With much talk recently about this and that distro, here is a consolidated place to trash any distro. In other words, if you are going to talk trash about any distro do it here and keep it out of other threads.
Format to Follow:
Distro Name and Version
Name your problem.
Talk all the trash it takes to get it out of your system.
Example:
openSuse 10.1
Broken package manager.
It went through something like 10 alpha + beta + rc versions and at the end of it all they still managed to release the final official version with a bug as crucial as a broken package manager. This is just the most fantastic place to be, especially when your wireless card isn't supported out of the box and you need to get drivers for it from the repos. So you can't run an update to the newer (fixed) version of the package manager because the old one won't do it, and you can't install your wireless drivers to compute in comfort. The official suse forum/help had little to no mention of the problem and even less solution threads/posts. Way to go Suse. Release a broken product and don't even tell us how to fix it!
Ubuntu (all versions and clones including kubuntu, mint, and to a lesser degree xubuntu)
Too slow!
They had a great idea. An easy to use distro which works on a lot of stuff out of the box. Good job! But then they picked i386 as their arch of choice. WHY!? Nobody these days (or even in 2005 when the distro started) really uses Pentium (or lower) computers! Even Pentium 2 / MMX are capable of i586 so why not go with it, still runs on a crapload of hardware, but is way more optimized to actually use most of my cpu's features to run faster with better floating point calculations and mmx and sse extensions and all that. As of the last few releases they've been using the "generic" kernel as opposed to i386...but the apps are still all i386 and the kernel is still really slow and highly unoptimized. Ubuntu devs: just because MS decided that slower computer response is the new norm with Vista... the rest of us still want speed (relatively speaking) so if you want to get my attention with your product at least make it perform to spec with other modern OSes.
Format to Follow:
Distro Name and Version
Name your problem.
Talk all the trash it takes to get it out of your system.
Example:
openSuse 10.1
Broken package manager.
It went through something like 10 alpha + beta + rc versions and at the end of it all they still managed to release the final official version with a bug as crucial as a broken package manager. This is just the most fantastic place to be, especially when your wireless card isn't supported out of the box and you need to get drivers for it from the repos. So you can't run an update to the newer (fixed) version of the package manager because the old one won't do it, and you can't install your wireless drivers to compute in comfort. The official suse forum/help had little to no mention of the problem and even less solution threads/posts. Way to go Suse. Release a broken product and don't even tell us how to fix it!
Ubuntu (all versions and clones including kubuntu, mint, and to a lesser degree xubuntu)
Too slow!
They had a great idea. An easy to use distro which works on a lot of stuff out of the box. Good job! But then they picked i386 as their arch of choice. WHY!? Nobody these days (or even in 2005 when the distro started) really uses Pentium (or lower) computers! Even Pentium 2 / MMX are capable of i586 so why not go with it, still runs on a crapload of hardware, but is way more optimized to actually use most of my cpu's features to run faster with better floating point calculations and mmx and sse extensions and all that. As of the last few releases they've been using the "generic" kernel as opposed to i386...but the apps are still all i386 and the kernel is still really slow and highly unoptimized. Ubuntu devs: just because MS decided that slower computer response is the new norm with Vista... the rest of us still want speed (relatively speaking) so if you want to get my attention with your product at least make it perform to spec with other modern OSes.
