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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 KritonK on Thursday February 23 2017, @11:05AM
Fixed?
You must be using KDE 4.
KDE 5 crashes, freezes and/or displays weird behavior all the time, at least in Fedora. Certain notifications (e.g., deleting a note from the desktop) will consistently freeze plasma, others (e.g., network connection established) may or may not, while others, such as the all too frequent notifications that some component or other has crashed, work fine. Keyboard layouts may work fine on one machine, while on another, similarly configured, will not work when plasma starts, and I have to turn them off and on again before they work.
Basically, my main complaint about Linux as my everyday environment is the same that I have with just about every piece of modern software: they've taken something good that works well, and changed it to something that is less stable, less usable, and, quite often, ugly.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Thursday February 23 2017, @04:06PM
I am thinking the difference is our versions. I haven't used Fedora but Ubuntu has been very stable for me. I am currently on KDE 5.9.2 and I like the direction they are going in.
As per your complaint in 2nd paragraph, my solution was to bite the bullet and go the anti-debian way. I don't use Kate anymore, I use sublime text. I use IntelliJ's CLion for development. These two programs are more stable that linux kernel imho. Same reason why I use ubuntu. I gotta work, man :)
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Friday February 24 2017, @12:20PM
Could very well be.
I have plasma 5.8.5, so perhaps version 5.9 is more stable.
Oddly enough, 5.9.2 (or even 5.8.6 LTS) is not even available in the testing repository yet. Oddly, because the Fedora packages are maintained by one of the KDE people, and usually become available soon after each release.
What did you say you're using? Ubuntu? Hm... Perhaps I should take the plunge, even though apt-land looks like an alien planet to someone used to rpm and yum.
As for where they're going with KDE 5, they seem to be trying to catch up with KDE 4, which had become quite good, despite its shaky start. Given that KDE 4 was a rewrite that was supposed to allow them to move forward, I can't help feeling that the KDE 5 re-rewrite was a step backwards, that had no reason to be taken.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday February 24 2017, @01:38PM
Rewrite is indeed a very bad habit of KDE land. Rudeness and lack of help are secondary bad habits.