I would like it if i could get more windows progroms on linux, like Dreamweaver, you can always use wine, but a linux version would be much better. For some reason my dvd drives dont work with wine programs.

I would like to find a one click DVD copying program like DVD Cloner 3. Nothing I have found has come close yet. I spent a week trying to make some copies of my daughters Disney movies for her to take to the babysitters, they get treated very poorly there, and had to go back to Windows to get it done.

1)Complicated, not 1 element of setting up linux is easy
2)Slow unless it is set up right - see point 1!
3) to much choice (soooo many distros)
4)difficult to install new programs
5)not even tried printing yet, but I guess its a nightmare

1. i just set up some FC5 boxes for family members. they pretty much installed and worked right out of the box -- moreso than any windows i put on their computers, which needed a bunch of drivers to find, download, install, and then hours of system configuration.
2. see point 1
3. choice is good. besides, most linux bashers say windows is better because there's so much software to choose from (and pay for ). double standard.
4. sorry, but pacman -S <package>, apt-get install <package>, yum install <package> are not difficult.
5. install .ppd file, install cups. point browser to localhost:631. go through config wizard. done.

What I don't like about Linux (Or the company people who don't bother about Linux and its users) is that many things just don't work. Atleast for the common man with 1 yr linux experience at home alone. People who develop Linux versions cannot be held responsible for this because many things depend on Companies' desision like proprietory printer drivers. As long as the company guys don't release them out there is nothing to be done.
It was almost impossible to make my canon ip1000 printer work under linux. Only the japanese canon site had the drivers and filters for the printer.
In the CD that shipped with the printer, they included drivers only for Windows and Mac. Who will include drivers for Linux? Canon's Grandfather?
I struggled with it for sometime and took "help" of some "experts". (In my country every fool who does warez business is an expert on computer issues. Thanks to more fools out there every incompetent TOM-DICK-HARRY has some expertise to show. Remember: IN the country of the blind, the man with one eye is the king! There are no LUGs in my country and even if they are there they suck like those warez d00dz. Attitude is not a substitute for competence.) A search at my college turned up nothing.

Finally, I shelled $ for Turboprint and settled for it. I bought the printer for Rs.2500 but the drivers cost me almost Rs. 2000

A printer driver license was what inspired Respected Richard Stallman to strive for and start the GNU. In 20 years, we are still far away from freedom.

Hope something turns up soon or has already turned up.

What was that Linus - quote? "Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers..."


What I least like about linux is having to defend it.
I definitely know less about linux than I do about windows... even Dos probably, but I'm having less problems, and noone believes me.

As a few others have said ... fonts. There's a great howto on these forums that will help get you good looking fonts, but it's not necessarily easy for newbies (download source, edit, recompile, etc.)

Outdated documentation. You can search out all kinds of help on the web, but you have to be careful not to follow older howtos and guidelines that may be totally irrelevant. Sometimes it's difficult to tell what's reasonably current.

(This is at least going by Mandriva, not sure how other distributions are)

1) May be complicated to some degrees, but I find quite a bit in Mandrivalinux to be the same as windows, in terms of how easy it is to use it. Web browser, just click the icon and you're online, just like Windows. KMail, set it up like Outlook, and it's there.
Music? Pop the disc in, and it plays! So I can't agree on "not one element of setting up linux is easy"
If you're talking settings settings, then there aren't too many easy ways of getting it going, but a lot of hardware is automatically configured, making some things easy to solve, like the printer, and LAN card.

2) Some things may be slow, other things not. I still don't mind, being I'd rather use linux anyway.

3) Too many choices and distro's? That's why I LOVE Linux! After I started using linux, and saw how many applications and programs that they have, and distros, I quickly fell in love with it.
So what if there are more choices? That makes it better. Does one prefer kaffeine over mplayer or visa versa? Mozilla Firefox or Konqueror? So there's choices, just pick one that suits you best and try it, or try both if they do a little of each, whatever it takes to satisfy you.

4) It depends on the disto and how old/new it is. I am finding some programs as easy to install as windows. A simple download, install, and use.

5) Printing was a pain until I found the issue. I have black ink only, and it was set up for color. So when I tried to print, it'd go through the actions, like it is printing, but the paper was always blank.
A simple fix in the config, and it works great!