Grant Mongardi wrote: > Ok, so this is more of a rant than anything. After several years of using > Debian at work (Debian 9 stretch), and after my LTS version of Linux Mint > at home stopped receiving updates, I decided to upgrade it to Debian 10 > buster. I have to say that this is the worst desktop linux OS I've ever > used. It's as though they went out of their way to make it difficult to > use, customize or manage. Here's what I've encountered so far: > 1. Software Update reboots the computer - seriously, it just rebooted my > computer to install a Firefox update! Who does that?
That doesn't sound like Debian at all. Did you install unattended-upgrades for some reason and tell it to reboot automatically? Tell us what you actually did, please. > 2. Stupid, unmovable, pop-up "favorites" tool bar - this is a toolbar, on > the left side of the screen that pops up when you move your mouse there. Oh, you're using GNOME. Maybe you would be happier with XFCE. > 3. No toolbox that I can find - I've tried installing things in the repo > that would seem to be toolboxes, but to no avail. So now every time I need > to check Slack I have to open it from the main menu. I did figure out I > could add it to favorites and it would be on the stupid tool bar though, so What's a toolbox? > 4. Date, sound, power, and network icons moved to the top > 5. No quick-launch bar that I can find. You're making lots of complaints about GNOME as though it were the operating system. It isn't. > I've been using Debian stretch for years now without any of these issues. > So yeah, I'm pretty upset by this. I can tell. But all of these problems are fixable. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
