
Some Open Source communities really suck. Imagine GNOME 3, "modern" desktop environment. You want to use something as trivial as volume change keyboard keys. But the step is too high, instead of 2% increase in volume with each press you get +10%. You'd think that solving it is as easy as changing one global variable, well, nope! You read in the issue in their tracker a lot of people complaining, some pull requests denied. Why? Because they have their "terrific" algorithm and they know better than their users (of course one hidden global variable is going to destroy simplicity!), so basically it was clear to me that what they mean is "*cut* off, that's yours problem, get used to it or get out". It was this time when I realized how often Linux makes you solve problems non-existent in any other platforms and its creators care more about their ideologies than about users. They'll say I've sold my soul to a corporation, well, at least I don't have to wake up every morning wondering what wonderful irritating problems I'll need to solve today in order to install a *cut* game or an application I precisely need which has no alternatives or how am I going to struggle the whole day to get a 15-minute solution to a not-OS related problem finally working.