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As much as I love Linux and will unlikely ever switch back to Windows, the number of bugs I come up against and find myself just having to live with until they are eventually fixed, can be somewhat frustrating at times.

I thought it would be nice to place where people can list all the bugs that you've given up finding a workaround and are currently putting up with until such time as a fix makes it's way into the repositories. This allows for a good old gripe, but also with the pagerank that Superuser has, might also help people googling for their problem determine that they do indeed have a known bug.

So be descriptive, state the version of the distro you're running and make sure you provide links to bugtracker entries and relevant forum post. I reckon post all your bugs in the one post. Then you might get some sympathy votes :P

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You're basically living with every bug that's out there if you're actually using Linux. It's a very vague question, I have to say. – alex Nov 18 at 10:07
+1 Indeed Alex :-) – joe Nov 18 at 10:10
Really? I mean things that behave in a way they shouldn't and that you have to deal with on a regular basis. When I first switched to linux, I had to live without full screen flash video for quite a while before it was fixed. That kind of thing. – humble coffee Nov 18 at 10:33
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I agree with the above as well. The only "point" of this will be to make a list of bugs, which are not only different for each distribution, but different for each user and configuration. Doesn't really have a point besides "group complaint therapy". – Gnoupi Nov 18 at 10:48
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Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered! – Diago♦ Nov 18 at 11:00
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closed as not a real question by alex, Gnoupi, joe, ~quack, Diago♦ Nov 18 at 11:00
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I couldn't find a single web browser that is able to print web pages. The ones based on Gecko have a bug that incorrectly lays out characters when anti-aliasing is switched on (for some fonts), and Konqueror and Opera truncate the printout.

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Not a linux-related issue in itself, rather a browser one? – Gnoupi Nov 18 at 10:26
@gnoupi: if firefox on windows doesn't exhibit the problem and firefox on linux does, the problem is generally seen as a linux problem, even if the root cause is really some distribution's compile options. you're right that it's (probably) not a problem with the kernel, but this is one case where "linux" clearly refers to the OS as a whole. – ~quack Nov 18 at 10:44
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No BSODs. I miss them.

Once in a while I can coax my machine into a hard kernel halt, but it's just not the same.

I've submitted bug reports and patches to implement BSODs to the kernel list, but they're always ignored.

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BSOD in Linux? Blasphemy! I'm a big fan of kernel panics in Mac OS X, myself :) – alex Nov 18 at 11:07
+1 for the sarcasm :-D – torbengb Nov 18 at 14:10
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Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala 64 bit

  1. Flash is not accepting/responding to mouse clicks. This seems to be across all browsers. I try watching a YouTube video and I can't even pause/start it. This is pretty damn annoying. A simple workaround for me at least is pressing middle click while doing all other mouse clicks. Launchpad entry.

  2. When using Compiz and FGLRX driver for ATI graphics cards, windows lag for a bit before restoring smoothly. I'm only experiencing a small lag, but it's noticeable. People are reporting between 1-3 seconds. Launchpad entry.

  3. Firefox 3.5 and OpenOffice render using anti-aliasing (ie is fuzzy and looks like cleartype for Windows) even though the Gnome display preferences are set to not do this. Launchpad entry.

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Slow I/O. :( Using a Linux OS that is doing intensive I/O as desktop is a pain.

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