This is gnome locking up on me, because I opened a not so large file (14mb).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/berlinbrown/750473492/

And Windows doesn't lock up?  Proprietary software sucks, too.

It's really all your fault. When will you learn?

http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/When-will-users-learn.aspx

Bot, as picky as you can be about things, I am surprised that you have the gall to make such a headline.  How about instead saying something like:
To me, today, while I am the one having the problem, open-source sucks.

It's free software, not commercial, no need for blind taste-test comparisons.

Plus, you really expect us to believe it's not a nightly or unstable build that you are using?

FWIW, to my mind, an evangelist shouldn't be looking for things to b*tch about, should be looking for things to fix that other users b*tch about.  OTW, it's a mixed message/signal that is being sent out.  Unless the message is to be picky and b*tch about anything you don't like.

Double clicking from the file browser is so noob. Windows would so the same thing if IE is associated with the file's extension. Any nerd will tell you to use 'less' to open large files.

To me, when something is free, performance and reliability do not matter.

Actually being able to at least try to install/run something though, that obviously makes a huge difference in usability.

It's the whole, oh, connect to svn, download source, build it yourself (if you have a compatible environment, because we hate MSVC++ so fuck you for using it) and then hope you can run it.

What kind of numbskull thinks users should have to know a damned thing about a compiler or build tools?!

I really don't care if you want to excuse it with 'well, yeah, but you have to compile for different platforms... yada yada...' and neither do the vast majority of users.

As in the previous rant, I realize not everything follows this pattern. Either a whole helluva lot does though, or I've just been unlucky lately.