Humans don't think terminal shells are good user interfaces that are easy to understand. Maybe a robot might think that.
The workarounds for these things are usually mess with some random config file, or create some startup script that runs a command that hopefully changes the correct thing. In other words, always hacks that you'll have to write down in some notebook to make sure you can repeat the fix later. But part of the problem is operating system that rely on a pile of shell scripts and config files to work properly are fragile and bad. And part of it is that nobody is actually working on making it better it seems like.
Yes, desktop-Linux-obsessed people tend to ignore the shortcomings of Linux instead of acknowledging that one cannot simply "use Linux". Regular people can barely even use a desktop computer these days let alone one that shows a seizure-inducing boot log on every startup.
I'm not calling you subhuman. It's just a dig at ridiculous out-of-touch tech people that think everyone wants to learn 10 thousand shell commands and spend two hours installing software that has a one page user manual.
I do hope Linux will be usable in the future. But there really isn't much "innovation" in that area right now it seems especially when most Linux distros are so techie-oriented. Operating systems are supposed to have functionality usable by any person. How many Linux distros even have help menus or little info "blips" or things like that?
I had exactly the same problems as you described and was going to give you my workarounds, but
Fuck off. You sound like a god damned nazi.
Humans don't think terminal shells are good user interfaces that are easy to understand. Maybe a robot might think that.
The workarounds for these things are usually mess with some random config file, or create some startup script that runs a command that hopefully changes the correct thing. In other words, always hacks that you'll have to write down in some notebook to make sure you can repeat the fix later. But part of the problem is operating system that rely on a pile of shell scripts and config files to work properly are fragile and bad. And part of it is that nobody is actually working on making it better it seems like.
:PIGPOOPBALLS:
Yes, desktop-Linux-obsessed people tend to ignore the shortcomings of Linux instead of acknowledging that one cannot simply "use Linux". Regular people can barely even use a desktop computer these days let alone one that shows a seizure-inducing boot log on every startup.
Look if you start calling people subhuman you don't deserve tech support form them.
I'm not calling you subhuman. It's just a dig at ridiculous out-of-touch tech people that think everyone wants to learn 10 thousand shell commands and spend two hours installing software that has a one page user manual.
I do hope Linux will be usable in the future. But there really isn't much "innovation" in that area right now it seems especially when most Linux distros are so techie-oriented. Operating systems are supposed to have functionality usable by any person. How many Linux distros even have help menus or little info "blips" or things like that?