Hi,
As I came to Linux Ubuntu from OSX the thing I miss most is a good and simple agenda like the OSX "Calendar". Also scanning in Linux Ubuntu leaves me with a greyish background which is very noticeable when printing the scanned document as against the OSX Twain which when printed, it was difficult to differentiate the original from the copy, one background was as white as the other. Once a .pdf is scanned I have 3 applications in Linux Ubuntu to crop, assemble, disassemble and comment onto .pdf pages; in OSX there is one.
Generally speaking I admit that it is far easier to use OSX than Linux Ubuntu in virtually all aspects, compatible hardware and applications whether included in OSX or external.
Having had my little cry I also freely admit that to be able to do all that we can do for free, is fabulous. I also feel far less spied upon by big brother using Ubuntu.
Garoolgan

I am now retired so it is all you now but a few views from
40 Years Of Unix and Microsoft experience perhaps you
Might listen to me or not I can’t care anymore

1. Unity

The continued hatred for each other has to end.

The downright Linux racism among the Penguins 🐧
Shows nothing more than their own fear of Microsoft
And the brilliance of what they have done.

The brilliant minds who used the root of the tree Unix
To do wonderful things have not even come close to the
Dominant forces behind Microsoft don’t ever forget the root
Of Microsoft is also Unix or you shall be very sorry

The bottom line is our user never ever forget this
He does not care the engine under the hood
It just has to work and have someone to call

So you Penguins 🐧 might just want to take a page
Out of the Unix book 📖 and find a way to work
With Microsoft for they have the ear of the source
Of your future technology releases you do not

The Penguins 🐧 shall not rule as you have been lied to believe

You shall find out the Singularity shall not care who
she talks to as long as they care

Penguins do not give a care

They better or shall be forgotten in the AI revolution

It is here good bye browsers forever

Cya it has been fun

Beam me up Sister no intelligent life left here

Bye 👋

I'm fine thank you

support from larger software companies, like Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) creators.
Dont get me wrong, i LOVE LMMS, but at one point in my career ima gunna need something more capable with less bugs etc.
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Apart from this , everything is perfect for me since 16.04

You should give inxi a shot (https://github.com/smxi/inxi). It doesn't quite do what ioscan does, but it's along the same lines, especially in verbose mode.

mostly response here said "more firmware, more support, more binaries"...

recently Microsoft releases Azure for electrodomestics ... WITH LINUX.. so, where's the contribution to the kernel of these works?

linux developers need information and stack to code.. so then can made GOOD PACKAGES, due binaries breack rules

the other side its the windozers-infiltrates-deelopers, systemd by example its a windo-like service, integration? sound like "microsoft" too, was the first "reason" to "integrate" (uhg again) all in systemd

i forgot_linux now are pretty same as mocosfot or any other vendors.. now kernel removes codes for other devices due "ollder or obsolete" pufff my video capture card was working perfectluy until 3.2 and then cutting source happened...

I would love a usable "time" screensaver. Or clock screensaver that sets up easily. I'm a newbie.

Thanks!

I would like to see a good stock and futures charting software. TD Ameritrade does a pretty good job, and Stockcharts is very good, but neither are close to Tradestation, which is the workhorse of almost all traders.

An easier path to include proprietary codecs. I'm running Tumbleweed and when I add the packman repo and use it for many months, my OS slowly get's out of sync with the opensuse repos. It is a huge pain to run a zypper "dup" to stay current. Both Fedora and Ubuntu seem to handle this better with less work. Also, Red Hat should either bring btrfs back into the mainline builds or introduce OpenZFS. Neither XFS or EXT4 are optimized for resilient desktop use.

cheers!

Missing the solution to my problem of "Keyboard not working in kali linux after updating it."

Sound / audio that's easily configurable, straightforward, and documented. I use Linux because I need to do things that are unusual. Audio is one area where I'm almost perpetually frustrated, regardless of the distribution.

From the desktop specifically, A file and network browser as powerful and simple to use as Windows explorer.

I have been using computers since before Windows and Linux existed. Windows and X were the first graphical desktops I used. Windows is where I landed, and where I have spent most of my professional and personal life. I have had a Linux machine around since its beginnings, especially as servers both for work and home. In Windows I have always lived in the file explorer, and it can do pretty much everything I need quickly, simply, and intuitively. In Linux, there are many different file explorers and they are not well integrated with the OS. Most Navigation panes are terrible, especially the tree view. Network browsing and mounting is horrible in all of them.

Maybe I'm just old and used to Windows explorer, but I've been at this stuff a long time and that is the only reason I don't use Linux Desktops full time. As I said this is specifically the Linux desktop. All of my personal servers and some work servers are definitely Linux.


buzz

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If you have your network mounted, any file manager will be able to see your files.

Probably for me, it boils down to these two main things:

1. A few things that are way harder than they should be. For example, installing Firefox from the website (not the distribution Firefox) is really easy on Windows, just run the .exe, select the location in Program Files, and let it do its thing. On Linux, you need to extract the tar.gz, move to /opt, create a symlink in /usr/bin, and finally create a launch shortcut in /usr/share/applications (for Mint). It's not impossible, but there are these occasional tasks that are so easy in Windows, yet so hard in Linux.
2. How I can use something like Linux, BSD, OSX, or ChromeOS to do about 95% of anything I need to do (being a student, mostly Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations), but still needing Windows for that 5%, usually when working with a very complex document that needs full, Windows Office or when needing to run some odd or really obscure program that only works on Windows.