This is exactly my point. Each individual piece of software, each product, nominally does work very well, and I'll even go as far as to say that they are highly consistent internally. But there is no consistency between even the most common set of applications that the average user is going to need to work with.
I'm not saying that there isn't good software. I'm saying that it doesn't do a good job of playing well together, and that's what it will take for Linux to be a better desktop platform than what Apple currently provides.
And, no, I'm sorry, but those problems do still exist, and are quite prominent.
Consistently functional copy and paste as an Ubuntu improvement has nearly 2500 votes across two requests, which would be enough to put it in their 'Most Popular Improvement Requests, Ever' section if they combined both of the threads: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3118/ , http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4242/
A new user writes that, while they can use the clipboard in most applications, they have no idea how to do it in an xterm (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=772970). Why does it work differently there than it does in Firefox?
Japanese input is such a mess that there's an entire section of the Ubuntu site devoted to it (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JapaneseInput). Why do I need to choose between two input methods? Why doesn't the input work across all applications? Even Windows, which despite Microsoft's largeness in the world has surprisingly bad internationalization, and which I do not like, at least handles this correctly.
I'm not saying that there isn't good software. I'm saying that it doesn't do a good job of playing well together, and that's what it will take for Linux to be a better desktop platform than what Apple currently provides.
And, no, I'm sorry, but those problems do still exist, and are quite prominent.
Consistently functional copy and paste as an Ubuntu improvement has nearly 2500 votes across two requests, which would be enough to put it in their 'Most Popular Improvement Requests, Ever' section if they combined both of the threads: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3118/ , http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4242/
A new user writes that, while they can use the clipboard in most applications, they have no idea how to do it in an xterm (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=772970). Why does it work differently there than it does in Firefox?
Japanese input is such a mess that there's an entire section of the Ubuntu site devoted to it (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JapaneseInput). Why do I need to choose between two input methods? Why doesn't the input work across all applications? Even Windows, which despite Microsoft's largeness in the world has surprisingly bad internationalization, and which I do not like, at least handles this correctly.