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Manu wrote:
> It's certainly missed in my professional environment, but even 
> outside
> that, it's still super handy and saves a lot of time. 
> Particularly if you
> are in the habit of using it.
> Do you remember when you first got a mouse with a mouse wheel? 
> You thought
> it was kinda cool, but I'll bet you didn't use it that much... 
> you weren't
> in the habit of it.
> Have you tried to use a mouse without a mouse wheel recently? 
> ... it's like
> that.

Yes, I agree. My point wasn't that it isn't a convenience, only 
that linux tech companies with the ability to implement it 
probably haven't seen it as a worth-while effort (financially 
speaking) in the past, due to it not effecting their development 
practices as much as it may effects other industries (like major 
game creators).

I hope, as I'm sure you do, that, due to Valve's interest in 
Linux, better debugging features will be seen as more of a 
priority. It will be a brighter day for Linux when engine 
designers of AAA game companies don't have anything to complain 
about when it comes to developing on Linux ;)


> Linux UI still feels largely like a facade to me. If ANYTHING 
> goes wrong,
> you are back at square 1, if you're not an expert, you probably 
> can't fix it.

I recommend trying Elementary OS sometime (also, keep an eye on 
Manjaro). There are surely more automatic self-correcting feature 
on Windows, but Linux is getting better here I think. There has 
simply been more man-hours put into consumer-level features on 
Windows.


> I still think the biggest problem by far is that only an expert 
> can fix it
> when anything goes wrong. And things *always* go wrong.

I think you may be exaggerating a bit. I've never had any 
outstanding issues with distro's like Unbuntu on my machine, but 
then, it's subject a lot to the quality of your drivers, which 
sometimes get neglected a bit due to linux's lack of popularity 
in the desktop consumer space. I've had good success installing 
on Intel laptops, for instance, and bad experience installing on 
AMD laptops. But I think you'd find the same was probably true 
(or worse) with Mac. Which is why I mentioned the only way to 
sell Linux would be to put it in a fancy box and paint it's face 
with some expensive advertising (just like Mac and Sony do with 
BSD, only someone needs to do it more openly).

I do agree, there are some areas Linux needs more time to bake, 
the Display Server is a good example (and PulseAudio), also 
things like more user-friendly Software Centers. But projects 
like Wayland, Gnome, Ubuntu, and Elementary are doing good work, 
and there are some good improvements on the way in the next year 
or two I think.