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 Gaaark on Wednesday February 22 2017, @12:26PM
I've used Linux since 2000ish:
I'm on Arch now with xfce and i3wm, and am happy. Is Linux perfect? No.
Do I find it better than windows? Hell yes. Windows just feels clunky to me. The work windows is locked down to unusability, the software (Office mostly) can fuck up files between releases because they want to fuck with Libre office compatibility (hey, let's fuck the user in order to keep market share).
I plug a Linux/windows compatible printer into my Linux box and I am printing in seconds: plug it into Windows and you reboot and reboot and reboot......
No thanks. But yes, coordination of efforts is needed.... I was hoping Ubuntu was that effort, but it has gotten derailed a bit.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @01:11PM
You can use LibreOffice with Microsoft Windows. I do, and have for years. As for printing, I haven't had to had to reboot after adding a printer since Windows XP.
There are certainly many valid criticisms of both Microsoft and Windows, but those two aren't it.