"The goals for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS are for it to be a bug-free operating system"

Yeah, that sounds great, but we all know Ubuntu 10.04 won't be bug-free. Type some text in OpenOffice.org Writer, then select the text you've entered and copy it to the clipboard. Now close OpenOffice.org and try to paste the text in Gedit. This just doesn't work, because you can't paste something after you've closed OpenOffice.org. After closing OpenOffice.org the clipboard is completely empty. Linux users have been waiting for years for a clipboard that really works (not something like Glipper).

There are also some bugs in Nautilus which exist for years now. Configure Nautilus to use List View, instead of Icon View. In List View it's impossible to select files by pressing the left mouse button, holding the left mouse button and then dragging a frame above the files you want to select.

In List View it's also impossible to do a right click in white space if the window if full of files. So, let's say you've got enough room on your screen to fit 30 files in a window of Nautilus in List View. If there are 29 files in a directory, there's still some white space left at the bottom of the screen, so you can right click in this white space to get the context menu to create a new directory or to create an empty file or to paste some file you've copied somewhere else. Now, if there are 30 files in the directory, there's no more white space to click with your right mouse button, so you can't create a new directory, a new file or paste some file in the directory you're currently looking at.

Something else which is really annoying is the mouse behavior in Ubuntu (I don't know if it's Gnome or X which causes the annoying behavior). I'm talking about doing a click with the right mouse button in Ubuntu. When you press the right mouse button, the context menu is immediately shown and if you hold the right mouse button down, you can select an item of the context menu and then release the right mouse button and the selected menu item will be selected. This is really annoying if you've got a mouse with a very high DPI. It's almost impossible to not move the mouse a little bit when doing a right click. You'll always move the mouse a few micrometers when clicking. A mouse with a very high DPI detects this movement, so the mouse pointer is moved one or two pixels, so the first menu item in the context menu is already selected before you've released the right mouse button, which causes the first menu item to be activated.
The following happens to me several times a day:
- Right click in the tab bar of Firefox > a new tab is created;
- Right click on a link in Firefox > link opens in a new window;
- Right click on the desktop > a new folder is created;
- Right click in Nautilus > a new folder is created;
- Right click on a file > the file is opened;
- Right click on a directory > the directory is opened.

These bugs are so annoying and they've been plaguing Ubuntu and other Linux distributions for years now. After all of those years (some bugs were already reported in 2002, years before the first release of Ubuntu!!!) the progress is still zero. In all of those years there haven't been any progress at all.

The new design of Ubuntu is really nice. I really like it and it makes Ubuntu look way more professional. Only downside, after using Ubuntu some time, you'll encounter those really annoying bugs which still aren't fixed after all of those years. Then you'll know only the looks are professional, but some of the underlying code is some really bad written code.

Please, developers, do something to get these bugs finally fixed! They're driving the users insane and causes them to reinstall Windows or buy a Mac. I already bought a Mac, because those bugs were driving me insane. I really love my Mac and Mac OS X, but I still keep installing the latest releases (including alphas, betas and release candidates) of Ubuntu in Virtual Box to see if it gets any better. Unfortunately I can only see graphical improvements. The underlying code is still the same amateuristic code and the annoying bugs still exist.

If Ubuntu (and Linux in general) really wants more than the 1% market share they now have, they've really got to fix those bugs. Otherwise people will always go back to Windows or buy a Mac after using Ubuntu (or another Linux distribution) for some time. I really can't recommend Ubuntu to people I know. First get the bugs fixed, then I'll start to recommend people to install Ubuntu.

ha ha your computer is broken mate....its not the OS.......By the way Are you a Micro
Soft agent???? cos you wrote too much :)

No offense intended, but the "right-click" problem you have is actually because the Gnome right-click works differently from Windows. The right-click menu appears on mousedown, so you can actually press+hold the right mouse button down, then move the mouse over your desired right-click menu item and release. It is rather handy if you know how to use it.

If it is really frustrating you and you can't change your habits, then try a newer version of firefox (they've shifted the right-click menu down a few pixels so it's harder to accidentally "mouseup" a menu item if you unintentionally release the right mouse button too soon) or Opera where they've changed the way right-click works altogether. I'm not sure there is an alternative for Gnome desktop that will allow you to keep your windows habits? Maybe try a non-Gnome window manager?

@Ubuntu user:

WTF? What a ridiculous reply. It's NOT my computer, but it definately IS the OS. Everyone can reproduce the steps on every PC with Ubuntu installed and everyone who does exactly what I've written in my reply will encounter the bugs. Shall I come to your home? Then I'll show the bugs on your own computer.

Take a look at the reply of gius. He at least understands what I'm talking about or do you think his computer is also broken? It's NOT the computer, it's the OS.

@jake:

You don't have to tell me how right clicking works in Ubuntu. As you can see I know how it works, because I already explained how it works in my initial reply. But the way right clicking works in Ubuntu is annoying and a lot of people complain about this behavior and I see other people in my neighborhood encountering this bug time after time. I've got friends and family who use Ubuntu and everytime I see them working on the computer, I see them unintentionally creating new folders on the desktop.

No, Firefox isn't the problem. The problem is the right click behavior and this annoying behavior occurs system wide, not only in the browser. After installing another browser I'll still unintentionally create folders on the desktop. Gnome just has to have an option to display the context menu at mouse up, instead of mouse down. That's all that needs to happen.

I am running 10.04 alpha 2 on my macbook and I am quite happy - even at alpha stage I have not come across any crashes so far. I removed OSX altogether now and have no regrets so far.

The artwork reminds my of OSX, not sure it is a wise decision to go violet instead of brown, but first thing you is changing the theme anyway, no? ;-)

@linux-user
i completely agree with your opinion about the bugs not fixed or features not implemented...
Your analisis is very good and objective.
I like Gnome, and still prefer to KDE, but i consider nautilus a great limit for it, if compared to dolphin which contains many more features with a higher semplicity.

The file manager is one of the most important part of an O.S., why they don't realize it?

let's cross our fingers for the future releases.

I am using 9.10 on Acer Aspire 5580 and don't find any bugs like Linux-user did.

yea Im running Ubuntu 9.10 on my HP dv7 laptop and I do not find all the bugs that Mr. Linux user said the only one that I did find was to not be able to right clicking on an empty space on list view but you can easily solve that by clicking file create new folder if you want to create a new folder I think his configuration is wrong or something like that but it doesn't have to do whit the OS

Do I really have to take screenshots of every single step for you people to be able to reproduce these bugs? I always thought Linux users were a lot smarter than Windows users, but the number of dumb Linux users is really increasing.

I know what I'm talking about. The bugs I described have nothing to do with software configuration (although it's possible to work around the copy/paste bug by using a clipboard manager) or hardware configuration (although the right click bug which activates the first menu item in the list depends on the DPI of the mouse and thus doesn't occur when using a touch pad).

If Linux users are really that dumb they can't even reproduce a bug and think it has something to do with my configuration, I'll take screenshots for them.

Lucid beta is very buggy. Someone thought it would be a good idea to make only 1 workspace on the bottom right and so making the whole feature completely useless. When I try to open preferences to fix it and then *every* panel applet crashes.

The new theme is terrible...especially the wallpaper. The lighting literally hurts my eyes after looking at it for more than 3 seconds.

Definitely not even alpha quality...Canonical needs to find some real artists/UI experts. Whoever is doing it right now should find some other line of work.

Well, that's my opinion, anyway. =(

two install at 3 months and every time - bugs and not solved problems! I love ubuntu but for LTS release the bugs are too match. We continue with ubuntu:) Grub is crashed, or repositories, or upgrading not working... Themes are not modern!

Linux User is right about those bugs, tho in some cases it's just a matter of changing what you do to work around them. I've only had occasional problems with the right-click but that would depend on the mechanics of the mouse. The problem of having no space to right click in List View is really annoying; I've been meaning to go find out where to report a bug for that but I guess I needn't bother. What I do is click 'up directory', and then Nautilus always conveniently shows the directory I came from highlighted; and then I right click and hit 'paste into' (Doesn't work for 'new folder' though, and should not be necessary in any case). If you use any system for a while you learn to work around its limitations, and if you switch to something else, any new limitations of the new system are annoying and you may not notice the limitations of the old are no longer there, since you don't try to do those things. For instance, under Windoze you can't drag a window up over the top of the screen with the mouse - and if it gets up there by itself, which happens sometimes, you can't get it back with just the mouse.
Despite the bugs, I find the ubuntu 'list' view, with its 'active' icons, correctly identified file types, and ability to nest into folders in the same view, and to select files across different levels, to be much more powerful than any Windows view.
A huge issue with windows is the file explorer is constantly launching threads to make thumbnails or whatever for AVI files and things, so you frequently can't rename or move files because they are already open, ('try again later'). That's incredibly annoying and never happens on linux.