Why I hate UNIX

The Why I hate UNIX Page

This is a page which contains random entries about what sucks in Unix, weather it is Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris...

It's mainly used as a reminder what we should do better before World Domination with Voyager [tm]

• Keyboard Layout in Xorg. Why does it have to be so hard...
• SSH & Terminals/TERMCAP: Aaaaaaaaaaargh (backspace, delete...)
• copy/paste: Qt way, GTK way, X way - copying highlighted text to the clipboard is very annoying
• unix commands like cp and mv (cla loves the good old CMD commands!)
• no consistent GUI concept (lets stick to CUA and/or anything advanced to that, possibly enhance them !)
• drivers or settings compiled into the kernel (uurg - stoneage)
• mount a floppy/CD(/USB stick ?) to access it
• no drive letters or something adequate (something like this must be there for those being used to it)
  • the last two points need to be optional, I hate drive letters by now :) But yes, many people know just that so emulate it optionally
• forward slashes in file names (this is a killer for those being used to backslashes)
  • same story, both must be possible
• case sensitive filenames (what is this good for ?)
• confusing directory tree with too many standard directories (requires too much knowledge, better use less standard dirs, better use env vars to point to certain directories !!!)

What I like about UNIX

Why not thinking also about the good items: (possibly we make another page of this?):

• boot/driver messages logged to a file (won-der-ful ! want this!)
• symbolic links (not implemented as files like in wincrap, but in the filesystem, or maybe with FUSE)
• mount partitions to empty directories (but: better go for FUSE to have something TVFS alike)
• piping output of commands into env vars (shell feature)