We all know about Microsoft's latest OS, so I won't rehash. A lot of us intensely dislike it, to put it politely. Those of us who can, use other operating systems. This is Soylent, so let's focus on the one that is the most important to us: Linux.
I have been using Windows as my OS since right after Atari times. A few years ago I bought an ARM (ARMHF/ARMv7) netbook and put Lubuntu on it. I had problems with my first Linux experience, mainly in the area of installing software: missing packages in Synaptic, small dependency hells, installing a package at a time by hand, some broken stuff. I put it down mainly to the architecture I have been using, which can't be supported as well as x86-64.
Now, we all know that no software is perfect, and neither is Linux, even though it is now my main OS. We support it in spirit and financially, but there is always room for improvement.
So, the question is: What are your problems with Linux and how can we fix them? How do we better it? Maybe it's filesystems, maybe it's the famous/infamous systemd. Let's have at it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Aiwendil on Wednesday February 22 2017, @11:24AM
I agree, my main issue is it trying to do too much behind the scenes without clear and verbosive output.
There is a reason why none of my desktop machines (excepting the RPi with kodi) boots into a gui, and why my normal desktop is free of icons - it is normally more timeeffecient to just read the complete documentation of a program than to piecemeal try to find how you turn off all the annoyances.