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Why I hate UNIX

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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)
  • forward slashes in file names (this is a killer for those being used to backslashes)
  • 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 !!!)