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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: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday February 22 2017, @02:07PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday February 22 2017, @02:07PM (#470157) Journal
    Does it finally get the buttons in dialog boxes the correct way around, or does it still copy Windows? HCI documentation used to recommend that for left-to-right reading order locales you put the forward option on the right and the backwards option on the left, but the converse in right-to-left reading order locales. More recent research shows that it's actually independent of reading order and the proceed option should always be on the right. This is made even worse by the fact that pretty much every web browser has forward and back buttons that are the right way around, so you have a glaring inconsistency where back is left, forward is right, but okay is left and cancel is right.
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  • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday February 22 2017, @04:14PM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Wednesday February 22 2017, @04:14PM (#470241) Homepage Journal

    That is based on the window style, which is customizable. Arguably the default still copies Windows, but it is more about continuing the KDE tradition nowadays. I hear you can use non-default style [kde.org] to switch the button locations.