Journal AmiMoJo's Journal: Amimojo vs. Linux round 5 1
I've installed Fedora in a VM.
Fedora is the most broken distro so far. I installed Chrome x64 and it won't even open. Just hangs and then closes. I tried Chromium too, via Software Manager, and it does the same thing.
The software manager has lots of duplicate entries. It has "Recommended Graphics Applications" twice, and "Recommended Productivity Applications" twice.
The UI, GNOME 3, is batshit. There are no window controls except close! How do you minimize a window?
I'm starting to think that Linux is hopeless on the desktop. My various Pi servers are all great, Debian via SSH, but desktop... It's just broken.
VMs have their own problems (Score:2)
VMs often have to be patched to play nicely with the latest and greatest, and the not-so-greatest. It's the nature of the beast. That being said, there's a lot of suckage going around as people chase the new shiny instead of concentrating on making it as simple and bullet-proof as possible. Best example to date was Unity.
Best bet might be to find an older version of a distro and install it on bare metal. It can't be worse, right? It's not like newer ones bring anything essential to the table.