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from the it's-already-perfect-is-not-the-right-answer dept.
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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 22 2017, @06:10PM
But...you can HAVE that with Linux. You want Arch, Gentoo, Slackware, or some minimal Debian install, then just {emerge|pacman|apt-get|bloody well do it yourself} your packages.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday February 22 2017, @06:22PM
But looping the argument back around to the original topic, now we got systemd instead and any time someone whips out the linux desktop meme the handwringing over KDE and gnome begin, despite my desktops having nothing to do with and no interest at all in either.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 22 2017, @06:30PM
Arch has a non-systemd package set in the AUR if i remember right. Gentoo/Funtoo are OpenRC by default. Not sure what Slack does but I'm told it's not systemd. And BSD is its own thing entirely, something like Gentoo's British cousin with a surprisingly high IQ.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:31AM
Slack is still using sysvinit, but hasn't committed to not including it in a future release. Slack is notoriously slow on updating its core; it only got pulse a version or two ago because its too tangled in the stack these days.
Still always moving