New article in the Economist criticizing Linux usability

[Tyler Aviss]

this is definitely a long-term PITA in linux, and was fixed for drives by
using UIDS, and NIC's with "persistent-net-interfaces" being generated by
udev.

Of course, windows also has similar stupidity. Ever insert a USB HDD and
not find the drive because the OS assigned out the same drive-letter as an
existing network mapping?
On Apr 9, 2012 9:41 AM, "Michael Galea" <michaelgalea-4VtgCsEi+FIybS5Ee8rs3A at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 08/04/12 01:51 AM, Matt Seburn wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 10:10 PM, charles chris<cccharlz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> They may need Skype to work with an internal webcam:  We need hacks here!
>>>
>> I use Skype with an internal webcam on linux regularly...
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> I added a webcam recently.  Unfortunately it was on the system that
> provided my
> mythtv backend.  I was happy until the next boot when device enumeration
> ordered
> the webcam first and I lost a tuner.
> MythTv wasn't too communicative about the failure, either.  Help offered
> by Mythtv
> walks  you through configuring udev..
>
> If linux needs hacks, they are usability hacks that would address problems
> like this
> for less sophisticated users.
>
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