quirks

OStatic: "There's another alternative for those needing a basic video editor. Open Movie Editor seems plain compared to Kino, but works with more file formats (with fewer hassles).

It has a Jahshaka-like interface, without its occasional installation quirks."

It’s true that Ubuntu has some quirks for the user switching from XP, but I’ve found these quirks to be a byproduct of 15 years of Windows use - not any inherent problem with Ubuntu itself.

In fact, once I get used to the Ubuntu way of doing things, they’re almost universally better.

LCD Monitor Configuration In X.Org . Handy, though I noticed the Linux Mint default look is stunning, I'm planning on changing over to their distribution soon, they seem to have quite a lot of the UI quirks all ...

I tried Vector Linux, a slackware based distro, known to be fast and stable, ideal for older machines like mine and yet never compromising on the features...Once all the initial quirks are resolved (especially the xorg issue), VL is a really solid distro.

It is fast as expected from Xfce.

I'm a power business user who has enough technical background to use the command line and utilities, so Ubuntu didn't scare me. However, there were a few quirks that I ran into.

"In light of my chronic Mac problems I decided that I would take a shot at Ubuntu running on a Thinkpad X300.

However there were a few quirks that I ran into. I had to reinstall Pidgin 3 times, Firefox would crash every few minutes.

These are not things the average user can deal with gracefully."

...it’s true that Mac OS X tries hard to make everything easier for the users, but some quirks are plain illogical - there are a lot of cases where security or system stability is sacrificed in order to hide some technical part of the system.

Many of us computer users suffer in silence. Yes, there are the outspoken people we see complaining on message boards, but in general, we put up with the quirks of applications because the alternatives are not ...

Rahul Sundaram takes a look at the Guidelines for Free System Distributions.

"I have been spending the last couple of weeks talking to them about clarifying where exactly they are drawing the lines on what constitutes a free system beyond just software and today, FSF just again proved to be quite reasonable by publishing the free system distribution guidelines based on the Fedora licensing guidelines.

The openSUSE team is proud to announce the second Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! New changes include countless bug fixes, as well as the import of the new openSUSE 11.0 artwork for login, splash screens and more.

The live installation should work, but there are several known quirks, so be sure to check the most annoying bugs list before...