Things I already hate about Kubuntu - geekdom

[Terry North]

Terry North <terrencenorth <at> yahoo.com.au> writes:

I filed this originally as feedback.  Maybe it was the wrong place.

I came to Ubuntu with an open mind.  I believe it's currently of interest
to many people because it's relatively new.  I have doubts about whether
that interest will be sustained because, as my experience shows, the
system is NOT user-friendly.  I'm just an ordinary user who has had to
learn more than I wanted to know just because of the shortcomings of
various systems, beginning with the claimant to 90 odd % of the market.

To get things into perspective, a small share of computer users have
adopted Linux.  A small share of that small share are using Ubuntu, and
good luck to them.

I like Ubuntu's independence.  The commercial distros, from what I've seen,
do a better job.  I was hoping Ubuntu could give them a run for their money. 
Right now, judging from a lot of the comments, it looks as though it's in
the hands of an elite who are content to exclude the great bulk of users and
resent anyone telling them there are better ways of doing things.  I'm
willing to work with it but I doubt that I'm typical.

I think a lot of people like to set things up the way that suits them.  They
have colour and font preferences and like different styles.  They want to
install different software.  Not many people want to spend hours researching
man pages (finding them at all can be time-consuming), experimenting with
commands, getting them wrong and playing around until they're right.  I'm glad
to have tools that simplify the process and reduce the time required.  I've
got a system that's a pleasure to work with.  I hate it when I have to go back
to Windoze to access an old file.  I'd like to find a non-commercial system
that measures up to or even surpasses what I've got.