at all.
Ubuntu being a Debian derivative is right there with its older brother. However, once they release version X they're as bad as SUSE about new versions of software. There is still no package, or set of packages, for OpenOffice.org 2.1, and other software even for Edgy! And from what I can tell there aren't any plans to make any. Granted I could jump through a thousand hoops with alien and convert the rpms, but that's another bone to pick.
Anyway, they're all beginning to show their age, and I'm getting tired of fighting my computer just to get basic stuff to run.
Since upgrading to Edgy, I can no longer simply run VNC, as a matter of fact, can't run VNC At all. Why? who knows? no one is telling.
Another reason I'm beginning to get tired of Linux, is the stupid, yes stupid, refusal to dump "package" management. I think that is the absolute dumbest part of Linux. Why can't I just run setup, or install and install an application regardless of what distribution I'm running? Because, we're to technical to be smart enough to make that possible.
I think package management has its place, but for general use, a simple installer for applications would make life easier.
There are many other reasons, but I'm getting pressured to do other things, so I'll leave you with those thoughts. And, YES, I'm upset at problems on my Linux machines.
Today's topic: Tired of Fighting in Linuxland.
Linux is really beginning to suck wind. Sorry, but that's the best I can say about it. Why?
Easy, There is NO way to stay decently up to date.
There is NO way to just do an install of an application.
There is NO decent hardware support.
Should I go on?
Now, some of you are going to try and argue that distro X has this part or that part, the problem is NOT A SINGLE STINKING one of them have it right! Debian is technically at the top, but they have WAY too many cry babies, and jerks. On one hand you can't use their "trademarked" name, but yet they whine and moan about Firefox wanting to trademark its name. Stupid, absolutely STUPID! They don't mind putting anything into their distro, or working with anyone as long as you're not MORE popular than they are, or as long as you don't try to control what they can do. Its OK, however, for them to control you with their ignoramoose manifesto.
SUSE is also one of the best technical distros, however, once you install it, that's it. NO updates. I'm not talking about security or bug fixes, but new versions are out. Now, it may have changed with OpenSUSE since 10, but I doubt it. The problem is that you can't even download the source and just compile it. Thanks to their oddball way of locating the libraries, and refusal to populate the ld.so.conf file, you have to manually run configure with a hundred switches. And, now with Novell selling out and hooking up with Micro$oft, I wouldn't run SUSE at all.
Ubuntu being a Debian derivative is right there with its older brother. However, once they release version X they're as bad as SUSE about new versions of software. There is still no package, or set of packages, for OpenOffice.org 2.1, and other software even for Edgy! And from what I can tell there aren't any plans to make any. Granted I could jump through a thousand hoops with alien and convert the rpms, but that's another bone to pick.
Anyway, they're all beginning to show their age, and I'm getting tired of fighting my computer just to get basic stuff to run.
Since upgrading to Edgy, I can no longer simply run VNC, as a matter of fact, can't run VNC At all. Why? who knows? no one is telling.
Another reason I'm beginning to get tired of Linux, is the stupid, yes stupid, refusal to dump "package" management. I think that is the absolute dumbest part of Linux. Why can't I just run setup, or install and install an application regardless of what distribution I'm running? Because, we're to technical to be smart enough to make that possible.
I think package management has its place, but for general use, a simple installer for applications would make life easier.
There are many other reasons, but I'm getting pressured to do other things, so I'll leave you with those thoughts. And, YES, I'm upset at problems on my Linux machines.
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