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posted by on Wednesday February 22 2017, @09:56AM   Printer-friendly
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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @01:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @01:03PM (#470135)

    Yeah, part of what made Windows successful, back before Microsoft got incompetent, was their effort to keep old stuff working, up to emulating bugs of earlier versions just for the few old applications that rely on the wrong behaviour. Basically, you could be almost certain that if your software ever worked on any version of Windows (or DOS), it would work on the current version as well.

    And the biggest issue with Gnome 3 was not the new user interface, but the fact that it basically made it impossible to install Gnome 2 programs on any computer running Gnome 3.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @12:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @12:02AM (#470526)

    No, it was the user interface that had more buttons but less options.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:04AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 23 2017, @03:04AM (#470572)
      No, the biggest problem is that there are so many big problems that it gets hard to decide which ones are the biggest :).