Because I spent too long on the lottery machine yesterday...

[sally_maria]

One of the big advantages of open source is that if you don't like something you can fix it, or pay someone to fix it for you. So, if you'd won the Euro lottery (£117 million), what little "quirks" of your favourite distro or software would you pay someone to fix?

What projects would you donate to?

Comments

[sally_maria]

Yes, that is a very forward thinking view. I'm afraid my replies would be much more self-centred, perhaps because I've never actually had a significant problem getting Linux to work with any of my hardware. (Sheer luck, in most cases.)

The GIMP seems to be capable of some wonderful things, but also missing some features that Windows programs have made standard - the hazard as well as the advantage of developers working on what they want, I suppose.

[ratcreature]

I've used linux exclusively since the mid-1990s so by now suppose I'm pretty much used to the program quirks that I barely notice. (Except glitchy clipboard, I'd definitely donate fixing that under Gnome, so that it works at least as well as the KDE one). But otherwise besides the graphics stuff my demands on my computer are very modest. Mostly I need a decent browser, email, emacs for a text editor, a decent media player and every now and then a word processor for writing some letter. So my frustrations mostly happen in the rare instances when I can afford some new hardware and it doesn't work right away, or a few times not at all.

[sally_maria]

That makes sense. I've only been a Linux user for a year or so, and while I'd never want to go back to Windows full time there are still a few things I miss. Whereas pretty much all the hardware I already had, or bought making sure it would work.