I have recently switched to Ubuntu because some of my RAM sticks are defect (6000+ errors in memtest) and Windows doesn’t like that. Although Ubuntu looks nice at the first glance, it isn’t as user-friendly as they say. There is lots of bugs and annoying parts. Software that exist for both Windows and Ubuntu doesn’t behave in the same way. Here are some of my issues and opinions:

Authentications
Why? I can understand it’s needed for security because some users are retarded to run every little program they get their hands on. But! Why do I have to login twice? Once to login, and once to unlock the key-ring? Why do I have to authenticate twice just to change network proxy settings? Why do I have to authenticate to connect to a network? Why do I have to authenticate to use Empathy? Even if I enable auto-login, I still have to authenticate to the key-ring. So I can chose either login twice or once, meh.

Windows doesn’t have this password issue, because, well, it doesn’t use passwords in other ways than login. I never had any security problems in Windows ever, because I know not to run every single .exe I find. Linux assumes the user is retarded to do this. (Well I’ve been told that the authentications exist so programs can’t rm -rf / your hdd etc).

Clipboard
Why is the clipboard so annoying? Why do the clipboard erase if I close the application I copied the text from? Do I have to have every application constantly running to ensure I don’t lose any data? I am using the clipboard in Windows very often and I close Firefox when I don’t need it, because it annoys me to have apps running when I don’t need them. I often have text in my clipboard that I might want to use later. Sometimes I close Firefox in reflex and then that URL I just copied is lost. Clipboard managers like parcellite doesn’t do their job very good. The history is there, except that the clipboard is still erased when I close the origin application. How much RAM can some text really use? Say I copy a 10KB text (which would be how many characters? 10 240?) I can’t see it taking up too much RAM when I have 4GB? Most users have at least 1GB haven’t they? Right now only 600MB RAM is used.

Chat
Why doesn’t Empathy login to chat services automatically on system start? Why do I have to authenticate for it to login to chat services? I am one of those that forget to login to msn etc if the computer does it for me.

Startup applications
“Automatically remember running applications when logging out”. Then why not start them next time you login? What’s the point of remembering them if they do not start at next login…

Firefox
Why doesn’t Firefox behave like Firefox on windows? You have to click 3 times in the navigation bar instead of one in Windows. Not everyone know how to use about:config and what to change. Not so user friendly there.

Why doesn’t backspace go back a page like it does in Windows? Again not everyone know how to use about:config.

Why doesn’t auto-complete URL work? Or, why doesn’t it exist? The key to add to about:config in windows doesn’t work in Ubuntu.

Random bugs
Why does the notification area move to a random position with every start? Why does the panel that says my account name (the one with a speech bubble) replace the shutdown button from time to time? Why does Ubuntu complain that the hdd is corrupt, when I can ignore it by pressing i? I have run tests and it shows the hdd is healthy.

Until these things are fixed, I am gonna say Ubuntu has a long way to go to be as user-friendly as Windows is.