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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 PiMuNu on Wednesday February 22 2017, @11:11AM
I have been using Mint for about 5 years now. I was really happy with it, but...
1. In the last three hardware installations in a row, I never managed to get graphics card drivers to work. One is a Dell laptop, one is a home build with some AMD card, one is an Intel NUC. That's okay, but I didn't figure out how to turn off compositing, and the software graphics emulator thing seems to leak memory every time I go into sleep mode.
2. Miscellaneous problems:-
** the desktop on my main installation fell over a couple of weeks ago after I installed the kernel virtualization drivers. I can get to a desktop but the GUI is scrambled enough to make it unusable.
** My NUC install crashes on login 50 % of the time, perhaps for lack of resources (4 GB of RAM is not enough?).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @05:54AM
Ugh, I had a scrambled desktop too after updates. Somehow messing with a font package that doesn't get installed properly (isn't the package manager supposed to check that?) fixes it.