Comment 50 for bug 1771880

I am still having the same issue, along with many others issues lol... I have stopped trying to find any useful answers, as most sources seem content with being in control, obfuscating, complaining about people's questions or just plain bullying.

I actually saw this as advice in a 'support forum' (an oxymoron):
User: "I can't get 'x' to work properly"
'Support' User: "You can uninstall it by typing ...."
Is NOT a solution, no matter how dense you are.

In the future, software will be developed when people feel like it. Bugs which plague modern systems will only be fixed if we act like sycophants, otherwise some of us will have the unique opportunity to discuss these various and endemic plague of software bugs which our grandchildren, no doubt, will also experience.

Encryption software that doesn't encrypt; the poisonous sprawl of large-scale software projects managed by children and professional mini-nazis; file managers which can't mount drives; Error messages which never see the light of day, ever perpetuating everyone's desire to run a stable system; puerile arguments between projects, leaving the fallout for the end users to deal with; Non-existent documentation; When Developers basically say: "But I want it to work MY way, NOT the NORMAL, EXPECTED, AVERAGE way!"... Oh, this project has moved.... (Yet again... But we're leaving the old, inaccurate web site and forum up from 2011 to soil relevant search results"; Regularly requiring specific system/software information from end users posting reports, but offer said users NO framework for doing so... The list of mistakes and lapses of care goes on.

Open source = Unfinished; buggy; elitist/out-of-touch/narcissistic developers. I mean, this stuff is written in people's 'free time'... What can we expect, really? A cohesive development and debugging roadmap? lol

I haven't found anything useful on a support forum for years and have, sadly, grown accustomed to the modern Linux staples of the 'workaround' and the 'do without, then'.

On one hand you have Microsoft advertising on your paid-for desktop, or you have a bunch of part-timers making out that they're the best thing since sliced bread... Humanity is embarrassing.

And I will leave you all with this absolute gem from the MIT OS license...

"THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE."

Basically: It's your own fault if you trust this software to do anything remotely useful. The author is not responsible for anything that goes wrong.

This is one of the modern standards in production quality we have to look forward to.

TL;DR: Don't expect all FOSS developers to even remotely consider the quality of their software or their support, these ad-hoc organisations have no charter and no legal responsibility to their end users. And, as always, don't use Linux if your income depends on a stable, available and working IT system - Most Linux distros are STILL 90% 'under construction'.